: 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
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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
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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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