What is the best part of a muffin?
For me, it has always been the top.
This list has some truly creative ideas, and I am excited to share the 10 best muffin top recipes with you here.
Get ready to enjoy this delightful roundup!
1. Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Muffin Tops
That timeless duo of peanut butter and chocolate is a taste that is tough to beat. Things get even more amazing when applesauce, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and oats are included.
According to Michelle, the brilliant mind behind this recipe, she stumbled upon these as “a tasty accident” while attempting to bake cookies and instead ended up with these delicate muffin tops.
Although they were not what she planned, I now intentionally create these mouthwatering delights multiple times a month. I am truly grateful to Michelle for her wonderfully messed-up peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, and I hope she knows it.
2. Gingerbread Muffin Top Cookies
These flavorful gingerbread muffin top cookies boast a rich taste and a buttery smoothness, essentially mirroring classic gingerbread cookies but with an enhanced size, improved fluffiness, and elevated chewiness. These treats are of such ample dimensions that just one recipe yields a mere seven cookies.
Taking advantage of a concise ingredient list of just 10 items and a quick turnaround time of 45 minutes, you can easily whip up several batches in little time. I highly suggest creating multiple sets because you won’t want to stop enjoying them once you dig in.
3. Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops
If you find yourself more drawn to tart and tangy pleasures over those of standard sweets, then these lemon blueberry muffin tops should be right up your alley. They have a delicate consistency similar to those large frosted sugar cookies available at Walmart but highlight the sweet and sour tang of blueberries and lemons.
If the additional citrus bite is too much, the glaze can be left off, though for die-hard lemon fans like myself, I would advise you to load those puppies up.
4. Cranberry Muffin Top Cookies
This dish for cranberry muffin top cookies is a must-try if you’re looking for the ideal holiday muffin top treat. These cookies are very gorgeous and would look amazing on any holiday table or in gift bags and baskets of holiday sweets.
They also feature three essential holiday ingredients, such as cranberries, vanilla, and brown sugar. They have a delicious fluffy, cloudlike texture that will have everyone clamoring for a second or even third taste.
The crunchy streusel topping is a wonderful addition, and they taste (and smell) exquisite. The ingredient list is rather lengthy, but it only takes 30 minutes to prepare 28 cookies, so they are not difficult at all.
5. Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffin Tops
These brown-flecked and burnt-orange delights may seem a bit unusual, but eating them is akin to biting into a cloud or pillow. Furthermore, their taste is excellent, providing all the best flavors of autumn, including ginger, brown sugar, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pumpkin puree, together with chocolate.
There’s every reason to adore these muffin tops.
6. Banana Bread Muffin Tops
These banana bread muffin tops lack the light and airy quality present in most of the other dishes included here. They are instead dense, chewy, and surprisingly filling.
Furthermore, they aren’t quite as attractive as the others, though if you’re a lover of banana bread, you won’t be bothered by their appearance because of their amazing taste. With the robust, sweet flavors of chocolate and banana, a subtle hint of cinnamon, and the intricate yet delicious taste of dates, you’ll have everything you want in a banana nut snack.
Also, they serve as the best mid-day pick-me-up.
7. Applesauce Oatmeal Muffin Tops
These are the muffin tops for you if you like yours more crumbly and dense. Their flavor profile is largely driven by apple, which is great for apple lovers such as myself.
Their streusel topping of cinnamon, brown sugar, butter, walnuts, and flour is a real treat. Thanks to the applesauce, whole wheat flour, oats, and raisins, they also provide a reasonably reliable fiber source.
8. Chocolate Chip Muffin Tops
These delicate, fluffy treats, whether you name them muffin cookies or chocolate chip muffin tops, are really hard to beat. They are remarkably light and showcase that great muffin consistency while being baked as you would bake cookies. It’s a winning scenario.
It takes fewer than 10 ingredients and just 20 minutes to prepare and bake. You will be in paradise the moment those decadent chocolate chips touch your tongue.
9. Blueberry Muffin Tops
I’m not sure about others, though after muffins come to mind, I can not help but immediately jump to blueberry. Despite the countless superb muffin varieties out there, I can’t help myself. I will always initially think of blueberry muffins.
Their buttery, thick, fluffy tops are their best trait, and that’s exactly what this recipe will provide. With just 10 ingredients in about 30 minutes, you’ll have some of the tastiest muffin tops that you can ever imagine.
10. Double Chocolate Muffin Tops
If “death by chocolate” sounds good to you, then these are your muffin tops. These gluten-free muffin tops, consisting of 10 ingredients, are pure chocolate decadence, and you could likely sit down and polish off the whole batch in a single sitting.
After you do, it’ll still be hard to say what you loved most: the rich chocolate flavor or the delicate, pillowy consistency.