Not this Muffy:
This muffy: 
(It's a crappy picture, but it's good enough. The muffy I had was at Panera Bread. I couldn't find a pic of that one, but here's some info.)
They're a cross between a muffin and a cookie, called a muffy (also spelled muffie). A certain Don Wango thought that was weird, asking me "Why don't you call it a cookin?" You tell me. What is weirder: a muffy or a cookin?
That's how bakeries describe them at least. Wikipedia says:
"The marketing trend toward larger muffins also resulted in new muffin pan types for home-baking, not only for increased size. Since the area ratio of muffin top to muffin bottom changed considerably when the traditional small round exploded into a giant mushroom, consumers became more aware of the difference between the soft texture of tops, allowed to rise unfettered, and rougher, tougher bottoms, restricted by the pans. There was a brief foray into pans which could produce "all-top" muffins, i.e., extremely shallow, large-diameter cups. However, the reality of muffin physics prevented the fad from getting very far."
I prefer the muffin + cookie defintion, don't you?
Well, now you know what a muffy is. Will they ever challenge the status of muffins?
We may never know.
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