Muffin pans

Muffin pans are used for baking muffins, popovers, cupcakes, tartlets, and miniature quiches and pizzas. Miniature pans hold about 1 1/2 tablespoons, standard about 1/2 cup (4 fl oz/125 ml), and oversized about 3/4 cup (6 fl oz/180 ml).

Muffin pans:
Muffin pans come in many sizes and shapes, even "muffin tops." The standard muffin pan called for in many recipes has 6 or 12 cups that measure 2½ inches across the top.

The necessary items to turn out basic cupcakes are muffin pans, boxed cake mix and premade frosting.

Muffin pans, conversely, usually are narrower on the bottom than the top. So if you made biscuits in a muffin pan, you wouldn't have uniform round biscuits.

Spoon batter into greased 2 1/2-inch muffin pans. Bake until well browned (25 to 30 minutes). Serve warm.
Makes 1 dozen.
Note: Frozen cranberries can be used in place of fresh berries in this recipe.

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Made with butter, eggs, milk and flour, it's baked in beef drippings until crisp and puffy. Made in shallow baking dishes or muffin pans and, like souffles, are best served immediately after baking before they "deflate".

bowl beat the 1/2 cup butter and the cream cheese with an electric mixer until well mixed. Stir in flour. Divide dough into 24 balls, 1 inch in diameter, and press the dough evenly into bottom and up sides of twenty-four 1-3/4-inch muffin pans.

Due to the softness of the metal it is commonly alloyed with magnesium, copper, or branze to increase its strength. Sheet aluminum is commonly used for baking sheets, pie plate, and cake or muffin pans.

See also: Muffin, Baking, Produce, Cooking, Oven