Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

Name: Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Prep time: 50 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 710 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 Tbsp baking powder (make sure your baking powder is no older than 6 months); 1 teaspoons baking soda; 1 teaspoons salt; 2 Tbsps poppy seeds; 10 Tbsps unsalted butter (1 1/4 stick), softened; 237 milliliters sugar; 2 larges eggs; 355 milliliters plain yogurt; 1 Tbsp lemon zest; 2 Tbsps fresh lemon juice; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar (powdered sugar)

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins requires around 50 minutes from start to finish. One serving contains 369 calories, 6g of protein, and 12g of fat. This lacto ovo vegetarian recipe serves 12. If you have poppy seeds, baking powder, yogurt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It works well as a cheap breakfast. Users who liked this recipe also liked Lemon-poppy Seed Muffins, Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, and Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins.

Instructions

Prepare oven: Adjust the oven rack to the middle-lower part of the oven. Preheat oven to 375°F.

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Mix the dry ingredients:

Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, poppy seeds, and salt and set aside.

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Baking Soda

Poppy Seeds

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Make the batter: In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter and sugar together, beating until fluffy (about 2 minutes with an electric mixer).

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Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Mixing Bowl

Add eggs one at a time, beating until incorporated after each one. Beat in the lemon zest.

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Lemon Zest

Egg

Alternate adding flour mixture and yogurt: Beat in one third of the dry ingredients until just incorporated. Beat in one third of the yogurt. Beat in a third more of the dry ingredients. Beat in a second third of the yogurt. Beat in the remaining dry ingredients and then the remaining yogurt. Again be careful to beat until just incorporated. Do not over beat.

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Yogurt

All Purpose Flour

Distribute batter into muffin pan: Use a standard 12-muffin muffin pan. Coat each muffin cup lightly with olive oil or a little melted butter using a pastry brush. Distribute the muffin dough equally among the cups.

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Olive Oil

Butter

Dough

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Pastry Brush

Muffin Tray

Bake at 375°F until muffins are golden brown, about 25 to 30 minutes. Use a tester to make sure the center of the muffins are done. Set muffin pan on wire rack to cool. After 5 minutes, remove muffins from pan.

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Muffin Tray

Wire Rack

Oven

Make lemon glaze: While the muffins are cooling, in a bowl, whisk together the powdered sugar and lemon juice for the glaze.

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Powdered Sugar

Lemon Juice

Glaze

Lemon

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Whisk

Bowl

Add more lemon juice if necessary.

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Lemon Juice

While the muffins are still a bit warm, use a pastry brush to brush the glaze over each muffin. The muffins will absorb some of the glaze, so you add more glaze to each muffin if you like.

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Glaze

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Pastry Brush

Best eaten fresh and warm.