Remember when muffins were breakfast food? Before they began their Incredible Hulk transformation into a disguised cupcake? These Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins are old-fashioned, moderately sized and not-too-sweet. No icing. They also contain Greek yoghurt, so they have a benefit of a small helping of protein to further polish their dietary virtue.
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffin
- Yield: 12 muffins 1x
Ingredients
Scale
- 160 g or 1⅓ c flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 9 g or 1 tbsp poppy seeds
- 57 g or 2 oz unsalted butter, softened
- 150 g or ¾ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 214 g or ¾ c plain Greek yoghurt
- 5 ml or 1 tsp vanilla
- 12 g or 2 tbsp lemon zest (1 large lemon)
- 15 ml or 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice (same lemon)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Grease or line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt and poppy seeds.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar until fluffy (2 minutes). Add the eggs, Greek yoghurt, vanilla extract, lemon zest and juice and beat until combined (1 minute).
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
- Fill the muffin cups about 2/3 full with the batter. Bake until the muffins spring back lightly when touched, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean (12-15 minutes).
Can’t wait to double this recipe and use my new Texas-size muffin baker! Love lemon & poppy seed combo. Mmmmm
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Enjoy the jumbo-muffins! The crumb on the muffin is quite tender, and I think will hold up well to the larger size. Please let me know how they turn out.
And many thanks for including all measurements for us still using cups and tsps
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People get used to baking their own way, and I always appreciate it when the recipe is shown with weights and measures. What I like about weighing is you end up with far fewer things to wash up, as you can keep adding to the same bowl. Digital scales are really inexpensive now and will hold a good sized mixing bowl. They display in oz, grams, kilos and MLS. By hitting the “tare” button, it will go back to zero each time you add an ingredient.