scuffin

plural scuffins

1. A food resembling both a scone and a muffin.

   These scuffins—part scone, part muffin—are so beyond delicious, rich, and decadent they could easily be dessert.

   2017, Valerie Bertinelli, Valerie’s Home Cooking, Oxmoor House

   2 more examples

   But it wasn’t until he invented the cronut — a croissant/doughnut hybrid — after striking out on his own, that he ascended to star status. Time magazine called it one of the best inventions of 2013, and it birthed several other hybrid pastries including the bruffin (brioche/muffin), the duffin (doughnut/muffin) and the scuffin (scone/muffin).

   2015 February 11, Sun Sentinel, volume 55, number 292, page 1

   Pairing nicely with beverages featuring freshly pulled shots are various hearty meal-worthy items and an assortment of pastries, including scuffins, a scone-muffin hybrid — baked in-house under the direction of Tracey Seta, who co-owns the shop with husband Stephen Seta.

   2019 September 25, “Scone, muffin, scuffin”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 138th year, number 237, page 3