Recipes: Lemon Muffins

• Serves:12

 

Tagged:
cupcake, dessert, lemon, muffin, tea,

The tang of lemon is a great accompaniment to hot tea, so why not put it in a muffin? It's a simple recipe that allows you to personalize it with your own favorite fillings.

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Foodie Byte

We used lemon curd for the filling on some, and rich raspberry jam on others, but you can use any kind of filling you like--any flavor jam, even whipped cream.

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 t. lemon zest (freshly grated or found in the spice rack)
1/2 cup half and half
1/2 t. vanilla
1/2 t. salt
1 1/2 cups flour
1 t. baking powder
1 cup lemon curd (or favorite jam flavor)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix together butter and sugar.
Add eggs.
Add milk, lemon zest and vanilla.
Add dry ingredients: flour, salt, baking powder.
Mix together well and pour into greased muffin tins.
Bake for 20 minutes and let cool.
When cool, use a melon baller to hollow out a hole in the center top.
Fill hole with lemon curd and serve.

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