"This approach instantly makes coffee cake more shareable and easier to transport, while fitting perfectly into gatherings such as tailgates, picnics, wedding showers, fishing trips, happy hour with friends, or afternoon tea in the garden. They also fit nicely into lunchboxes and portable storage containers like these MinBoo bamboo ones. Muffin-style coffee cakes also tend to stay fresh longer than traditional ones baked in a pan and cut into slices."
"Individual cooked muffins typically remain whole until eaten, with less exposure of the inner crumb to air and so less chance of drying out. Granted, it's easy to pour a whole batch of batter into a single pan, cook, and top with streusel in one fell swoop. But with a few extra minutes, you get the same taste, a similar texture, and even more deliciousness packed into a compact, accessible, traveling snack."
Turning coffee cake into muffins creates personal-sized handheld treats that retain soft, sweet, cinnamony qualities while becoming easier to share and transport. Muffin-style coffee cakes fit into gatherings, lunchboxes, and portable containers and often stay fresher than pan-baked cakes because individual muffins expose less inner crumb to air. Converting recipes usually requires only minor tweaks to cooking time while keeping ingredients and typical oven temperatures between 325°F and 375°F. Muffins bake faster than large cakes due to smaller batter amounts per cup, and adding streusel and similar toppings provides familiar texture and flavor in a compact, portable form.
Read at Tasting Table
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]