{"id":3273,"date":"2021-12-12T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bakingnook.com\/?p=3273"},"modified":"2022-04-15T13:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T17:22:10","slug":"why-are-my-muffins-dry-and-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bakingnook.com\/why-are-my-muffins-dry-and-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are My Muffins Dry & Cracked: Fix & Prevent Hard Muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This post contains affiliate links.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Muffins make a great snack or quick breakfast for busy mornings when you have so much to do. If you enjoy baking muffins as I do, you may have noticed times when your batch came out dry, cracked, and hard. If you’ve run into this problem, you’ve come to the right place! <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a general rule, muffins usually come out dry and crumbly because they have been overbaked or overmixed. Overbaked muffins become dry since most of the moisture in the muffins will evaporate overtime in the oven. Overmixing the muffins can create dense batter which will become hard when baked.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Learning about all the reasons why my muffins turned out dry helped me prevent it from ever happening again. Keep reading to see the full breakdown of why you may run into this problem, and how to fix as well as prevent it so you’ll never have to worry about ruining your muffins again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Muffins become dry for two main reasons, the muffins have either been left in the oven to bake for too long, or the batter was roughly over-mixed. Overbaked muffins will become dry since the moisture is mostly evaporated while overmixing will create a dense batter that will get dry in the oven.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Usually, when I end up with dry muffins it’s because I’ve left them in the oven for a little longer than I should have. Overbaking will pull all the moisture out of your batter, leaving you with dry, hard muffins.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy Are My Muffins Dry?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n