Jumbo Muffins

I promise to put away the jumbo muffin pan and move on, but here’s one more really good variation on KA’s chocolate muffin. This one includes a full cup of pumpkin which adds moisture, bulk, fiber and surprisingly little pumpkin flavor. In fact, if you don’t tell people there’s pumpkin in the muffin, they probably [...]
Published on January 1, 2010

We had muffins again this morning. Fuzz agreed to pose with one. Then “Yoink!” Lizzie jumped up and grabbed it. She knows better, but we were asking for it holding the muffin up like that. Luckily, it was a super jumbo muffin so at least Fuzz got half. And really, that’s all you need. The jumbo [...]
Published on December 31, 2009

Fuzz is enjoying the long, leisurely mornings of holiday break. Instead of rushing through a boiled egg before having to brush her teeth and pick and outfit, she gets to lounge around in her pajamas playing Webkinz and eating muffins. Yesterday I made her a batch of these, but they didn’t go over well. She [...]
Published on December 31, 2009

If you like the banana chocolate combo, here’s another muffin recipe for you. I made half a batch of these this afternoon and Fuzz’s friends gave them a thumbs up. You can make 6 (as written) or halve the recipe and make 3. If you want to make regular size muffins, use regular muffin tins [...]
Published on December 29, 2009

I haven’t come up with a New Year’s Eve dessert, but here’s a breakfast idea for New Year’s Day. These muffins, which I adapted from my favorite King Arthur Flour recipe, are more like actual muffins than chocolate cupcakes in disguise. They’re very chocolaty, but have a firm muffin “shell”. They seem a little drier [...]
Published on December 29, 2009

This morning I realized I didn’t have a recipe for Morning Glory Muffins, one of my favorites. To remedy that, I made a quick batch using a recipe from Gold Medal. It’s a good one! It calls for brown sugar, carrots, apples, coconut and nuts and it may be the moistest muffin I’ve ever baked. [...]
Published on November 29, 2009