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Home | Recipes | Quick Breads, Muffins & Scones | Page 2

Quick Breads, Muffins & Scones

I’m the first to admit that artisan bread is a labor of love, but let’s be real: sometimes you don’t have twelve hours to wait for a loaf to proof. Sometimes, you just want a warm, buttered something-or-other in your hand before the coffee gets cold. That’s where this collection comes in.

 Unlike yeast breads, these recipes rely on chemical leaveners like baking powder and baking soda for their lift. Whether you’re folding together a batch of tender blueberry muffins, “cutting in” butter for flaky Southern buttermilk biscuits, or stirring up amazing citrus mini bites, these bakes are all about speed, simplicity, and a perfect, tender crumb.

A broken slice of banana bread stacked on a white plate
Six Alabama muffin biscuits in a muffin tin.

Alabama Muffin Biscuits

45 mins

A partially sliced loaf of gluten-free banana bread on a wooden platter.

Gluten-Free Banana Bread

1 hr 30 mins

Four buttermilk drop biscuits in a bowl lined with a striped green kitchen towel.

Buttermilk Drop Biscuits

35 mins

Cooling rack with 5 ham and Cheddar biscuits on it plus a white plate with a half eaten biscuit on top

Ham and Cheddar Biscuits

50 mins

A single apple spice muffin with streusel and pistachios on an inverted metal cake tin.

Apple Spice Muffins with Pistachio Streusel

1 hr

A muffin tray with several blueberry muffins with sugar topping in tulip-style liners, with a halved muffin and a cup of coffee on the side.

Blueberry Muffins with Sugar Topping

55 mins

Six apple and white cheddar scones on a piece of parchment on top of a cooling rack.

Apple and White Cheddar Scones

1 hr 15 mins

A baking sheet filled with cooked biscuits.

Easy Cream Biscuits

30 mins

Cinnamon sugar coated dirt bomb muffin on a brown plate with nutmeg and rustic orange linens.

Dirt Bombs

40 mins

A baking sheet with seven chocolate pecan scones.

Ina Garten’s Chocolate Pecan Scones

1 hr 15 mins

A cut streusel-topped date muffin slathered with butter on a decorative plate

Date Muffins with Streusel Topping

1 hr

Three banana bread muffins stacked on top of each other with chai whipped cream on top and more muffins on a plate in the background.

Banana Bread Muffins

30 mins

A cutting board with five sweet potato biscuits on it and a square plate square with a split biscuits spread with butter and honey.

Sweet Potato Biscuits

45 mins

A rimmed baking sheet with rows of Southern buttermilk biscuits.

Southern Buttermilk Biscuits

45 mins

A loaf of Irish soda bread on a brown plate with a chunk cut out and smeared with butter.

Irish Soda Bread

1 hr 30 mins

A cast-iron skillet filled with a cooked sweet potato cornbread with two pats of butter on top and a dish of butter pats beside it.

Sweet Potato Cornbread

50 mins

A partially sliced loaf of chocolate bourbon banana bread.

Chocolate-Bourbon Banana Bread

1 hr 30 mins

A loaf of applesauce bread in a parchment-lined loaf pan.

Applesauce Bread

1 hr 30 mins

A muffin tin half filled with baked carrot muffins.

Carrot Muffins

55 mins

A woven basket of Southern corn sticks, lined with brown napkins. Pats of butter melt on top.

Southern Corn Sticks

35 mins

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