Aug 11, 2009

Making Tasty Lemon Cupcakes Out of Poppy Seeds

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 poppy seeds . In a wide variety of cuisines, poppy seeds have been given great importance due to its health properties.

In most cases, poppy seeds are more popular in baked goods such as cakes, bread, muffins, and a lot more. One popular baked recipe that uses poppy seeds and a fine choice for snacks and desserts is the lemon poppy seed cupcake. For this mouth watering recipe, you will be using sugar, softened butter, zest of lemon, vanilla extract, blue poppy seeds, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and yoghurt. For the icing as a delectable topping, you will need an icing sugar and lemon juice or water.

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.

After all the eggs have been added, you may then throw in the lemon zest and the vanilla extract. Afterwhich, add on the blue poppy seeds into the mixture. On a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. After several minutes of mixing the wet ones, you may then lower the speed and carefully add the dry ingredients and the yoghurt alternately in a 3 parts flour and 2 parts yoghurt and in a way that you start and end with the flour.

You may then start pouring the prepared mixture into its moulds and properly even out the top before placing them into the oven. For about 18 to 20 minutes, bake the mixture into the oven. To properly determine whether or not the muffins are already well baked, you can do so through a thin knife. After having securely determined that the muffins are already fully baked, you may start getting them out of their moulds and wait for five minutes to have all of them cooled down. The cooling factor is important before you start adding the icing on top to avoid melting the icing as it will look differently.

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.

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