Even my cravings have a short attention span.

 
I started out making these chocolate chip muffins. But I grabbed the self rising flour off the shelf… and the recipe on the back was for cinnamon streusel coffee cake… which sounded so good. Suddenly, mid-recipe, my craving switched from chocolate to cinnamon.
 
What is a girl to do?  Obviously, the answer is go with the newest craving. So I switched things up mid-way, and ended up with amazing cinnamon streusel muffins.
 

Cinnamon Streusel Muffins

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups self rising flour
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon

Combine the sugar and butter until smooth-ish, and then add in your egg, milk and vanilla. It’ll be a little lumpy. Stir in the flour until well mixed. In a separate bowl, combine the brown sugar and cinnamon. Drop the batter, by tablespoons, into muffin liners. (I actually sprayed my muffin liners with a little non-stick cooking spray. I’m not sure if it’s necessary, but that’s what I did.) Then top with about a teaspoon of cinnamon sugar mixture. Top that with the rest of the batter, and then top with the remaining sugar. (See the pattern?) Bake in the oven at 375, for about 15 minutes, or until golden!

They’re more like… individual coffee cakes. But that’s ok. Because everything is cuter when it’s a single serving.

I gobbled one of these up before it was barely cool. The rest came into work with me, because I couldn’t be trusted around them.

And since a lot of my weekend was spent at Mexican restaurants and/or Cookout (can’t pass up at milkshake at 2am. Especially when I’m with G-love and Eric) I made sure to fit in some workouts.

Eric and I signed up for the Monument 10K, and we’re hoping to run it faster than we did last year! Although, we’re also considering dressing up like LMFAO, so if we’re slower this year, we’ll have an excuse. We did a short run on Saturday, and it was a decent jog, considering the wind was blowing like crazy.

I also returned to my circuit-style workout on Sunday and it made me wonder why I stopped doing it. So effective, and the time flies by. Seriously. (It helped that I had the whole workout room to myself at the gym. What can I say? I like my privacy when I’m doing burpees.)

What’s your favorite type of muffin? Have you signed up for any races recently?

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