: a quick bread made of batter containing egg and baked in a pan having cuplike molds
Examples of muffin in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebYield: 12 muffins or 18 minis – check minis after 10 minutes.—Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2024 There’s also a free nightly happy hour, all-day muffins and ice cream, and access to beach facilities at the Southernmost Beach.—Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2024 In the hot food area, guests can help themselves to pasta, soups, baked potatoes, pizza, bread and pastries such as brownies and muffins.—Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2024 Filled with Family Favorites In January, the star expanded her line of boxed making mixes with Duncan Hines with mixes for chocolate cake, yellow cake, cinnamon crumb cake, blueberry muffins and banana nut muffins.—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2024 All-Purpose Muffins Consider this your new go-to basic muffin recipe.—Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024 Over the weekend, volunteers delivered WiFi hotspots, SIM cards, a handful of DVDs and 40 homemade muffins to mariners aboard the Dali, said local Apostleship of the Sea Director Andrew Middleton and Port of Baltimore chaplain Joshua Messick.—Scott Dance, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024 While the color is setting, wash and dry muffin tin (or use additional tin).—Annie Colbert, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024 When baking the hummingbird cupcakes, some of the oil may leach through the paper liners and into the muffin cups themselves.—Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
probably from Low German muffen, plural of muffe cake
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