cinnamon brown butter breakfast puffs

INGREDIENTS

• I cannot think of a better time to share this recipe than in this last week of entertaining before we all must don our gay old treadmill-trotting apparel again, I mean, for stretchy pants’ sake, they are
• . We’re not going to even pretend that this would be acceptable in the days after a New Years Day brunch, so we might as well enjoy them while we can. I made some changes to the old-school recipe; shortening became butter, melted butter became browned but
• ?), regular milk became buttermilk and I made them tiny, mini-muffin size rather than standard because the more they resemble cinnamon-sugar decked doughnut holes, the happier I am. And now I need you to come over and eat them for me. Please. There are bu
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• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon table salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup (5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon) unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus extra for greasing muffin cups
• 1 large egg
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup buttermilk