How to Make that Tasty Lemon Muffin
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One great way to serve our children snacks is to make them lemon muffins. Lemon muffins are delicious and are also healthy for our children as it does not have harmful ingredients unlike
those junk foods that are being sold. It is easy to make lemon muffins, all it requires are the basic baking tools and materials and the recipes of the lemon muffins.
The equipment and tools that you need are the following, an oven, muffins cups, mixing bowl, mixing spoon, measuring spoon and cups, pastry brush and muffin pan. And for the ingredients needed in making lemon muffins, you will need the following, 2 cups of baking flour, 1/3 cup of caster sugar, a zest of lemon (grated), 1 tablespoon of baking powder, egg, cup of plain milk or 1 cup of buttermilk, 1 cup of oil, either ricebran, canola or grapeseed oil. These oils are light
ones and are preferred over butter because it is healthier in making lemon muffins.
First thing that you need to do is to preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Then while this is being done, lightly grease your pan or you may place the muffin cups in the pan. Prepare the mixing bowl with all the ingredients in it mix in the baking powder, flour and caster sugar altogether. Leave it for a while and in a separate bowl beat the egg and then add the buttermilk or plain milk, lemon zest and oil and then mix it altogether very well. After you have mixed the egg and all the other ingredients, pour it in the first bowl where you mixed the flour and other ingredients.
When all of the ingredients are in one bowl, mix them very well so that the ingredients would be evenly distributed and up until the texture of the mixed ingredients shows a pebbly like texture.
This is so the muffins will be light and feathery. After the mixing process you can now use the measuring spoon and put some on the pan or the muffins cups and then put it in the oven. Bake
it for about 20 to 25 minutes until the muffins are slightly brown. While the muffins are being baked you may start with the lemon muffins toppings. The topping is very easy to make just mix
sugar and lemon juice in a separate bowl. When the muffins are done baking, remove it and then immediately drizzle on top the mixed lemon juice and sugar or you may use the brush to put the toppings on the lemon muffins.
Lemon muffins are great way to make as snack for our children or as side dish in special occasions when there are small kids around, they will surely enjoy the smell and taste of the lemon muffins. You may also put decorations on your muffins to make them look good and to catch little kid's attention, icing and fruit jellies may be used as toppings for the lemon muffins.
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