hot buttered muffins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 cup milk
• 5 tablespoons , divided
• 3 tablespoons white sugar

Recipe

Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 25 mins Ready Time: 40 mins


• preheat oven to 375 degrees f (190 degrees c). grease 12 muffin cups.
• beat butter with an electric mixer at medium speed in a large bowl until creamy. beat 1/2 cup sugar into the butter until fully incorporated. beat one egg into the butter mixture until fully incorporated before beating second egg into the mixture.
• stir flour, baking powder, salt, cloves, and nutmeg together in a separate bowl. mix milk and 3 tablespoons in a third bowl.
• alternately add small amounts of the flour mixture and the milk mixture to the butter mixture while beating on low speed, mixing each addition until just incorporated into a batter. spoon batter into prepared muffin cups to about 3/4 full.
• bake in the preheated oven until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. remove muffins immediately from the cups to cool on a wire rack.
• stir remaining and 3 tablespoons sugar together in a small saucepan over low heat; cook, stirring constantly, until the sugar dissolves, 3 to 5 minutes. brush mixture the tops of the warm muffins.