I’ve had this idea for a muffin for a few months, but just haven’t taken the time to build the recipe.
Last week I decided the time was NOW and I got to work. It takes a few rounds of baking to get one of these recipes just right. I liked all of my rounds so I’ll give you options so you can experiment and see which of these yummy lavender lemon poppyseed muffin recipes your family likes best.
Lavender Lemon Poppyseed Muffins
Lavender isn’t one of those herbs that people typically think of cooking with, but I LOVE it and wanted to try and find some ways to incorporate it into the kitchen more.
A word of caution before we hop into the recipe: be careful about your lavender.
Most lavender around these days is just meant for external use. Be sure to get your organic and pesticide free lavender from a trusted source. I talk about cooking with lavender in this post.
Ingredients
- 1 large lemon
- 6 tablespoons melted butter
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons lavender buds or 1 drop Lavender essential oil
- 1 box King Arthur Flour Gluten Free Muffin Mix
- 2/3 cup of milk
- 1/3 cup of sour cream
- 1 tablespoon poppyseeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
- Place muffin paper liners in 12 cup muffin pan.
- Zest the entire lemon into a medium sized bowl
- Cut lemon in half and juice into medium bowl
- In a small food processor, add butter, eggs, vanilla and lavender. Pulse for 30-60 seconds.Strain out lavender if using buds
- Add milk and sour cream to the lemon juice and zest
- Pour contents of box into large mixing bowl
- Add in poppyseeds
- Add in all liquid - lavender butter and lemon milk - and stir by hand until all dry ingredients are mixed
- Use an ice cream scoop to fill muffin tins to the top
- Place in oven and bake for 15-18 minutes.
- Let muffin cool for 10 min then remove from muffin pan to finish cooling.
Products used in this recipe (click each word to see the actual product): zester, hand juicer, lavender buds or lavender oil, small food processor.
These were moist thanks to the sour cream (you can also take this out and just use a cup of milk like the box says). I experimented with more or less lavender and lemon. It really is just to your personal liking so please experiment and let me know what you found that works for you!
Be sure to check out my other muffin recipes! My kids will eat anything in muffin form! LOL
Are you going to try this lavender lemon poppyseed muffin recipe?
