When life gives you lemons, make lemon meringue pie. When it gives you cinnamon, save it up for a rainy day and make cinnamon muffins for coffee-time!

This recipe has been doing its rounds on the blogsphere but I decided that I need to get my hands on it only after reading it on TheCookingChook‘s blog (who in turn found it on Can You Stay for Dinner). Since I fancy myself to be a “creative” cook, I HAD to go and alter the recipe, of course. But surprisingly, it worked!
So come coffee-time and a very rainy city, I treated myself to the ultimate snack: coffee and cinnamon muffins! The hot coffee and the warm flavor of cinnamon in my sweet-treat were the ultimate combination to munch on as I watched the rain make its patterns on my windowpane. So here is my version of the muffins:

Cinnamon Coffee Muffins

Ingredients:
1 cup wheat flour

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp ground all-spice

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/3 cup vegetable oil

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1 large egg

3/4 cup milk

For the topping-
1/4 cup melted butter

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1 Tbsp ground cinnamon

Method:
Preheat the oven to 350º F (180º C). Sift the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Mix the wet ingredients in a separate bowl. Whisk so that the egg and the oil are all mixed together. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet in batches and make sure they are well combined. Grease 12 muffin cups and divide the batter among them. Bake the muffins for 20 minutes. While that is happening, melt the butter and mix it with the sugar and cinnamon on a plate for the topping. When done, knife the muffins out of the pan while they are hot. Gently roll them in the topping. Be generous! Let them cool on a wire rack.

The wheat flour gave it a nutty taste that I very much love and by replacing normal sugar with brown, I enhanced the taste of the spices in the muffins. One of these days, I’ve got to try a sugar-free version of this because something tells me that my fellow caffeine loving mother would love it!

You could probably bake this in a cake pan or a brownie tray. Those are my plans for the next couple of times! Oh, we are going to be very happy together, these muffins and I.