Lemon muffins impress with their citrus freshness. Lemon goes well with many spices, fruits and berries and is a favorite of the tea table. Bake cupcakes in a special rectangular shape or in a round shape for cakes, put the dough in small tins and get tiny cupcakes.
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You will need
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- Curd Lemon Cupcake
- 225 g of flour;
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- salt;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 75 g of yogurt without additives;
- 75 g of fat milk;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 75 g butter;
- 150 g of fatty cottage cheese;
- 2 lemons.
- Lemon syrup cupcake
- 225 g of flour;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 75 g butter;
- 1 cup of milk;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1 large lemon;
- 50 g of sugar.
Instruction manual
1
Curd lemon muffin Put the lemons in the microwave and hold them there for 1.5 to 2 minutes at full capacity. This will allow you to get more juice from citrus. Remove the zest from the lemons, squeeze the juice and add to the curd. Beat the curd well with a mixer.
2
Sift flour, baking powder, a pinch of salt into a large bowl, add sugar and mix well. In a separate container, mix the liquid ingredients - milk, yogurt, egg. Melt the butter over medium heat, let cool and add the milk-egg mixture. Put lemon curd there. Stir with a mixer at medium speed, do not whisk.
3
Pour liquid into dry ingredients and gently mix everything with a whisk, without undue zeal. Stop as soon as everything unites into a single mass. If you interfere further, you will get a tight and heavy cupcake.
4
Put the dough in a mold and bake for about 40 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C. If you bake small muffins, it will take much less time - about 15-20 minutes.
5
Muffin with lemon syrup. Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze the juice. Melt the butter over low heat and cool. Pour milk into a bowl, break an egg into it and add lemon zest. Pour melted butter. Mix with a whisk without whipping.
6
Sift flour and sugar into a large container, add liquid ingredients and mix everything until a more or less homogeneous mixture is obtained. Put the dough in the cake pan and place in the oven preheated to 200 ° C. Bake a cupcake for about 30-40 minutes. Check availability with a dry wooden stick.
7
While baking a cupcake, mix lemon juice with sugar. When the pastries are ready, remove them and apply lemon sugar on a hot surface. Wait a few minutes for the lemon syrup to soak and harden. A cupcake can be eaten both warm and cold.
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