Super easy, simple, and delicious lemon muffins. These muffins are so fun to make with kids as they can do almost everything from whipping up the batter and pouring it into muffin liners and kids love that!
These are my favorite muffins. Seriously, I bake them almost every week! They’re very simple, very easy to make, and they only take 45 minutes to prepare. Simply beat all ingredients together until smooth and pour the batter into muffin liners or into greased muffin pan and bake!
The reason why I’m sharing this recipe with you today is that my sister baked these muffins before and loved them but lost the recipe (I already sent it twice to her) so here I am sharing it on my blog so she can always find it here! 🙂
And finally? Top with your favourite frosting and sprinkle with lemon zest! I love cream cheese frosting, so decided to make cream cheese frosting with butter, and powdered sugar.
Jan, 2015. We filmed this quick video to show you how easy are these muffins to make! That’s my 7 years old nephew Rayan in the video, along with Sophia, Kareem, and Juliana at the end of the video.
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Lemon Muffins
Super easy, simple, and delicious lemon muffins. These muffins are so fun to make with kids as they can do almost everything from whipping up the batter and pouring it into muffin liners and kids love that!
muffins
Super easy, simple, and delicious lemon muffins. These muffins are so fun to make with kids as they can do almost everything from whipping up the batter and pouring it into muffin liners and kids love that!
Equipment
- Muffin pan
- Muffin liners
Ingredients
- ½ cup (115g) 1 stick unsalted butter softened
- ¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
- 3 medium eggs at room temperature
- ½ cup 150g Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups 200g all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 430°F (220°C). And prepare a muffin pan with muffin liners.
- In a medium-sized bowl cream butter with sugar. Then mix in eggs (preferably one at a time with mixing).
- Whisk in yogurt, lemon juice and zest, and vanilla. Give the mixture a good mix.
- Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and add them to the wet ingredients. Mix again but do not over mix at this point.
- Pour the batter into the prepared muffin liners filling each to the top, and bake at 430°F (220°C) for 5 minutes. Then reduce the heat 180°C (356°F) and bake for 15-17 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Nutrition Information
Calories: 80kcal, Carbohydrates: 16g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 1g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 41mg, Sodium: 207mg, Potassium: 61mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 15g, Vitamin A: 59IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 30mg, Iron: 1mg
This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.
© Little Sunny Kitchen
Sam says
Is it possible to sub the yoghurt for dairy free milk/buttermilk as i have all the other ingredients on hand apart for the yoghurt and don’t want to just go out for that?
Diana says
Hi Sam, unfortunately, I haven’t tested these muffins with milk or buttermilk so I can’t answer with certainty. But I would use just a fourth of a cup of buttermilk to substitute half a cup of yogurt.
Sam says
I will try this and let you know x
Melissa Ingersent says
Made these after my friend begged me to make her some lemon muffins – spent ages searching for a recipe that I liked. Glad I found this one! Would I be able to freeze any if I made a couple of batches??
Diana says
Glad that you enjoyed them, Melissa! I’m sure that they’ll freeze just fun, but I’d consume them within 3 months.
Kelly says
Hi – is it possible to switch out the yoghurt for a soya alternative?
Diana says
Hi Kelly, I’m sure that you can. Happy baking!
Bhavesh says
I have recently tried your muffin recipe and I found it very delicious in taste and so easy to make.
Barbara says
beautiful , and so yummy