American muffin

plural American muffins

1. UKA cupcake-shaped baked good.

   The American muffin looks something like a large cupcake, but has a rounded top instead of a flat one and is never toasted.

   2008, Charis Cotter, Terry Durack, 1001 Foods: The Greatest Gastronomic Sensations on Earth, page 825

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   An American muffin is usually yeastless bread baked in a cupcake shape; although defined in some British dictionaries as a sweet.

   1989, Ofelia García, Ricardo Otheguy, English across Cultures. Cultures across English: A Reader in Cross-cultural Communication, page 239

   American muffins are chemically leavened, enriched, semi-sweet quickbreads baked in individual portions. Although American muffins can be split, warmed, toasted, and spread with dairy products or fruit preserves, they are generally consumed "as is" at room temperature for breakfast, brunch or light snacks.

   2015, Darra Goldstein, editor, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets, page 465

   Nineteenth-century editions of Cassel's Dictionary of Cookery, published in London, defined the "American muffin" as a "yeast-raised griddle bread."

   2017, Stella Parks, Brave Tart: Iconic American Desserts