How to Bake Citrus-Poppy Seed Muffins

Yields: 12 muffins

Preparation time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 25 mins

Ingredients needed to make Citrus-Poppy Seed Muffins:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• ½ tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• ½ tsp fine salt
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 large egg yolk
• 1 large egg
• Freshly grated zest of 1 medium orange
• Freshly grated zest of 2 medium lemons
• 2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
• 2 tbsp fresh orange juice
• 3 tbsp poppy seeds
• ¾ cup whole milk
• 8 tbsp unsalted butter, melted

Cooking instructions for Citrus-Poppy Seed Muffins:

• Warm up your oven to 350 degrees F while a rack is placed midway within that oven.
• Line a 12-cup muffin pan with paper liners and grease them with a lashing of melted butter; set aside.
• Place the flour in a large bowl and stir in the sugar, citrus zests, baking powder and soda, poppy seeds well as a dash of salt until well combined.
• Crack the egg in a separate medium bowl and whisk it thoroughly along with the egg yolk and melted butter, until they blend into a uniform, pale yellow mixture.
• Add a splash each of citrus juices, milk as well as vanilla and beat them into the mixture until mixed properly.
• Fold it into the dry mixture until they blend together to form a uniform batter; avoid overmixing.
• Divide the batter between the lined muffin cups, until each of them are about 2/3 full.
• Bake them in the oven for about 25 minutes or until the muffins rises and are baked through.
• Place the muffin pan onto a wire rack, outside the oven, to cool for about 5 minutes.
• Remove the muffins from the mold and serve.

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Last Updated on April 3, 2013 by