Strawberry and Lemon… not a combination I thought I’d ever love… but boy was I wrong. The first time I had a strawberry lemonade after I moved to Texas, I was hooked! My favorite thing to do with a flavor combination I love? Turn it into a recipe a of course! So obviously some delicious Strawberry Lemon Muffins had to be made… and that means I get to share the deliciousness with you!
Strawberry Lemon Muffins Recipe
Muffin Ingredients:
2 1/2 cup flour
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 lemon, zest an juice
1 lge egg, beaten
3/4 cup buttermilk
2/3 cup canola oil
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups fresh strawberries, chopped
Glaze ingredient list:
1 cup powered sugar
1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 Tbsp milk
Dash salt
Directions:
-Combine flour, sugar, baking power, baking soda and salt in a medium size bowl.
-Scrape the lemon zest.
-Add the lemon zest to the dry ingredients, stir to combine.
-After hulling and chopping the fresh strawberries add them to the combined dry ingredients.
-Toss the strawberries in the dry ingredients to coat them thoroughly.
-Juice the lemon. Pour the lemon juice into a medium size bowl with the egg, buttermilk, canola oil next whisk it around to mix.
-Pour the wet ingredients into the flour mixture, stir to combine.
-Pull out your muffin tin, line with sprayed (cooking spray) paper holders.
-Scoop with ice cream scoop the muffin batter into the paper holders. You can almost fill the muffin tins to the top as the muffins don’t rise very much.
-After warming your oven to 375 degrees, place your filled muffin tins and bake for about 20 minutes. The muffin tops should be a golden brown. You can also check to see if the muffins are done by sticking a toothpick in the middle and come out clean.
-Allow the hot muffins sit in the pan until they cool a little.
-Transfer the muffins onto a wire rack to cool further.
Glaze:
-Whisk together the ingredients for the glaze, spoon the glaze over each of the muffins by the spoon full.
And there you have it! Absolutely scrumptious Strawberry Lemon Muffins! Give this recipe a try and then let me know what you think!
Laurie says
Jennifer, these look incredible! Pinning and hopefully making a batch soon!
chroncont says
These look SO good 🙂 Thanks for sharing!!!
Teresa says
I love strawberry and lemon and these looks awesome. I am going to have to make these. Thanks for posting this 🙂
The Redhead Riter says
They look delicious. I made some grain free strawberry lemon muffins and they were really good, so I know yours must taste divine!
Adelina Priddis says
Strawberry and Lemon is one of my favorite combinations. These are going on the breakfast menu this week. Thanks for sharing on Weekend Bites!
Amy says
Mmmm…I love anything lemon. These look so good! Pinning! Thanks for linking up at Best of the Weekend!
jenny says
Looks good! I love the idea of using the strawberries inside rather than as a garnish! Looks great and I pinned!
tampacakegirl says
I love this flavor combination of lemon and strawberry. Delicious! Thank you very much for joining in the celebration of #purebloglove, we enjoy having you each week. I hope to see you on Thursday at 8PM, EST through Sunday night. ~Cydnee
debattinella says
Thanks for sharing with us Jennifer – I'll be featuring tonight on BOTW!!!