Lemon Muffins — Soft, Fluffy and Super Fine. A simple and quick recipe!
Although they are made from simple and available ingredients, lemon muffins are incredibly tasty: their surface is covered with a crispy crust, and their core is soft and fluffy. We decided to give them a more festive look, so we filled them with jam and decorated them with sugar icing. Let’s get started!
INGREDIENTS (FOR 12 PIECES):
For the dough:
-3 medium eggs;
-150 g of sugar;
-60 ml of lemon juice;
-70 ml of refined sunflower oil;
– approximately 180 g of flour;
-50 g of starch (if you don’t have it at hand, replace it with flour — thanks to it, the muffins are fluffier);
– a teaspoon of baking powder;
– 1/4 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate;
– grated peel from a lemon;
-a pinch of salt;
– a teaspoon of vanilla sugar (optional);
-1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric (for color; optional).
For the filling: fruit jam (we used cranberry jam; if you like sour desserts, you can try using raspberry, blueberry or currant jam).
For the glaze: 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar + about a tablespoon of lemon juice.
The eggs and lemon should be taken out of the refrigerator beforehand to warm up to room temperature.
METHOD OF PREPARATION:
1. Crack the eggs into a deep bowl. Add a pinch of salt and mix everything for 1 minute with a whisk or mixer.
2. Add the caster sugar, vanilla sugar, grated lemon peel and ground turmeric. Beat for another 2-3 minutes to dissolve the sugar a bit.
3. Add the lemon juice and oil. Mix a little (about 10 seconds).
4. Add gradually (in 3 steps) the sifted flour together with the starch, baking powder and baking soda (the last one annihilates the acidity of the lemon juice — if you don’t want to use it, add more baking powder: about 1.5 teaspoons), mixing each time until smooth. You should get a creamy batter that slowly runs off the spatula.
5. Transfer the dough to the muffin molds (if they are metal, grease them with butter or line them with paper molds), filling 2/3 of the volume of each of them.
Of course, you can bake all the dough in a cake pan (in this case the baking time is longer).
6. Bake the muffins for 20 minutes in the oven preheated to 170-180 °C. Check if they’re done with the toothpick test.
7. Let them cool, then remove them from the molds.
8. If you want to fill them with jam, cut out the core in the middle using a round nozzle.
9. Then fill the resulting holes with jam.
10. To prepare the glaze , mix the powdered sugar with the lemon juice, adding it gradually, until it gets a thick and creamy consistency.
11. Transfer the frosting to a piping bag, cutting off a 1-2 mm tip and apply it to the surface of the muffins in lines.
12. Serve the muffins with great pleasure!
We wish you good appetite with your loved ones!