Recipe test with Behice Unal: Lemon & Popyseed Muffins

Behice shares her experience with us on baking the Lemon & Popyseed (L&P) muffins. Behice described her love for baking and shared the beautifully taken pictures of the delicious L&P muffins she baked. I would like to thank her for sparing the time on taking pics and writing her opinion on baking and L&P muffins. Also special thanks for trusting the recipes on this blog. Here is what Behice says: 

Hey guys!  :)

well... I dont have a blog but do follow blogs including Tuba's :) and the lovely recipes she posts with the pictures

I enjoy coooking as well...actually i prefer baking instead...well lets say a bit of both shall we? :)....I am a muffin person...sorry :| that didnt make sense did it? well... erm i like baking muffins  :) and have tried a lot from my hummingbird book. spinach and cheese and blueberry muffins are my fave i have to say ;).... 

Skimming through tuba's blog: I've found the lemon and poppyseed one...as I'm a lemon lover tooo!! i had to try it out!... 

I've used the exact ingridients, well i didnt have coconut oil so i used a bit of butter...and 3/4 of golden caster sugar instead. And used 3 lemons instead of six but i will try 6 lemons next time. 

Plus: i never knew we can add yogurt into muffins!...  :)) 

results: well... i had visitors at home and offered them some of the muffins: (compliments to the chef :D ) they loved it! not only the visitors but also my BUDGIE! who kept flying to the muffins and trying to have a taste (ofcourse i didnt let him! his not allowed sugary stuff) :)) well although they were not too sugary or fatty :)

but yeh.... thanks Tuba for sharing ur yummylicious 'try this at home!' recipes :)) I'm sure i will be trying other recipes she has posted

ooooh...and i do recommend u try out he spinach and cheese from hummingbird bakery...i'm sure they will have it online....

Behice used the silicone liners to bake her muffins

Lemon and Popyseed Muffins

Lemon is my favorite ingredient, and poppy seed is a plant my farmer grandparents have had been growing for years now. In my family traditionally we use the poppy seed for breads and lemon for salad except my mother she prefers lemon by itself like, she can have lemon as if she is having an orange. So those two popular items have been brought together by the Americans (I guess). The other day my friends wanted to get together for brunch and we decided to host it in our house. Since i have been obsessed with muffins these days, i decided to bake muffins with my two favorite ingredients. Then i set down on my beautiful mac and googled for the recipes. Although there is tons of lemon poppy seed recipes at the web it is not easy to find a good one. After some research and clicking on too many websites, i found a good one from your home based mom and i have as usual twisted the recipe a bit.

Muffin Ingredients (makes 8 muffins):

• 1 egg
• 1 cup greek yogurt
• 1/2 cups coconut oil (you can use butter)
• 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1/4 cups brown sugar
• 6 lemon zest (Attention please this recipe is extremely lemony if you want it to be less lemon flavored use less lemons)
• 1 and 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 2 tbsp baking powder
• 3 tbsp poppy seed
• 1/2 tsp salt

Icing:

• 1/2 cups powdered sugar
• 1 tbps and 1/2 tsp lemon juice

Steps:

1. Grate the zest of the 6 lemons
2. Combine the zest with 1/2 cups granulated sugar in a mortar, pestle the lemon and sugar by pressing and turning the stick in a drilling motion . (This will allow the essential oils extracted from the zest and integrate with sugar)
3. Add the brown sugar keep pestling.
4. Add the egg mix until you get a creamy texture. (at this point you can use an electric mixer we used a fork and man power since i had friends who wanted to participate making and baking process:))
5. Melt the coconut butter at the microwave or in a saucepan and let it cool then add it to the mixture slowly with a spoon while mixing.
6. Add the yogurt and keep mixing until you get a homogeneous mixture.
7. In a separate bowl mix the dry ingrediens flour, poppy seed, salt, baking powder.
8. Add the liquid to the dry ingredients mix until the flour disappears. (This part is important you do not want to over mix it you want sort of fully mixture rather then creamy one for muffins.)
9. Paper line of grease the muffin tray and spoon the mixture to the tray.
10. Pre-heat the oven 360F/180C and let the muffins bake for 15-20 mins with the help of toothpick check the muffins.
11. Mix the icing ingredients and pour the icing on top of the muffins.

Enjoy....