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Mimmis57 07-04-2010 11:30 AM

Help! Why don't my muffins rise? Oh they rise to the top of the muffin cup & then spread over the top of the pan. I make great cookies & yeast bread but so far the muffins have won our battle! Little buggers! They taste yummy but they look yucky. I bake for other people and sales etc. so they have to look good & taste good. HELP!!!!

bearisgray 07-04-2010 11:33 AM

Is your baking powder fresh?

Pam 07-04-2010 11:34 AM

I am nobody's baker, but they sound too thin. I have made muffins in the past and the batter was thick. Try again reducing your liquids. If you are adding extras like bananas or applesause it could be the liquid content. Happy baking, but you keep them over there, my butt is already too big, that is why I don't bake.

momymom 07-04-2010 11:41 AM

Are you over mixing them? Or maybe not putting enough batter in each muffin cup? Fill each one 3/4 of the way. When you make muffins, mix your dry ingr. in one bowl, and your wet in a seperate one. When you mix the two together, mix just untill the dry ingr. are moist. Small lumps of flour are ok. Also, check your oven temp. If it's to low, they won't rise as much. Good luck.

JJs 07-04-2010 11:43 AM

should I share my mother's best muffin recipe?
Most muffin recipes make yucky muffins - flat, damp (for lack of a better word) muffins...
these rise above the pan in beautiful peaks...

let met know...

Ditter43 07-04-2010 11:47 AM


Originally Posted by JJs
should I share my mother's best muffin recipe?
Most muffin recipes make yucky muffins - flat, damp (for lack of a better word) muffins...
these rise above the pan in beautiful peaks...

let met know...

inquiring minds want to know your Moms muffin recipe!! :lol:

littlehud 07-04-2010 11:55 AM

Oh yes. Share your moms recipe.

JJs 07-04-2010 11:58 AM

©Mary SC Muffins

preheat oven to 400 and either grease muffin pan or spray with 'Pam'
2 C self-rising flour
½ C sugar (splenda can be substituted but the texture is not quite the same)
1 egg
¼ C cooking oil
1 C milk

mix dry ingredients, add the rest, mix - don't over mix but don't count or get paranoid about it
you can add blueberries for blueberry muffins, or a couple spoons cocoa for chocolate muffins, etc

spoon into muffin pan - equal amounts blah blah makes 12

about 25 minutes at 400 but check around 20 minutes to make sure they don't get too browned...

My mother made this one up because she said she didn't like most muffin recipes because they always said not to mix the ingredients.

Ditter43 07-04-2010 03:19 PM

Thanks....I will try them!!

dakotamaid 07-04-2010 05:58 PM

All these hints are good to try. Another thought might be to make sure that you're not greasing the top of the muffin pan. This combined with too thin a batter and too full cups might be the problem. Just my thoughts. :-D


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