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While a leisurely morning preparing avocado egg toast and a spinach quiche sounds like the ideal beginning to the day, it's not always possible to take the extra time to cook an extravagant meal. But that doesn't mean your breakfast can't be delicious. You just need the right tool to help you whip up nutritious snacks you can enjoy even when you're in a hurry.
This silicone muffin pan is a piece of bakeware you'll wish you had bought sooner. Not only is it much easier to clean than metal bakeware since nothing sticks to it, but right now, you can grab one for just $9 at Amazon.
To buy: Caketime 12 Cup Silicone Muffin Pan, $8.98 with coupon (was $13.99), amazon.com
This muffin pan is made from flexible and lightweight silicone. Each of the 12 cups on the pan measure 2.75 inches in diameter, which will make a standard snack-sized muffin. And unlike a metal muffin tin, it can be folded up and slipped inside a cabinet or drawer when it's not being used to save space. But the real reason you want this muffin pan is because the silicone material makes releasing muffins from the cups effortless, and it's so much easier to clean than its metal counterpart.
The typical aluminum muffin tin requires a high stakes game of experimentation to make sure your muffins don't stick to the sides. There are times when you can coat the inside of each cup with oil and flour, and still the muffins rip and crumble as you try to pry them out—leaving you with unsightly, sloppy looking baked goods that don't reflect the work that went into preparing them. And sure, you can spend the extra money to buy paper muffin tin liners, but chances are, your muffins will stick to those, too.
With this muffin pan, you just gently push the bottom of the cups, and the muffins will slide right out. You could even flip the entire pan upside down and bend each side to remove them all at once—no banging it on the counter top to loosen up the muffins required, as I personally have had to do so many times with a metal muffin tin.
And while most rigid muffin tins are difficult to maneuver with a sponge to remove any leftover crumbs, the flexible silicone actually makes it easy to get inside the cups and remove any debris. In fact, you can even fold it inside out to rinse it clean of any leftover oil or crumbs. Here's just one pro-tip to consider before using it: If you slide this muffin tin onto a metal sheet before putting it on the oven, that will make it so much easier to remove when your muffins are done baking.
Over 14,700 Amazon shoppers love this muffin pan thanks to the fact that it's handy for creating nutritious on-the-go breakfasts and other snacks, including muffin tin omelets and mini quiches.
One shopper who uses it to make breakfast omelet bites wrote that "A small spray of oil in the silicone pan before loading with whatever goodies you are baking and they will pop right out when done baking. No fuss!"
Another shopper wrote that they use it to make frittatas, and added that "the pan cleans with no scrubbing required."
If you're looking to replace your old metal muffin tins with the easy to clean and store silicone version, grab this Caketime muffin pan right now, while it's still only $9.
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