Sunday, March 20, 2022

Muffins, Oh, We Love Muffins! #Recipe Roundup


LESLIE BUDEWITZ: Every so often, you've got to have a muffin. Almost every Sunday morning, at our house! We like to bake up a batch, eat a few while they're fresh and warm, then cool and freeze the rest, 2 or 4 in a bag, since we're a two-human household. Happily, muffins freeze nicely. And even more happily, the Kitchen crew has many wonderful muffin recipes to choose from. Here are a few for your Sunday morning, or any day of the week!  
Lemon Zucchini Muffins Peg Cochran serves up these tasty Lemon Zucchini Muffins (pictured above), which she describes as "Weight Watchers style." I'm a Lifetime member myself, and one of the things I appreciate about how the program has evolved over the years is that you can actually eat muffins and other delicious treats and still lose weight. 
Our founding member, now a Kitchen alumna, Krista Davis, shares these Valentine Brunch Muffins, aka Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins. It's a classic flavor combo, and by golly, they look good enough to eat!  Regular blog readers know we enjoy sharing Halloween-themed recipes every fall, and our Maddie Day (aka Edith Maxwell) offers these fabulous Pumpkin Carrot Cake Muffins.   
Another alumna, Daryl Wood Gerber, is famous for baking gluten-free treats so good you'll never miss the gluten. She's actually shared two terrific recipes for gluten-free blueberry muffins, one traditional, which she calls Sunday Blueberry Muffins, and one for Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Blueberry Muffins.  And speaking of blueberries, one of our newer members, Molly MacRae, offers these Sourdough Blueberry Muffins
Click here for the recipe.

Muffins don't have to be sweet treats.  And in our house, these Omelet Muffins are year-round faves, especially popular at our annual holiday brunch. They're quite flexible, easily made with almost any combination of cheese and veggies you have on hand. For another savory option, try Cleo Coyle's Corn Muffin Tops a la Julia Child from the early years of the blog. And of course, many corn bread recipes can be baked in muffin tins -- if you lack one of those cool old pans with molds in the shapes of ears of corn!


Remember the old Pillsbury Dough Boy ads proclaiming "Nothing says lovin' like a fresh-baked muffin"? Well, okay, we revised it a bit. Whatever muffins you choose, we hope you bake, serve, and eat with love and joy! 













What muffins are favorites
in your household? 

Do tell!

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~ The Mystery Lovers' Kitchen crew



17 comments:

  1. "Nothin' says lovin' like somethin' from the oven" is how I remember it.
    Muffins are "the bomb".

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  2. Great muffin recipes everyone!

    I used to make muffins as part of my breakfast/snack routine at work but I retired 6 years ago, and they are no longer part of my regular baking routine.

    I do like fruit-based muffins, so morning glory or apple-cinnamon or blueberry muffins are my fave ones to make at home.

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    1. Mr. Right had never heard of Morning Glory Muffins until I made Baked Morning Glory Oatmeal last winter -- shared it here in January, I think. Such a great flavor combo!

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  3. What a marvelous muffin roundup! Thank you, Leslie B., and thanks for including my Corn Muffin Tops (a la Julia Child). I originally wrote that post back in 2009, and it went up the very day that Nora Ephron's wonderful culinary-themed film Julie & Julia opened. Great memories and tasty muffins, one and all!

    ~ Cleo

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  4. Muffins! I love them. Two of our favorites are Knock Out Muffins (banana, chocolate chips, and walnuts) and Marmalade Muffins (made with a teaspoon of orange marmalade in the center and almonds on top. I think tomorrow should be a muffin day at our house. Maybe yours, too.

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  5. Thanks for pointing us to all these great muffin recipes, Leslie. I'm partial to muffins with fruit--blueberries, apples, bananas.

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  6. What a great survey! My faves are whole-wheat blueberry, with berries I picked myself last summer and froze.

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  7. I'm not much of a baker, but I certainly enjoy EATING muffins! And I think blueberry crumble might be my favorite.

    So the question is: Do you all eat the top of the muffin first, or dig in sideways, so you get a bit of that crumbly top with each bite? (I'm a sideways gal, myself.)

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    1. I never thought of it in quite those terms, but I'm a sideways gal, too! Break it open, butter it if you want, and start nibbling!

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  8. I'm not a baker. I love to cook. But I do enjoy muffins. Peg's lemon zucchini muffins look fabulous and I'd love one right now. I do eat the top of a muffin first, then the rest. It's funny how we all have our favorite ways but all like them!

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  9. I love cranberry muffins. These look great. Will need to give them a try

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    1. Another family fave is Cranberry Pumpkin Muffins -- we call them Christmas Muffins! I'm sure I posted them here somewhere...

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  10. I like pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. Yum!! Once when I was on Cape Cod I tried a cranberry orange muffin, it was very good.

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    1. Cranberry Orange is a great combo, more common in scones, but it sounds great for muffins!

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  11. Some muffins are seasonal, like the blueberry muffins (KA Baking recipe) I make during the summer. Others are great year round. We enjoy pistachio muffins (Cleo Coyle recipe) made green o..nly on St Patrick's day and corn muffins (a recipe I have for years, original source unknown) that I sometime spice up by adding in chopped jalopenos. I have found that some tea bread recipes easily adapt to muffins (cranberry orange). It is interesting to read about other varieties people enjoy.

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    1. Lois R - Glad to know you're enjoying our recipe for Pistachio Muffins. Just like you, we bake them naturally other times of the year but make them extra green (with a little added food coloring) for St. Patrick's Day. Eating of the green is just as much fun as wearing it the week of March 17th. Happy Spring and thanks for dropping by the Kitchen.

      ~ Cleo

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