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Breakfast Puffs

A muffin with a cinnamon sugar coating, served with butter and jelly.

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Why it works: Vanilla and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Breakfast Puffs

Oven350
Time15 to 20 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Preheat the oven to 350.

  2. Grease muffin pans.

  3. Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt and mace.

  4. Beat the sugar, oil, egg and vanilla for 30 seconds.

  5. Add the flour mixture and milk to the egg mixture. Beat for 30 seconds after each addition.

  6. Fill 10 muffin cups with 2/3 full of batter.

Bake and coat

  1. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.

  2. Prepare the coating. Combine the 1/2 cup sugar and the cinnamon.

  3. Melt the butter or margarine.

  4. Roll each muffin in melted butter and coat all over in the cinnamon sugar mixture.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately with butter and jelly.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

970Calories
28 gProtein
40 gFat
123 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 10 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + vanillatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,241 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Flour
Provides the structure that holds the muffin's crumb together as it bakes.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking, lifting the batter so the muffins rise and stay light.
Egg
Adds structure and richness, helping the batter set as it bakes.
Canola oil or vegetable oil
Adds moisture and tenderness to the crumb.
Sugar
Sweetens the muffins and helps brown the crust; also forms the cinnamon coating.
Butter or margarine
Adds fat and flavor to the coating, helping the cinnamon sugar adhere to the muffins.

The step that matters

Beat the batter only briefly after adding the flour mixture and milk. Stirring a flour batter develops gluten, which makes muffins tough. Mixing just until combined, as the recipe's short 30-second beats suggest, keeps the crumb tender.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, sugar, canola oil, egg, vanilla, milk, butter):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, sugar, canola oil, egg, vanilla, milk, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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