Jelly Doughnut Muffins
I don’t know if you’re in the Jelly Doughnut or NON Jelly Doughnut camp, but I can tell you that I am EMPHATICALLY in the Jelly Doughnut Camp.
My husband is a non jelly guy. Of course.
I am a fan of pretty much all doughnuts, but jelly ones are the best.
Not only is it a doughnut WITHOUT a hole in the middle, but it’s ALSO filled. So you get extra all around.
What is even the point of doughnuts with holes? You’re basically paying for air. True story.
Speaking of paying for air, would someone please tell my son that no one in their right mind would pay money to feed a pet that lives inside an iPod?
When you decide to be a parent, someone should prepare you for situations like your son nearing tears because he has to go to bed before his iPod dragon hatches it’s eggs. Because what happens when you’re unprepared is, you start laughing and then your kid cries, which makes you laugh so hard you snort.
And then you’re that mean mom laughing at her crying kid, while his iPod dragons hatch unattended and never get fed.
These muffins have the flavor of a cakey type dougnut, and are filled with raspberry jam and covered in superfine granulated sugar. You could totally use powdered sugar, but I prefer the look and texture of granulated. Just give it a couple pulses in your blender and you’ve got this stuff — it’s great!!
Feel free to use any jelly/jam/preserves you like, but I went with a good quality raspberry. And I’m totally going to go Ina on you and say USE GOOD JAM. I mean, if you’re going to eat a big glob of the stuff, you want it to be good.
Jelly lecture over. Make the muffins!!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 2/3 cups flour
- 1 cup milk
- Topping:
- 4 TBS butter, melted
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar, pulsed in blender until it's fine but not powdered
- 12 oz jar jelly, jam, or preserves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425. Line 12 muffin cups with liners and set aside.
- In the bowl of a mixer, beat butter, oil, and both sugars on medium speed until smooth. Add eggs and beat until combined. With the mixer on low, add baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, salt, and vanilla. With the mixer continuing to run, add the flour and milk alternately, starting and ending with flour. Once the batter is smooth and all the ingredients are combined, fill the muffin tins to almost full.
- Bake for about 15 minutes, until muffins are golden and tops spring back when lightly touched in the center.
- Let muffins cool for about 15 minutes, then cut a hole in the top of each. Dip the muffin in the melted butter, then in the sugar. Fill the hole with jam.
Notes
Muffins are best served the same day.
Adapted from King Arthur Flour
I used THIS cupcake corer to cut the middles out of my muffins instead of a knife — I love it!!
Enjoy and have a happy Monday!!
My sister and are drooling over you photos! She say’s that I MUST make these tomorrow! They look so and sound so good!
Seriously can it get any better than this? This looks so amazing, I will take a dozen now please!!!
I can’t wait to try these out! Thank you for sharing, and yes I laugh at my son as well with Clash of Clans… ugh those games are total mind sucks.
Maybe I’m blind, bur I didn’t see flour listed in the ingredients, so not sure how much to use. Forgive me if I missed it…
It is 2 and 2/3 cups flour.
YUM! These look amazing!! I’ve made one similar…. hmmm maybe I need to make them again. hehe :)
That laughing at your upset kid thing? Yeah, that happened to me several times. I felt horrible and knew I was being insensitive to my irrational child, but it only made me laugh harder. As for doughnuts, I wont’kick a jelly filled out of bed, but maple bars are my first love. I also adore a chocolate frosted, custard filled donut. Extra heart attacky. As for muffins? I want one of these.
The photographs look awesome. What’s not to love about these?! They look yum!
I love jam, I love muffins, I love doughnuts. I think I’d love these a lot.
How much flour and milk? I think you inadvertently left them out of the ingredient list.
It’s been edited, thank you!! 2 2/3 cup flour and 1 cup milk.
I ADORE jelly donuts with granulated sugar!
And nothing could be closer to my reality of last week than your story about the ipad dragon. I cannot believe we pay for airwaves.
These sound soooo good!!
You had me at Jelly doughnut.
These look amazing, I have just gotten on the jelly doughnut bandwagon, I cannot wait to try these!
Two of my favorite things together. Swoon.
After being sick all weekend I think I deserve a dozen of these! Yum!
Non! But these muffins are adorable!
Oh, these are gorgeous! And I want 17 of them right now!
There is a doughnut place here that fills their doughnuts not with jelly, but with chocolate frosting. Yep.
Yum! Thank you for always providing links to special tools or ingredients that you use!
Awwww it’s kind of cute as to how kids take things so seriously, like iPod dragons.
And yes I’m definitely in the jelly donut camp, especially when it’s conveniently in muffin form.
LOL at the ipod dragon story! :D
I’m so with you on filled doughnuts!! I can’t stand ones without, what is the point exactly!! Sometimes if I get one with only a little bit of filling, I just eat that bit and leave the rest as I’m sorry, but I want lots and lots of filling!! These look so delicious, just printed the recipe so I can make them! :)
I could easily eat a bakers dozen of these, with a cold glass of milk. Super yummy!
OOOOhhh My Gerrddd. These are BRILLIANT! Also, I blame you for what is about to happen in my kitchen with me and these muffins.
I like both jelly and non jelly. These look great, Kristan!
Well then, I know how in celebrating National Doughnut Day!
I could eat 37 of these right now, with good jam of course!
Ok, so first of all. YES! These muffins look to die for. Secondly, I am seriously in need of parental training when it comes to kids and those types of iPod situations. My kids have A.D.D. when it comes to their little games that they want a new one every 10 minutes. So now I make my 8 year old beat a level of Candy Crush for me before she can download a new game. HAHA! Parent of the year award… here I come!
Kids and their damn ipod pets!!!
Love these darling.
I had totally not been on-board with “doughnut” muffins…then I saw these. Jelly doughnuts are SO underrated!!! They’re my favorite and I was always the oddball-out in my family growing up because of it! Jelly doughnut lovers unite <3
Love these! Bet they taste amazing!!
I am a jelly doughnut all the way- even better is the chocolate ones with custard in the middle! Bet these muffins are scrumptious :)
holy yum!! can’t wait to give these a try!
My husband is in the Jelly Doughnut camp and he would LOVE these! looks great!
“And I’m totally going to go Ina on you and say USE GOOD JAM.” Lol!
Oh my lordy lord, this is on my to do list YUM!!
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Since you say these are best the first day..any suggestions for a single person? Can they be frozen? How long will the batter keep? Can it be frozen?