Healthy Lemon Cupcakes with a Poppy Seed Twist

By Amy Feigns

Through the ages, poppy seeds have proven their significance in the medical history and as a significant element in a lot of healthy dishes. These days, more and more recipes have been brought up that highlight the use of dried poppy pods . In a wide variety of cuisines, poppy seeds have been given great importance due to its health properties.

Most often, poppy seeds are the people's favorite in various baked goods like bread, muffins, cakes, and more. One good example is the lemon poppy seed cupcake which is not just the perfect addition to any meals but as a healthy snack for a healthy lifestyle. For making this unique twist for cupcakes, you will require yourself to have a zest of lemon, softened butter, sugar, blue poppy seeds, vanilla extract, yoghurt, baking soda, baking powder, and all purpose flour. To make a fine mixture for the icing, you will be needing lemon juice or water, and an icing sugar.

To start with, grease the muffin cups properly and evenly. Have the oven preheated under the temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit r 200 degrees Celsius. While doing this, you can start mixing the sugar and butter utilizing the stand mixer within 3 minutes until it gets creamy and light. You may then start adding the eggs one at a time as you continue with the stirring with an interval of one minute in each gap.

Afterwards, you may then pour in the vanilla extract and lemon zest. You may then follow on adding the blue poppy seeds directly into the mixture. On a separate mixing bowl, mix together all the dry ingredients. After a few minutes of continuously mixing the wet ingredients, pour in the dry ones as well as the yoghurt alternately both starting and ending with flour.

Once done with the mixture, have them poured into the prepared into the muffin cups and have them evenly spread out to the top. You may now bake them into the oven for about 18 to 20 minutes. Through the use of a thin knife, you can determine of the muffins are already baked to perfection. Once you have confirmed this, you can now have the baked muffins taken out of their moldings and then have a 5 minute cool down. The cooling time is important to refrain the icing from being melted down when applied on a hot surface.

For making the icing, you must first stir the icing sugar with the lemon juice until it gets moist. Add a little in every interval while you continue stirring the mixture until you have achieved the desired texture. The perfect texture for the icing is white and creamy which will serve as the muffin's mouth watering topping. And there you go, the healthiest and tastiest thing you can go for a dessert or snack. - 27772

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