Cinnamon Coffee Puffs

The fun thing about making food from recipes that are completely new to you is the chance of failure. This attempt resulted in failure. The failure ended up in the garbage. The recipe, if you follow it properly, should turn out fine. Just don't accidentally add too much flour or it won't rise.

When I get more yeast, I'll make these again and post a picture of the delicious outcome.

Cinnamon Coffee Puffs (Printer-friendly PDF Version of fixed recipe)
1 cake yeast (or packet dry active yeast)
1/4 C lukewarm water
1 C milk
2 T sugar
1/2 C butter
1 t salt
2 eggs
3 1/4 C flour
1/2 t vanilla
1/4 C sugar + 1/4 t cinnamon

Place the yeast in the warm water to soften.

Scald the milk over medium heat. Add the sugar, butter, and salt. Stir until dissolved. Cool to lukewarm.

Place the milk mixture in a mixing bowl. Add the flour, eggs, and yeast. Mix well. Add the vanilla and beat well. (You can see I forgot some of the flour at this point and added it. I actually added too much. Don't do that.)

Cover and let rise for an hour or so until it is light. Stir down and drop into greased muffin pans. Cover and let rise again. (By this point, nothing was rising. But I continued on and hoped for the best.)

Bake at 375 for 20 minutes.

I made cinnamon muffin bricks instead of cinnamon puffs. Can't be successful every time!