Recipe #54: French Breakfast Puffs

Recipe: French Breakfast Puffs

Source: The Pioneer Woman Cooks

Time: 50 minutes

Ease: 3

Taste: 10

Leftover Value: 10

Down the Drain or Keep in the Strainer: Keep it in the Strainer!

The word "puffs" is deceiving.  To me, it indicates that this is a light breakfast item.

While I could possibly eat two in one sitting, they are certainly not light items and therefore do not fall under the "puff" category to me.

A few items I consider to be "puffs": popcorn, croissants, cream 'puffs'*, rice cakes

*Shocker, right? 

Because these sugar muffins are delicious, I won't fault PW over the name.  I just wanted to make sure you understood they aren't as light and airy as they sound.

If you aren't into carbs for breakfast, you might want to save these for dessert.  Me, I'm perfectly fine with it.  In fact, my body craves pastries, bagels, muffins, and all other carb-a-licious items during the a.m. hours.

These muffins are so easy to make and so long as you can get over the fact that they are DIPPED IN BUTTER in the final step they might just become a household breakfast item.

The thought of butter dipped muffins first excited me, and then it bothered me. But when I realized that it essentially boils down to one tablespoon of butter per muffin, I decided it wasn't quite so horrible after all.

These muffins are like having cake for breakfast....or a cinnamon sugar Auntie Anne's pretzel.  Yum!  But the name has 'breakfast' in there, so it's okay.

The best part is that they are fabulous left over and apparently, according to PW, they freeze well.  That means a less hectic morning for me and the possibility of enjoying a breakfast that isn't in the form of a Cliff bar when I'm back at work and on the go.

Note: I just discovered that I blogged about these little beauties over two years ago!

C'est Francais Breakfast Puffs

Recipe: French Breakfast Puffs

Source: The Pioneer Woman Cooks

Time: 1 hour total

Ease: 1

Taste: 8

Leftover Value: 8 

Down the Drain or Keep in the Strainer: Keep it in the Strainer!

Truth be told, the amount of French I know is limited to the words in this blog title (Truth really be told, even that I had to look up to be sure...and I'm still not convinced).

I did, however, spend a week once with my grandmother in Paris.  Therefore you can take it from me that these French breakfast puffs will give you a flair of French living, regardless if you can ooh la la or not.

They are ridiculously easy to make.

You start with some dry ingredients.

And then creamed goodness.

The recipe says that it makes 12 muffins.  I was able to get 18 regular sized muffins out of all that batter.

But, the best is yet to come.

After the muffins have finished baking you set up the assembly line from heaven.

Butter and a cinnamon/sugar mixture.  Is there anything better?

Dip each muffin into the butter.

Yup, dip them into the butter.  Get them totally coated.

Then dip them into the cinnamon/sugar mixture.

Don't feel bad if you find yourself eating two or three of these in one sitting.  Just pour yourself a cup of coffee and enjoy!

Leftover, I microwaved these for about 15 seconds.  They tasted as if they had just been made!