If you don’t have time to make a big pie or just want to please your family with sweets, small muffins will come to the rescue. They are baked very quickly - just 15 minutes in the oven, and the fragrant dessert is ready for tea. Lemon gives mini-muffins spicy sourness and mouth-watering yellow color. They are tender and very tasty. The best recipes for lemon muffins with photos are presented in our article. They can be prepared with poppy seeds, raisins, nuts and other additives. But first, imagine a step-by-step recipe for holiday cupcakes with liquid filling and a beautiful decoration on top.
Delicate Meringues with Meringue and Lemon Kurd
The pastries prepared according to the following recipe will surely please all lovers of sweets with a delicate taste, delicate citrus aroma and cream filling, which well soaks and softens every small muffin. For tea drinking, these muffins are ideal.
At first glance, it may seem that they are difficult to cook at home. But this is not so. It is enough to follow the sequence of actions indicated in the step-by-step recipe.
Lemon muffins (pictured above) are prepared from the following ingredients:
- butter - 100 g;
- large eggs - 4 pcs.;
- granulated sugar - 140 g;
- sifted flour - 200 g;
- milk 3.2% - 6 tbsp. l .;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- lemon juice - 2 tbsp. l .;
- zest - 1 tsp;
- salt.
From such a quantity of products, 12 fragrant and tender cupcakes should be obtained.
For liquid toppings or lemon Kurd, you will need the following ingredients:
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- lemon juice - 1 pc.;
- lemon zest - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 100 g.
For meringue, the following products should be prepared:
- egg white - 2 pcs.;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. l .;
- salt - 1 g.
Despite the large number of ingredients, preparing muffins is very simple.
Step 1 - Cooking Lemon Kurd
The highlight of these muffins is the piquant filling inside, which results from breaking or cutting the product. Lemon Kurd has a delicate, but pleasant and delicate taste of lemon, expressed quite well. It has a creamy texture and bright yellow color.
Kurd should be cooked in the following order:
- In a saucepan, heat the juice of 1 lemon (50-70 ml), grated zest and sugar.
- Beat the eggs at low speeds. While stirring continuously, pour the hot lemon mass into the eggs with a thin stream. It is important to ensure that they do not curl.
- Return the cream to a small fire and, while stirring, bring it to a boil.
- Cook lemon kurd to a thick consistency. Remove the finished cream from the heat and cool.
Step 2 - Baking Muffins
As the lemon kurd cools, it's time to do some muffin dough. Step by step the whole cooking process can be represented as follows:
- Beat soft butter with a sugar mixer until creamy.
- Introduce all the eggs one at a time, each time beating them until smooth.
- Pour in milk.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add lemon zest, grated, and juice.
- Preheat the oven to a temperature of 180 °.
- Lay out the dough according to pre-prepared molds, greasing them with oil or lining with special paper.
- According to this recipe, lemon muffins should be baked for 25 minutes. Are they ready, check with a wooden skewer. Cool products.
Then muffins should be prepared for the filling. To do this, a small hat is cut out from above, the crumb inside the cake is removed (eaten), and the lid is preserved. It is still useful in order to close the filling.
Step 3 - meringue decoration
Before giving the products a festive look, the prepared notch in the middle of each muffin is filled with Kurdish. After that, the filling is covered with a lid.
While the muffins are soaked in cream, you can do meringue:
- Set the oven temperature to 200 ° C.
- Beat the whites by adding a pinch of salt and sugar. After some time, the mass should become white and dense.
- Using a pastry bag, put the meringue on the muffins.
- Put the muffins in the oven for 5 minutes. During this time, the meringue is slightly browned and becomes cream-colored. And after 10 minutes, the muffins can be served.
Features and recommendations for cooking
The following tips from experienced pastry chefs will help you prepare a really delicious and beautiful dessert, not only for family tea drinking, but also for a festive celebration:
- Before using Kurd in a recipe for lemon muffins, it should be cooled. To do this, the mass needs to be transferred to a dry and clean container, and then closely cover the surface of the cream with cling film, restricting air access. In this form, the Kurd should cool completely. At the same time, it will remain soft and soft, and no crust will form on its surface.
- Muffin molds should be filled with dough no more than 2/3 of the volume, since during baking they rise quite well.
- Cupcakes decorated with meringue can be left in the oven for a longer time, and not for 5 minutes. Then the meringue will be more like meringue. But then the baking temperature should be reduced to 160 ° C.
Muffins with lemon zest and poppy seeds
The dough according to the following recipe is prepared in just 7 minutes, and the muffins are light and soft. Want to see for yourself? The recipe for muffins with lemon zest and poppy seeds involves the following steps:
- Combine flour (160 g) with baking powder (4 g) and mix.
- Melt the butter (195 g) in the microwave.
- Eggs (3-4 pcs.) Combine with sugar (230 g) and beat with a dipping blender until smooth.
- In two stages, introduce dry ingredients into the egg mass, quickly mixing the dough with a blender each time.
- Introduce melted butter.
- Add lemon juice (60 ml), zest and a tablespoon of dry poppy.
- Cover the bowl with the dough with foil and refrigerate for 12 hours. In this case, the products will turn out to be more juicy and porous.
- Distribute the dough into tins (90 g should be put in each).
- In an oven preheated to 160 ° C, muffins will be baked for 35 minutes.
Before using the product, it is recommended to lie down in a container under the lid.
The recipe for lemon kefir with raisins
Below is a step-by-step process for preparing simple, tasty and airy cupcakes for breakfast or snack. Such lemon muffins (pictured above) can be baked in just half an hour.
The recipe consists of only a few steps:
- Raisins (1 tbsp.) Pour boiling water for 10 minutes, then put on a towel and dry.
- In a bowl, mix all the dry ingredients for the muffins: flour (2.5 tbsp.), Sugar (1 tbsp.) And baking powder (2 tsp). Grate 1 lemon zest here.
- Melt butter (100 g) and cool.
- Eggs (2 pcs.) Connect with kefir (1.5 tbsp.). Add butter and mix.
- Pour the egg-oil mixture into the dry ingredients. Gently mix the dough with a spatula and arrange in tins.
- Bake products for 20 minutes in a preheated oven to 200 ° C.
The calorie content of such muffins is quite high and amounts to 307 kcal per 100 g. It is precisely because of the people who adhere to the diet that their use should be limited.
Muffins from Julia Vysotskaya
A popular TV presenter prepares such cupcakes according to the following recipe:
- Lemon muffins are baked at 190 ° C, so the oven must be preheated to this temperature.
- Grate the peel of the lemon, squeeze the juice from the pulp (60-70 ml will be needed).
- Separate the yolk of 1 egg from the protein.
- Beat softened butter (50 g) with a mixer with sugar (50 g).
- Introduce the yolk and, continuing to beat, add the zest, baking powder (1/2 tsp) and flour (4 tbsp.).
- Beat the protein separately until airy and introduce it into the dough with a spoon. It should have a soft and uniform mass.
- Put the dough in a bowl greased with vegetable oil.
- Bake for 8 minutes. Allow the muffins to cool slightly and sprinkle with powdered sugar.