Lemon Muffins
March 27th, 2012
Lemon Muffins
Sometimes your children, even if they are four, can have a brilliant idea.
Like Pia for instance. She was up way past her bedtime the other night, chattering away as she likes to do about 18 hours a day (she even talks in her sleep.)
She said “mommy, why don’t you make lemon muffins for your blog?”
Usually I would have distractedly said “mmm hmm, shhh! Go to sleep!” but instead I said:
“Brilliant! Pia, I don’t think I have ever made lemon muffins before!”
So here I am with Lemon muffins. For my dear little Pia and for you! They are moist and fluffy lemon muffins with a tart and sweet flavor and a lovely little drizzle of glaze over the top.
Oh my gosh- also- The whole time I was making these, I kept thinking- what am I forgetting? I’m forgetting something- I know it!
Guess what I forgot? To take pictures. Sorry guys- I’ve lost my mind.
Lemon Muffins, makes 18 muffins
1 ¼ cups white sugar
2 eggs
1 Tbs plus 1 tsp lemon juice
1 tsp lemon zest, minced
¼ cup butter, melted
¼ cup oil
2 ½ cups flour
2 ½ tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup buttermilk
Lemon Glaze
1 cup powdered sugar
1 Tbs lemon juice
1 Tbs cream
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Prepare a muffin pan by spraying it with cooking spray.
Melt the butter in a small pan.
In the bowl of a standing mixer, whip together the sugar and eggs until fluffy.
Add the oil and the melted butter and whip to combine.
Add the lemon zest and juice and mix until well combined, (scrape the sides of the bowl down).
In a separate bowl, mix together all of the dry ingredients.
Pour the wet ingredients on top of the dry ingredients and gently fold together until just combined.
Add the buttermilk.
Scoop into the muffin pans.
Bake for about 13 minutes or until the tops are just golden and the inside is baked through.
While the muffins are baking, make the glaze.
Gently whisk together all of the glaze ingredients in a small bowl.
When the muffins are cool enough to remove from the baking pan, transfer them to a cooling rack positioned over a sheet pan.
Drizzle them generously with the lemon glaze.
Enjoy!
Brilliant child!!!
7:23 pm on March 27th, 2012
lol! thanks Vicki!
8:42 pm on March 27th, 2012
All i can say is mmmmmmmmmmmm evxaristo Pia. I love anything lemony and they should taste good around Easter, especially now since I finished my sping cleaning. FINALLY!
11:02 pm on March 27th, 2012
These look amazing. I have a few friends that absolutely love lemony desserts (cookies, muffins, sorbet etc). I am sharing this post with them!
8:32 am on March 28th, 2012
Thanks Allison!
8:39 am on March 28th, 2012
Pia has good taste — perhaps she could become your consulting editor on the blog. ;) Good luck on AHL and have fun!
8:45 am on March 28th, 2012
THanks Aida :)
8:49 am on March 28th, 2012
YUM Heather. You always manage to make my stomach grumble with joy. Can’t wait to try these.
8:51 am on March 28th, 2012
Love these lemon muffins – don’t the best ideas often come from our little ones?
9:27 am on March 28th, 2012
one of my all time flavor combos – I could taste these in my mouth as I write this! YUM
1:20 pm on March 28th, 2012
Smart girl! That drizzle of glaze is mouthwatering!
3:22 am on March 29th, 2012
My daughter had a great recipe idea for me once, Hot Cocoa Cupcakes! We made a light chocolate cake from your kid’s birthday party chocolate cake and stuffed them with marshmallow cream and added marshmallows to the top and sprinkled with hot cocoa mix. And of course, I blogged about them. But it was a great idea!
I think kids can have such an imagination that they come up with combinations that are really great! I love lemon cake, especially with an icing. This will be awesome, i can almost taste it already!
12:56 pm on March 29th, 2012
That tower of muffins looks delectable.
3:09 pm on March 29th, 2012
Hi Heather,
I made these muffins this morning and they look nothing like yours. Do you add the buttermilk to the dry ingredients or the wet ingredients?
Thanks,
Ellen
5:33 am on April 6th, 2012
I added it to the batter after I had mixed everything else together. What do your look like?
8:00 am on April 6th, 2012
Well.. they looked more like corn muffins and had the same grainy texture and the tops were spread over the muffin pan and looked like a cookie. I added the buttermilk to the flour mixture and it was all lumpy and did not mix well with the wet ingredients and I knew at that point that something was wrong. All in all, they tasted delicious and had a great crispiness but did not look as beautiful as yours. I make your banana nut muffins all the time and they are fabulous. I will definitely make these again but will add the buttermilk at the end. I have never used buttermilk in a recipe before so I wasn’t sure when to add it. Thanks for the info. I love your blog.
Ellen
3:15 pm on April 6th, 2012
I’m so sorry Ellen!! I hope they work out great next time!
Thanks Ellen :)
4:36 pm on April 6th, 2012
These look so light and delicious. Great idea to bring in the new Spring!
12:33 pm on April 7th, 2012