Best Lemon Poppy Seeds Muffins with Lemon Glaze
A moist lemony muffin, a little bit tart, a little bit sweet, and ready in 30 minutes. And the easy lemon glaze puts them over the top on the deliciousness scale!
Servings: 12 muffins
Calories: 184kcal
Ingredients
Muffins
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2-3 Tablespoons poppy seeds
- zest of 2 lemons
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ½ cup vanilla-flavored Greek yogurt or buttermilk
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract (you can also use vanilla extract & increase lemon juice by 1-2 Tablespoons)
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Lemon Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2-3 Tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with nonstick spray or use cupcake liners.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, poppy seeds and zest. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine vegetable oil, yogurt, lemon juice, eggs and extract. Stir to combine.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients stirring just until combined. Over stirring will cause muffins to be tough.
- Divide batter between 12 muffins cups.
- Place in oven and bake for 5 minutes at 425 degrees. Turn oven down to 400 degrees and continue cooking for 13-15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean.
- Remove muffins from oven and let cool in pan for 5 minutes on wire rack. Remove from muffin pan to wire rack and let cool remainder of way.
- While muffins are baking, whisk together powdered sugar and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. If the glaze is too thick add a little more lemon juice, if too thin add more powdered sugar.
- When muffins are cool, drizzle lemon glaze over all. Let set before storing in airtight container.
Notes
VARIATIONS
- Almond Lovers - change out the lemon extract for almond extract for tasty Almond Poppy Seed Muffins
- Blueberries- Check out my Lemon Blueberry Muffins for a real treat
- For a more herbally flavor, try Meyer lemons in place of regular lemons
- Lemon Lovers - for a stronger lemon flavor, massage lemon zest into sugar prior to adding to batter
- Vegan Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins - Use a vegan yogurt, neutral oil, increase baking soda to 1 teaspoon and substitute 2 Tablespoons of flax seed in lieu of eggs
- Gluten-free Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins - use a 1:1 flour or almond flour in place of all-purpose flour
Nutrition
Calories: 184kcal | Carbohydrates: 39g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 158mg | Potassium: 131mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 41IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 68mg | Iron: 1mg
