Coffee Cake Muffins

This is another recipe from the "Easy Everyday Cooking" cards I have.  This was my first time making these, and it's yet another happy yummy discovery!  The original recipe has softened butter or margarine listed as an ingredient; I'd forgotten to set out some butter to be ready and didn't have time to wait, so I went with butter flavored Crisco as a substitute--worked great :)  The photo below is of the only 3 leftover from the batch--forgot to snap a pic of the finished product (made these for houseguests, so I was a bit more concerned with feeding them.)

Ingredients:

1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. sugar
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 egg
3/4 c. milk (I used 2%)
1/3 c. butter flavored Crisco (or butter or margarine, softened)

3 T. melted butter
cinnamon-sugar blend, for dipping

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and grease a 12-cup muffin pan.

2. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg in a medium bowl.

3. Beat egg and milk together in a small bowl.

4. Beat (by hand) butter flavored Crisco in a large bowl.

5. Add flour mixture and egg mixture alternately, mixing with wooden spoon after each addition.  Do not overmix.

6. Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan, filling each cup 2/3 full.  Bake for 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of a muffin comes out clean.

7. Just after muffins come out of oven, remove them from the pan and put on cooling rack for 1-2 minutes.

8. Dip muffin tops in melted butter, then in cinnamon-sugar blend and serve immediately.  Enjoy!