Sugar is a softener. It helps make the quick bread, or muffin soft and fluffy. It also gives it the sweet taste that people typically associate with muffins.
It depend what type they are. Icing has sugar just like sugar muffins have sugar on top and inside. Possibly muffins.{Sugar Muffins}
add sugar to the muffin ingrediant
To make blueberry muffins, you will need sugar, flour, baking powder, salt, vegetable oil, eggs, milk, butter and cinnamon. Sometimes these ingredients may vary.
Both work equally well for muffins. The only difference is that caster sugar is ground a little finer than granulated sugar. Granulated sugar might take a little longer to dissolve, but it will work equally well.
The ingredients that one needs to make chocolate chip muffins include all purpose flour, white sugar, baking powder, egg, salt, milk, vegetable oil, semi-sweet chocolate chips, etc.
Personally, just eat it, and eat the icing :)Glaze or frosting on muffins? Muffins are best without such things-- don't increase the sugar content. Muffins are not cupcakes.
If you'd like your muffins to have a sweet, crunchy topping, try this. For 9 muffins you'll need: 1 1/2 tsp of sugar 1/2 tsp of cinnamon Stir the two ingredients together. Sprinkle on top of your uncooked muffins in their cups and BAM! A delicious, crunchy topping for any muffin!
White corn meal. You need the corn meal to make corn muffins.
You can make savory muffins that you can lessen the amount of sugar and salt. Maybe a lemon muffin too or oatmeal muffin.
English muffins
It is low in calories and fat but is high in sugar
butt muffins