I saw this muffin recipe on www.photograzing.com a while back and decided to make them this past weekend. They're a little sweet for my tastes, but with the addition of blueberries, or other tart fruit, they could be a keeper.

Spiced Mini Muffins

Yields approx 24 mini muffins

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking power
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease mini muffin tin with cooking spray.

2. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg.

3. In a medium bowl combine sugar, eggs, vegetable oil, milk and vanilla extract.

4. Mix wet ingredients with the dry ingredients until just combined

5. Fill each mini muffin cup about 3/4 full.

6. Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out mostly clean. Once muffins have cooled you can top with a cinnamon sugar mixture (optional).