750 Best Muffin Recipes: Everything from breakfast classics to gluten-free, vegan and coffeehouse favorites

750 Best Muffin Recipes: Everything from breakfast classics to gluten-free, vegan and coffeehouse favorites by Camilla V. Saulsbury is quickly becoming one of my favorite new cookbooks. And I'm not alone. (As I write this the book has a over 30 reviews on Amazon.com and they're all five stars.) It's full of a remarkable variety of both classic and creative muffin recipes from scratch. Once you begin baking muffins from this book, you'll never have to depend on muffins from a box again. Muffins are one of my favorite things to bake. They're a great choice whenever you get the urge to bake because they are so quick and easy. This is a wonderful cookbook for all levels of bakers. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. There are 24 pages of full sized pictures of the finished products to tempt you. All the muffins I've made so far have been extremely easy and turned out perfectly. Favorites to date include the best basic muffins, whole wheat applesauce muffins and Boston brown bread muffins. I can't wait to try the chocolate macaroon muffins, when I'm feeling decadent. 750 Best Muffin Recipes begins with everything you need to know to master from scratch muffin making including information about key ingredients and essential equipment, as well as baking tips and advice. The author's writing style is warm and engaging. Chapters include: Top 25 Classic Muffins:Think basic muffins with straightforward flavors - blueberry, pumpkin and bran - for example. Breakfast Muffins: Over 80 recipes for muffins that are perfect for breakfast - granola muffins, oatmeal muffins, jelly doughnut muffins - and many many more. Coffeehouse Muffins: Decadent, special, indulgent and unexpected are words that come to mind to describe the muffin recipes that include caramel apple, blueberry streusel, orange marmalade, coconut almond joyful, pecan pie and cappuccino. Lunch and Supper Muffins: Recipes for savory muffins that make perfect accompaniments to soups, stews, chili and salads. If you think muffins are just for breakfast this chapter will change your mind. I can't wait to try the roasted pepper feta, Parmesan, herb and pesto and rye supper muffins. Farmer's Market Muffins: Recipes inspired by the local season produce found in farmer's markets are what you'll find here. The dozens of options include fresh gooseberry muffins, strawberry rhubarb muffins, chocolate basil muffins and kale toasted walnut. Global Muffins: This chapter is full of recipes for muffins with flavors from around the world such as rum and coconut, Scottish oat, golden olive oil, sesame ginger, tahini and linzer raspberry almond. Superfood Muffins: A collection of super healthy muffin recipes including cranberry multigrain, maple squash, zucchini oat and quinoa raisin. This is my favorite chapter so far. Gluten-Free Muffins: 150 recipes for gluten free muffins, both sweet and savory. Most are made with a gluten free flour blend made from brown rice four, potato starch and tapioca starch that is included at the beginning of the book. Vegan Muffins: An extensive collection of vegan muffin recipes, both sweet and savory. Tasty options include applesauce raisin, raspberry vanilla, agave, rhubarb, banana, lemon polenta and blueberry. I think this is a terrific cookbook at a great price written by a gifted writer and recipe developer. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to expand their muffin making repertoire.

I'm so pleased with this book. I own many baking books but I really enjoy baking muffins in particular and usually other cookbooks just don't contain all too many muffin recipes! I especially prefer vegan baking and this book provides an entire chapter of delicious vegan muffins -- as well as gluten-free muffins, if that is important to you. The recipes on their own are spectacular, although I sometimes tweak them to make them a big healthier and lighter (e.g. substituting half the oil for applesauce, using rice yogurt instead of dairy, reducing sugar, and so on). I have had excellent results every time! Most big recipe compilations like this are hit and miss because they're recipes that have been accumulated by the author from others and it's questionable as to how thoroughly they've been tested. I can say that that is thankfully not the case for this book. It also has more "meal"-type muffins, savory, ethnic (e.g., Indian), sweet, fruity -- you name it! So versatile. You'll never get bored! Apple, cherry, lemon, blackberry, banana, flax, chocolate, millet, cinnamon, corn, cheesey, caramel, bran, peanut butter, coconut, jalapeno, even meat: no grain, potential ingredient, or flavor combination goes unmentioned! Kudos to the author for including so many whole-grains! I guess sometimes the most wonderful cookbooks are those with the least hype. Would make a great gift, too! Just as an additional tip: to change things up, I alternate between my go-to regular muffin pan, Nordic Ware Muffin Pan - 12 cup Standard Size (heavy duty aluminum, made in USA - outstanding) used with If You Care Unbleached Large Baking Cups, 60-Count Boxes (Pack of 24) ; my "muffin top" pan, Chicago Metallic Non-Stick Original Muffin Top Pan ; and my mini-muffin pan, Wilton Aluminum 24-Cup Mini Muffin Pan used with If You Care Mini Baking Cups, 90-Count Packages (Pack of 24) . The variety keeps hungry fans satisfied. :)

With the proliferation of baking blogs, I was dubious that a muffin book was actually necessary. Why buy a cookbook when Tastespotting exists? But this book is definitely necessary for anyone with a deep love for muffins who is looking to branch out beyond the typical banana or corn muffins. Don't get me wrong, Camilla Saulsbury has some great recipes for classic muffins, but the real strength of this book lies in its variety. There are sweet muffins, savory muffins, gluten-free muffins, vegan muffins, and even a section dedicated to global muffins. With 750 recipes, there is truly a muffin for every season, every craving, every picky eater, every food allergy, every dietary restriction. My favorites so far have been the pistachio citrus muffins and the chocolate basil muffins. The latter is the perfect way to use up all your summer basil once you get sick of salads and pesto. I've been working my way through this book for Muffin Mondays at the office, with 10 down and 740 left to go. I'm not quite sure who loves this book more, myself or my coworkers.

Tried several recipes included in this book. My family and I loved every one of them!

The cover doesn’t look like much but man these recipes are excellent. I never write reviews but can’t say enough about how good they are. Some of the best ones are recipes I didn’t think I would like, such as date and walnut muffins on page 79. They could charge double for this book and I would pay it.

I am a starting baker and this cookbook is awesome! Such great variety and every single recipe that I have used from this cookbook has been a success!

I bought this book last week after being dissatisfied with grocery store muffin mixes. I wanted to start making them on my own, and I came across this book and figured I'd give it a try. I love it! It's easy to follow and there are so many recipes to choose from. The Chai Spice Muffin was my first recipe to make. Delicious! From there it was on to the Basic Corn Muffin. Again... delicious! I've flipped through every page of this book and have it covered with post-it stickies for all the recipes I can't wait to get to next. There are varieties that I never would have imagined, and I intend to make a lot of them. I realize I'm rating this book a 5 after trying only two of the recipes in it, however, I've read it from cover to cover and have faith that it will live up to this rating.

Nice book, so many recipes for all tastes, easy ones too but I like recipe books to have a picture of the dish or the dessert as well. It makes it more interesting and appealing. Not big deal of course, just personal taste

The best and most comprehensive muffin book out there. A must have.

As long as you cut the sugar quantity by half for each recipe, these are fantastic. No matter what you have around your house, you will have the ingredients to make one or several of these muffins. I've tried about a dozen so far and they've all been good. Favourites include the blueberry oatmeal, the kumquat muffins, and the simply stunning pear and honey muffins. Great for snacks, breakfast or even dessert, Ms Saulsbury's recipes are creative, easy to make and very tasty. Just remember to cut out half the sugar or more -- the muffins will come out tasting just fine (you might not even notice the difference because the original recipe calls for so much) and you'll have a much tastier treat to enjoy.

When I was thumbing through this book I was excited that there are so many recipes that I want to try. This book is seriously huge. It's nice that there are many varieties of recipes from breakfast, to savory, to gluten-free and beyond. Most of these you don't need any "specialty" ingredients for (which I am a huge fan of), if you have a well stocked pantry you are pretty much good to go. You definitely get your bang for your buck with this book.