French Breakfast Puffs

These small buttery, cinnamon bites are always a hit for breakfast.
                              French Breakfast Puffs

1/3 cup butter (5 1/3 T)

½ cup sugar

1 ½ cups flour

1 ½ t. baking powder

½ t. salt

¼ t. nutmeg

1 egg

1 cup milk

6 T melted butter

½ cup sugar

1 t. cinnamon

Cream butter and sugar.  Sift together flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg.  Add the egg to the creamed mixture.  Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk, mixing thoroughly after each addition.  Place a teaspoonful of the dough in lightly greased mini muffin tins.  Bake 350 for 20 minutes.  Cool slightly.  Roll muffins in melted butter then in ½ cup sugar to which cinnamon has been added.  These may be made in advance and then rewarmed.