Do you ever wish you could serve fresh baked muffins, but don’t have the time? Muffins can be a perfect spontaneous hospitality treat, a great breakfast when you have guests or just a treat for your family one morning! Most muffins are not a big deal to whip up, the problem is usually the clean up. We just don’t have the time to make them and clean up! I have a tip to solve this problem! This is one of my very most favorite kitchen tricks! I’ve used it with dozens of recipes and it has never failed. If you want fresh baked muffins, but you need to make them ahead, here is the secret!
Make your muffins just like the recipe says to make them.
Put them in muffin cups lined with cupcake liners.
Place in freezer and freeze solid.
Once frozen, remover from freezer and put into storage container (it can be gallon sized zipper style bags or rectangular freezer containers – I have ones from Tupperware that I love!). Return to freezer to keep frozen.
When it is time to bake the muffins. Put them in the oven at the temperature the recipe called for and add 5 minutes to the baking time. They’ll turn out perfectly every time! I recommend you label the container with the name of the muffin, the oven temperature and the cooking time adding the 5 minute amount. This way when you pull them out of the freezer you have all the information you need to bake them.
So make those great big quadruple batches and enjoy the fruit of your labor for weeks to come!
Please share your favorite muffin recipe with me here! Also, I’d love to hear how you used this tip to bless your family or others.
I love this idea as well. After I try it, I’ll let you know how it worked out. I’m always afraid of my freezer. I dont know how long to defrost things, and the night before thing never seems to work for me. This muffin trick is just what I need.
I’ve been doing this for years and have found that using the silicone muffin pans without liners works even better. So much batter stuck to the paper liners that it seemed I was losing 1/3 of the muffin that way every time. The silicone totally eliminates that problem.
Robyn, I’m so glad it is helpful! The freezer can be your friend, but it is a bit tricky that is for sure!
Stephanie, Do you freeze in the silicone and then pop them out to put into a freezer container for long term storage? Also, do you use those individual silicone muffin cups? My neighbors have them and I’m very intrigued by the concept.
Mary Ellen