Muffin Tin Menus: 32 Recipes That Are Delicious and Easy to Make

By Martha Stone

The muffin tin has turned out to be one of the most versatile and useful kitchen gadgets, and it can be used to create a wide range of entrees, sides and desserts quite easily.

Although muffin tins are mostly known for creating muffins and cupcakes, they can be used to create clever breakfast items like egg and cheese breakfast cups, hashbrown cups, dinner items like taco and buffalo chicken “cupcakes” and more.

These muffin tin recipes are designed to be easy to make and they create perfectly portioned bite size entrees and appetizers that are sure to please.

Muffin tins are available in many different shapes and configurations, but these recipes will mostly use the standard size tin.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Martha Stone
• Release date: Sep 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310913297

Martha Stone

Martha Stone is a chef and also cookbook writer. She was born and raised in Idaho where she spent most of her life growing up. Growing up in the country taught her how to appreciate and also use fresh ingredients in her cooking. This love for using the freshest ingredients turned into a passion for cooking. Martha loves to teach others how to cook and she loves every aspect of cooking from preparing the dish to smelling it cooking and sharing it with friends.Martha eventually moved to California and met the love of her life. She settled down and has two children. She is a stay at home mom and involves her children in her cooking as much as possible. Martha decided to start writing cookbooks so that she could share her love for food and cooking with everyone else.

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Introduction

Muffin tins were created for the purpose of baking muffins or cupcakes but since then creative chefs have evolved their utility into creating amazing and simple entrees appetizers and desserts that can be prepared in just a few minutes.

The standard muffin tin holds 3.5 ounces and usually has enough space for 12 muffins, but there are variations of muffin tins that hold 6 24 or more muffins.

Mini muffin tins hold a total of 2 and 1/8 ounces and can be used to create smaller muffins, and jumbo muffin tins hold 8 and 3/16 ounces.

The material used to construct most muffin tins is stainless steel or aluminum, both of which are coated with Teflon non-stick coatings, as well as cast iron.

Tins that do not have non-stick coating require the use of cooking spray in order to make those recipes.

Many of the recipes created in muffin tins can be refrigerated or frozen and eaten again later, and some recipes like banana bread can even be stored outside of the