Lotta Lemon Muffins With Love from California

Ingredients

Muffins

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon zest, grated
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces lemon yogurt
• 1 egg
• 6 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Glaze

• 1/3 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoons lemon zest

Directions

1. 1

   Muffins.

2. 2

   Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

3. 3

   Grease or spray muffin pan with release spray such as PAM.

4. 4

   Mix together dry ingredients in a large bowl and make a well in the center.

5. 5

   In a separate bowl mix together wet ingredients.

6. 6

   Pour wet ingredients in to the well of the dry and stir together gently until there are no flour streaks, it's ok if there are some lumps.

7. 7

   Bake 20 minutes, edges should get just a little brown, test as usual.

8. 8

   While muffins are baking, prepare glaze.

9. 9

   Glaze.

10. 10

    Mix glaze ingredients together in a small saucepan over medium heat, stir until sugar dissolves and mixture simmers slightly.

11. 11

    Keep warm low heat.

12. 12

    As soon as muffins are removed from the oven poke each one several times with a skewer, then spoon glaze over the muffins, using up all of it.

13. 13

    Enjoy!

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    NOTES:.

15. 15

    The dough is much stiffer than most muffins, don't worry they still come out nice and moist.

16. 16

    I don't use muffin papers with this recipe or you lose a lot of the glaze that is normally absorbed around the sides, which adds to the moistness of the muffin.