Bread Recipes
Lemon Yogurt Muffins
Yield: 12 muffins
Ingredients
Syrup
- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest (yellow part of rind only)
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Batter
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 eggs
- 1 (8 ounce) carton low-fat lemon yogurt
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Combine the sugar, water, lemon rind and juice in a small saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring to dissolve sugar. Simmer for 4 minutes. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix well.
- In a small bowl, combine the butter, lemon zest, lemon juice, eggs and lemon yogurt and mix well.
- Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture, and stir just until moistened. Do not over-mix. (Over-mixing will toughen the muffins.)
- Spray 12 muffin tin cups with cooking spray. Fill cups with batter. Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon sugar on each muffin. Bake for about 17 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and spoon the lemon syrup over muffins while still warm. Spoon about 1 teaspoon syrup over each muffin; when you've done them all, start over. This will give the syrup a chance to be absorbed rather than all running down
the sides which it will do.
- Leave the muffins in the pan until cool or until all of the syrup has been absorbed.
Notes
Per muffin: 183 calories, 4 grams fat, 40 milligrams cholesterol, 89 milligrams sodium, 33 grams carbohydrate, 4 grams protein, 1 gram
fiber