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Paper Pans

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A few weeks ago, my friends over at Cake Art gave me a sample pack of some paper pans in a plethora of shapes and sizes. They thought I might like them. But, I don’t. I love them. You can bake and then turn right around and take your goodies to someone special. Either that or display them at home and turn your kitchen into a coffee shop which could be fun, too.

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These tiny ones make me happy. The size. The color. The slightly scalloped edge. Happy.

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And so do these tee-niny ones. Eeeeek!

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They have cylinder-shaped baking molds and regular muffin cup styles, too. Both of these are sturdy enough that you don’t need a muffin tray to bake them in. Just arrange them on a baking sheet and go.

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And look at these cuties. They have lids. Perfect to bake and take.

Since I had all these pans, I had to put something in them.

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I went for blueberries and bananas…

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… and made some yummy muffins.

Blueberry Muffins
Yield: 12-15 muffins

Yummy Blueberry Muffins

Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/3 cup butter, room temperature
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup mashed ripe bananas (or two medium-sized bananas)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup fresh blueberries (rinse and pat dry)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line tray with muffin cup papers.
  2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together with a wire whisk.
  3. Add butter, eggs, bananas and vanilla. Mix on low until just combined.
  4. Toss blueberries in a little extra flour and then fold into batter. Reserve some blueberries to place on the tops.
  5. Bake for about 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean. Serve while still warm with butter.
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Add a little butter while they’re still warm and your tummy will say thank you.

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Then tear right in.

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I had enough batter to try them out in all of the smaller size pans for fun. The large round paper cake and loaf pans would have to wait for another day.

But you don’t. Cake Art was sweet and gave me a second sample pack. So who wants it? Anyone?

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Try and control your excitement and enter for a chance to win a bunch of paper. ; )

Just leave a comment on this post and answer the following question.

What is your favorite muffin? (I know. Tough, huh.)

Deadline to enter is Tuesday, June 1 at 5 pm ET. Sorry, Time’s Up. Winner announced below.

One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Tuesday evening.

Good luck.

P.S. Cake Art has pans available in large and small quantities. Sorry, they don’t have photos… just descriptions. But here’s a site with more pan options and pictures.

Wow. I really didn’t expect so many people to want to win paper pans. Super surprised. And now I wish I had scored more sample packs from Cake Art. Maybe I’ll get more the next time I make a trip. Until then, we have a winner. I’m excited to announce this one too, because finally a low entry number one. Low like commenter #5! Yay!

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5,953 comments on “Paper Pans”

  1. Well these bananberry muffins sure do look yummy! My favorite is a blueberry crumb muffin :)

  2. I’ve never met a muffin I didn’t like. Recently made a pumpkin one with butterscotch chips… YUMMO!

  3. I’ve always loved Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Love the paper pans!

  4. oops, please disregard previous comment, meant:

    Perfect for giving away, I usually bake to share with others, love these! I like double chocolate muffins.

  5. Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins! Yum

  6. a really good blueberry muffin, with a bit of butter.

  7. My favorite muffin is from Great Harvest, it is filled with fruit and cream cheese! YUM! LOVE the Paper Products!

  8. Maybe banana nut?

  9. My favorite is lemon poppyseed. LOVE them!!!!

  10. This is going to get me in trouble.. since I really don’t have favorite muffin… I do like the lemon poppyseed one.. or something with chocolate…

  11. Cinnamon Streusel Muffins are the best! I love them.

  12. Pumpkin spice with chocolate chips – cannot be beat!! Yum

  13. All muffins are amazing. I don’t want to play favorites, it might hurt feelings. ;)

  14. I love banana nut muffin.. It’s delicous!!!

  15. I would have to say my favorite is a coffee cake muffin. A close second would be a sugared blueberry… mmmmm

  16. Pumpkin chocolate chip-I can’t live without them in the fall!

  17. Giant, moist blueberry muffins are my absolute favorite! Although Lemon Poppyseed are a close second.

  18. peach muffins are my fave!

  19. Pumpkin. Without a doubt. Optional with chocolate chips and/or cream cheese frosting. This is making me REALLY sad that there’s no canned pumpkin anywhere!

  20. A raspberry muffin. Where you work at the berries and get them to break down so there are little nuggets of berry goodness throughout…crap…off to bake another batch.

  21. I cannot say just one… lol My top two wold be a double chocolate chip muffin and the traditional blueberry (one can never go wrong with that!)

  22. I love Blueberry muffins and Corn muffins! Ofcourse they have to have a ton of butter on them! I havent had any of the muffins mentioned on here. I feel like Im out of the muffin loop!
    I love those paper trays! What a neat idea !

  23. These paper pans look awesome! My all time favorite is Creamy Banana Muffins. Yummy!!

  24. I love chocolate chip muffins…anything chocolate !!!
    Thanks for the chance !
    Happy Memorial Day To All !!

  25. I am a health nut…so my favorite muffin would be Oatmeal Blueberry Applesauce Muffins. I bake these using wild blueberries. Delicious!!!

  26. I definitely went on a late-night Perkins run last night and had a chocolate- chocolate chip mammoth muffin. The server even brought whipped cream on the side, and the combination tastes like a Ho-Ho. Yummm… :D

  27. Has to be blueberry with cinnamon streusel topping..yum. I have been wanting to try these baking papers. They look so cool.

  28. Blueberry Streussel Muffins

  29. Homemade raspberry muffins are my favorite! I have many great memories of picking fresh raspberries in the summer time and then coming home and making fresh muffins. YUM!

  30. OOOHHH, I WANT! :) My favorite muffins are my secret recipe Raspberry Muffins

  31. Perfect for giving away, I usually bake to share with others, love these!

  32. I love Cake Art! We used the 6″ round paper pans to make lots of individual cakes for my five year old’s birthday party – her guests each decorated her their own cakes. We bought frosting and most of the decorations at Cake Art. Using cooking spray, I was able to reuse the pans several times (we went with paper to save the money on buying specialty real pans). I had a cappuccino chocolate chip muffin a few weeks ago that was out of this world!

  33. Chocolate chip and banana nut are my faves!!!

  34. Blueberry! And thanks for the recipe – will try it soon!

  35. Now I’m definitely hungry for some muffins..
    It’s a tie between banana nut &banana chocolate chip; Blueberry isn’t too far behind, though!. So I think making this muffin recipe is a must for me!

  36. Oh definitely blueberry streusel! My husband and 2 year old son love those!!

  37. Fresh peach muffins!!!
    and thanks for the opportunity to win!!!

  38. Chocolate chip – mmmmmm.

  39. Definitely double chocolate chip!

  40. Favorite muffin has to have chocolate – so I would say double chocolate chip muffins!

  41. My favorite muffins are lemon muffins.

  42. I love pumpkin choc chip!!!!

  43. Banana with chocolate chips. Yummmmm!

  44. I just love moist oatmeal muffins!!

  45. Chocolate chip, warm, with real butter on it. :)

  46. One of my fave restaurants here in Halifax gives away awesome individual banana loafs after your meal…as a little take home prize…and they come in these little paper pans.

    Oddly enough, their banana bread is one of the best I’ve had so I’d have to say that is my favourite and probably what I would bake in these pans if I had them!

  47. I love, love, love any kind of fruit muffin with a streusel topping. YUM!

  48. Cranberry orange muffins have to be my favorite! :)

  49. I can’t decide between Raspberry Buttermilk Muffins or Chocolate Zucchini Muffins. I’m salivating just thinking about them. :)

  50. blueberry!!! But those blueberry banana ones look super yummy! Will have to try those!

  51. chocolate chocolate chip!

  52. I love to make pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. It’s the easiest way to get my 4 year old to eat some vegetable!

  53. hmm….i’m a big muffin lover, but i think strawberry muffins may be my favorite :)

  54. It will always be blueberry! They taste so good!

  55. Oh, Blueberry muffins always win for me.

  56. Chocolate muffins!

  57. A favorite is so hard…I just made some blackberry muffins that were so good and my sister in law gave me a new recipe for some banana muffins with a streusel topping. I guess those are my new favorites.

  58. I’m shutting down my pc and heating up the oven!

  59. my favorite is orange cranberry.

  60. Blueberry muffins are a favorite in our house. We have to make enough to share with our cat Marmalade. She loves them!

  61. raspberry.

  62. Orange-Cranberry.
    or Almond/Poppy seed…..thinking…..ok……
    Orange-Cranberry it is!!!! :)

  63. My favorite muffin is orange-cranberry.

  64. I absolutely love blueberry muffins with crumb topping. The little pans are sooo cute!

  65. Blueberry. Hands down. They are all the indulgence of a muffin/cupcake but with the practicality of healthy fruit. Yay for antioxidants!

  66. blueberry!

  67. Oh I love all sorts of muffins! But my favourite is raspberry! Maybe a little bit of powdered sugar sprinkled on top to make it pretty. :)

  68. Those pans are great …

    Favorite muffin: Lemon Poppyseed

  69. Pinch My Salt’s Orange Walnut Whole Wheat Muffins. Hands-down. That’s a lot of capitalization in that first line.

  70. My most favorite are French Donut Muffins. They were always such a treat when my mom made them. They’re irresistible with all the melted butter and cinnamon and sugar on the outside and the faint hint of nutmeg on the inside- yum!

  71. By far, huckleberry rhubarb. Deeeelicious!

  72. these are so fun! and this may be boring, but i think blueberry muffins would have to be my fave. yumm, so juicy.

  73. Cinnamon streusel with crumb topping….mmmm!

  74. Normally I would have said lemon poppy seed, but I tried baking a batch of orange marmalade muffins last week and they were super! So I may have a new favorite…

  75. Very berry muffin!!! :-) Yum!

  76. Whole wheat apple spice with streusel topping! YUM!

  77. Chocoholic chip with a ribbon of raspberry and cinnamon. Nom, nom, nom!

  78. I love chocolate chip muffins (my mom is about to head to Dunkin Donuts to get me one!), but I also like blueberry with butter!

  79. I’d have to say raspberry with a streusel topping, YUM!

  80. blueberry with crumb topping

  81. I love chocolate chips muffins, but just recently started eating blueberry muffins, only if they have butter, though!

  82. my favorite muffin is most definitely the classic chocolate chip. especially when they’re nice and melty, right out of the oven :)

  83. Has to be banana nut!

  84. Probably my first choice would be chocolate, but on that rare occasion when I’m not in the mood for chocolate, I’d go for a fruit muffin – blueberry, raspberry or cherry.

  85. Lemon Poppyseed— yum yum yum!!!

  86. Favorite muffin would have to be banana nut. It’s a classic!

  87. My absolute favorite is Carrot-cake muffins with yummy buttercream frosting!

  88. My favorite has to be the cinnamon muffins from The Kettle, a diner in my hometown.

  89. Hello!! Definitely my favorite is a banana muffin with chocolate.

  90. I love you giveaways!
    My favourite muffins are blueberry and cherry with flaked and toasted almonds!

  91. I love cinnamon streusel muffins with just a couple mini-chocolate chips added for a surprise in-side !

  92. I love banana nut muffins. Yum!!!!

  93. I just made strawberry-muffins the other day.
    Love them!

  94. Banana nut with chocolate chips! Soo yummy!

  95. orangecranberry Yummmm!

  96. I would love to win! I love taking treats to my nieghbors and these would be perfect!!

  97. Oh, now that was an easy question…my favorite muffin is without question, rhubarb sour cream!!!! Unbeatable..but I make just about anything you can think of out of rhubarb! lmao I am an addict..and I hate to waste anything..those paper “pans” are an awesome idea for gift giving!!! Thanks for sharing!!

  98. I have a recipe fro pumpkin -apple muffins that are so awesome! Maybe I need to bake something…

  99. OMG! I have been seeing these things everywhere, I’ve just been afraid to try them. I would love to fill them with mixed berries from our local Farmer’s Market!

  100. I love you giveaways!
    My favourite muffins are blueberry and cherry&almond

  101. Cranberry orange!!The sweetness from the orange and the tangy cranberries…yum!!! Absolutly fantastic!

  102. blueberry muffins…with apple cinnamon as a close runner-up

  103. Cinnamon cinnamon cinnamon!

  104. Banana muffins are my favorite! I love baking them, I love eating them–I love everything about them!
    Can’t wait to try the Banana Blueberry Muffin, though, because that’s my favorite combination of fruit!

  105. My favorite is banana nut with chocolate chips. Chocolate makes the everything in the world just better!

  106. Definitely Lemon Poppyseed!

  107. Apple muffins with streusel toppings and lemon creme. Yummo!

  108. I LOOOOOVE carrot muffins, but I’ve never found a recipe I’m happy with… suggestions?

  109. double chocolate chip :D

  110. Raspberry with crumble on top!

  111. I have two favorite types of muffins…Blueberry with a crumb topping and banana nut. Love them both!

  112. My favorites are Hummingbird Bran Yummy! Moist!

  113. Blueberry for me, please!

  114. So cute! Pumpkin muffins with apples and a streusel top are my favorite.

  115. Banana chocolate chip!!!!

  116. double chocolate, banana with chocolate chips, basically anything with chocolate! Oh, and of course, my rhubarb streusel muffins are to die for!

  117. Man, i was so between this yummy cranberry walnut muffin and these delicious blueberry + streusel muffins, but then I saw someone’s comment above discussing chocolate chip — too many to choose from!!

  118. Pumpkin chocolate chip. Or something cinnamon-y with a streusel topping. Actually, I can’t think of a muffin flavor I’d turn down!

  119. Raisin Bran Muffins!

  120. New fave ni our house is Creamchesse Banana Muffins – YUM!!!

  121. BLUEBERRY!!!! Need I say more?? YUMMY!!

  122. My favorite muffin is…angel food cake muffin with strawberry whipped cream on top…

  123. Mine are blueberry muffins made with buttermilk. But I am fond of all kinds of muffins but banana.

  124. Apple crumb or chocolate chocolate chip

  125. My favorite muffin would be those huge apple cinnamon ones that you can rip the crusty top off and just eat that, I always leave the bottom part for someone else, just give me the top.
    YUMMMMMMMYYYY.
    I love those cute little baking tins, awesome, I am a paper crafter and am drooling over them.
    Thanks for all the wonderful recipes, love your blog.
    Donna

  126. oh its gotta be pumpkin cranberry muffins… mmmmmm!

  127. mmm, muffins! I love lemon poppy seed muffins. noms!

  128. These are great. I can’t wait to try them! Thanks for sharing.

  129. I love chocolate chip muffins…but I’ll eat just about any muffin I come across :)

  130. Banana walnut is my favorite, I love to bake them and give them to friends.

  131. Anything w/chocolate or cinnamon would do just fine!!!!

  132. My fave muffin is banana walnut muffin, classic and yummy.

  133. I love fruit muffins with course sugar topping. Yum!

    These pans look great!

  134. Favorite muffin is definitely the wonderful raspberry sour cream muffins from my farmer’s market. Yum.

  135. My favorite muffins are cinnamon raisin!

  136. Lemon Poppyseed are my FAVE. Although.. I have never made them. I quite enjoy banana or rhubarb, yum!

  137. Lemon poppy seed!!!!!!!!

  138. mmm, choc chip!

  139. Lemon poppyseed!

  140. no contest here – chocolate chip is my all-time fave!

  141. My favorite muffins are chocolate chip. No fruit please. Thanks.

  142. I love corn muffins! But chocolate chip are good too :)

  143. no doubt! blueberry muffins are my favorite! i pretty much love blueberry everything – – muffins, pancakes, scones, blueberry bagels with blueberry cream cheese. smoothies! the list goes on! happy baking!!

  144. Blueberry!!!

  145. Snickerdoodle muffins! You scoop up the muffin dough with an ice cream scoop, roll the dough in cinnamon and sugar, and plop it into the pan. Delicious!

  146. It has to be blueberry muffins!! They way the small berries are warm when coated in butter YUM!! who doesn’t love blueberry muffins

  147. I’d have to say…lemon blueberry muffins.

  148. My favorite muffins are apple cinnamon… with sugar sprinkled on top of course!! I am getting hungry thinking about them, yumm!

  149. I’ve seen these before. I love banana bread, too. Hope I win!

  150. I am a huge fan of the classics. Blueberry is my absolute favorite.

  151. I love banana or pumpkin chocolate chip muffins!

  152. Cranberrry orange, lemon poppy seed is great also…..

  153. I love banana chocolate chip…. soooo tasty!!!

  154. Depends on the muffin I’m eating at the time. Always changing my favorite from cinnamon to chocolate chip to lemon poppy seed to banana nut and on it goes. But that’s okay. Muffins are such a cozy food.

  155. Blueberry or orange/cranberry. Hard to choose just one!

  156. Corn with butter and honey!
    Or blueberry- real blueberry…or apple crumb…hmmm :)

  157. When I used to go to the muffin store at the mall they had chocolate cheesecake muffins that were TDF

  158. Apple Cinnamon! Yum!

  159. Muffins are hard to choose from . . . i like pistachio, lemon poppy seed, banana nut, blueberry, strawberry . . . the list can go on and on.

    Will you post where we can purchase these little cuties??? I thought I saw them at a “Chef” place out here but not with the variety shown here.

  160. I’d have to go with chocolate chip with macadamia…its definitely a hard choice though! :) yummmmmm

  161. Blueberry!!!! It’s the ONLY muffins I like!

  162. Hard to say…Chocolate-Chocolate Chip? Lemon Raspberry Struesel? Pumpkin? Banana? I’m going to go with the Lemon Raspberry Struesel today. Yum!

  163. Those paper pans look like so much fun to experiment with! My favorite muffin is a cinnamon streusel!

  164. Almond poppyseed!

  165. I love love love the idea of these paper pans.. I love to bake and am always sharing with friends and family.. what a great idea.
    My favorite muffin.. I love just about any kind of muffin… I have a great recipe for Bran muffins..and I load mine full of raisins and other dried fruit like blueberries and cherries and apricots.. sooo yummy.

  166. I have a recipe for chocolate-orange muffins that is to die for.

  167. My favorite muffin is banana nut. Yummmm

  168. i love lemon cranberry

  169. I just ate my favorite muffin for breakfast! Cranberry-Orange is absolutely the best.

  170. Handsdown, blueberry:)

  171. Banana chocolate chip! Yummy!!

  172. My favorite muffin blueberry or red velvet!

  173. Fresh blueberry muffins are the best. Mmmmmm.

  174. Chocolate or blueberry.

  175. Those are super cute! I think my favorite would have to be strawberry cheesecake or good old fashioned chocolate chip.

  176. I’d have to go with blueberry..yum

  177. Fresh out of the oven blueberry muffins! YUMMY!

  178. These are adorable!! I love the little snap on lids that come with them ♥

    My favourite muffin is by far the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip – it satisfies my sweet craving while not being totally unhealthy

  179. Rhubarb!

  180. My favorite muffin? So hard to choose…I love a good poppyseed muffin! You can never go wrong there!

  181. I love muffins! my favorite has got to be pumpkin chocolate chip- yum!

  182. cappuccino muffins. coffee and chocolate, you can’t beat that!

  183. Banana muffins with a crumb topping, oh so yummy!!

  184. my absolute favorite muffins are my whole wheat cranberry orange muffins with brown sugar crumble on top that i made for a job interview- and ended up scoring the job of my dreams. woo!

  185. That is a tough question! I love all muffins, but I guess my favorites would be blueberry or banana nut. Can’t wait to try your recipe, combining the two!

  186. I always thought bakers who used those paper thingies were Bakers, with a capital B.

  187. Lemon poppyseed :-)

  188. These paper pans look wonderful!!!
    My favorite muffin would have to be a fresh picked blueberry muffin :-)
    Thanks for the great give away.

  189. haven’t met a muffin i didn’t like!

  190. My favourites are: caramel/banana/chocolate chips and raspberries/dough of pistachio nuts, both with a chantilly touch.

  191. I am checking out their website. I have been on a muffin binge lately.

  192. My MIL’s homemade blueberry muffins with sour cream in them and fresh picked blueberries!!!!

  193. I love to make muffins with assorted berries and chunks of cream cheese inside with heaps of raw sugar on top of course…
    I have to bake heaps of treats for a fundraiser in a couple weeks… these would be perfect.

  194. My favorite muffins are Muffin Surprise, which is what my mom called them when we were growing up. They are just basic muffins with a dollop of jam hiding in the center. And you never knew which flavor you were getting until you broke it open. Surprise! Ahh…brings back childhood memories.

  195. Pumpkin spice or banana oatmeal chocolate chip or bran and raisin… I love muffins!

  196. My favorite muffin is Blueberry!

  197. Apple crumble. Mmmm.

  198. My favorite muffin is blueberry! A classic is always a great choice!

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