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skinny lemon poppy-seed muffins with yoghurt

Posted by on Mar 2, 2010 in cake, cupcake | 0 comments

skinny lemon poppy-seed muffins with yoghurt
I found these skinny muffins over here but altered them to contain only one tablespoon oil (optional), and no vanilla extract. You’ll get a chewy lemony experience in a skinny way. They taste like those cakes we used to have at birthday parties when we were little.

Ingredients:

For the muffins:

  • 2/3 cup sugar
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • zest and juice of 2 small lemons
  • 2 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/4 tsp. salt
  • 1 cup yogurt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tbsp. poppyseeds

For the frosting:

  • 1 cup confectioners’ sugar, sifted
  • 3 tbsp lemon juice

Directions:

Preheat oven to 180°C. Prepare your muffin pan. In a large bowl, rub together sugar and lemon zest until the sugar is moist and you can smell the lemon. Whisk in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together the yogurt, eggs, lemon juice, and oil until well blended.

Blend wet and dry ingredients. Stir in the poppy seeds. Divide the batter into the muffin cups.Bake for 18-20 minutes until the tops are golden brown and a stick comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool for about 5 minutes, and then remove them from the molds and let cool to room temperature. To make the glaze, whisk together the confectioners’ sugar with 1 1/2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Add more lemon juice as needed to get it to the consistency so you can drizzle the glaze over the muffins.

Source: adjusted from http://eatwineblog.com/
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