: a quick bread made of batter containing egg and baked in a pan having cuplike molds
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The bakery’s legendary peach muffins have people from near and far lining up at its door every summer.
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Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2024
Get the Recipe 17 of 80 Carrot Cake Muffins
These lightly spiced muffins scale back on the sugar.
—Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2024
Remove muffins from pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack, about 1 hour.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
This has included delivering hot meals from a local Mexican restaurant and muffins from a bakery.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
Yield: 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
Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2024
Get the Recipe 17 of 80 Carrot Cake Muffins
These lightly spiced muffins scale back on the sugar.
—Zoe Denenberg, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2024
Remove muffins from pan, and let cool completely on a wire rack, about 1 hour.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
This has included delivering hot meals from a local Mexican restaurant and muffins from a bakery.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2024
Yield: 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
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muffin
noun
muf·fin
ˈməf-ən 
: a bread made of batter containing egg that is baked in a small cup-shaped container
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