A muffin is not a small cake, and treating it like one is why so many come out tough. Cake wants air beaten into soft butter; a muffin wants the opposite, wet into dry, folded until the flour just disappears and not a stroke more. The lumps in the batter are supposed to be there. Beat them out and you build gluten, and gluten in a muffin means tunnels inside and a chewy, rubbery crumb.The dome is the other thing people chase. It comes from a hot start, a full liner and a batter thick enough to climb rather than spread. The recipes here say what the batter should look like as it leaves the spoon, because that cue survives a different flour and a colder kitchen better than a number of minutes does.For the bigger bakes that use creaming instead of folding, see Cakes and Pies. For the fried side of the same family, Donuts, and for the ones that go in a lunchbox, After School Snacks for Kids.
These sweet potato muffins are not a dense, heavy breakfast brick. They’re light, tender, and tall, with a caramelized sweetness you can’t…
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