Lemon Curd Muffins! – Jane’s Patisserie

Simple selfmade lemon curd muffins with a lemon white chocolate muffin batter, full of lemon curd and topped with a streusel topping!

These muffins have been requested time and again, and I truthfully can not sustain with the requests. These muffins are tremendous zingy, contemporary and heavenly.

Baking with lemon

So the opposite day I posted my lemon crinkle cookies and also you all liked them. They’re a scrumptious and straightforward cookie, and I am keen on them. I mentioned even on that weblog put up that I simply adore baking with lemon, it’s excellent for spring baking.

In relation to lemon it’s such a flexible ingredient and it will probably simply be used time and again and I don’t get bored. From my no-bake lemon cheesecake, to my lemon blueberry blondies, all the way in which to my lemon meringue pie… basic and scrumptious bakes.

Muffins vs cupcakes

I’ll say, I are likely to swing extra to cupcakes than muffins, however I simply suppose thats based mostly on behavior. I’ve posted countless quantities of cupcake recipes, and barely any muffin recipes, and I do know I wish to change this.

I like muffins, however they’re a lot simpler to get incorrect in comparison with cupcakes. A typical cupcake batter is four-five components, and straightforward to combine collectively and bake. Muffins? You want extra components, they usually undoubtedly shouldn’t be over blended.

I’m not saying this to scare you off, as these muffins are good, nevertheless it did take time to make good muffins. My white chocolate and raspberry muffins are heavenly, together with my cheese and bacon muffins, however these unhealthy boys?! I can’t get sufficient.

Muffin batter

The muffin combination is SO simple to combine collectively, and also you solely want a bowl and a spatula or spoon. It feels like fairly just a few components, nevertheless it’s value it, I promise!

• Butter – I all the time use unsalted butter in baking, and half oil and butter works wonders.
• Oil – I exploit vegetable oil, or sunflower oil in my bakes as they’re tasteless and interchangeable
• Sugar – I exploit gentle brown smooth sugar, however golden caster sugar is a good suggestion
• Eggs – you solely want two medium eggs, however two giant needs to be nice
• Flavour – I add vanilla extract, in addition to lemon zest. You’ll be able to simply use 2tsps lemon extract if you’d like
• Flour – Plain flour is greatest, after which a little bit baking powder for the proper bake
• Buttermilk – you should purchase buttermilk within the store, however you too can make your personal with entire milk, and 1tsp lemon juice blended in, 5 minutes earlier than utilizing within the recipe
• Chocolate – I used some white chocolate chips, however a chopped up bar of chocolate works wonders

The lemon curd

The lemon curd is clearly the primary half right here, because it’s within the title. I attempted other ways of doing the lemon curd, however genuinely discovered piping the lemon curd into the muffins the simplest and greatest manner.

It’s a battle to freeze dollops of curd because it doesn’t freeze stable, and teaspoons with solely half the combination in are a little bit bit taffy. Nevertheless, including all of the combination between the 12 instances, and utilizing a piping bag and piping the lemon curd into the muffin was excellent.

I snip off the top of the piping bag, and calmly push it into the highest of the muffin, and thoroughly push some lemon curd into the muffin. You are able to do a little bit bit at first, and expend extra later, however I used all the curd listed between the 12 muffins.

Streusel topping

I wished to do one thing a little bit totally different for these muffins in comparison with the opposite ones I’ve finished, and add a tasty topping. Assume crumble, suppose streusel, suppose one thing crunchy… and it was such a good suggestion.

• Flour – a little bit little bit of plain flour, however in the case of streusel it’s the greatest.
• Sugar – a little bit brown sugar or caster sugar works completely
• Butter – and eventually a little bit little bit of unsalted butter rubbed in to make a breadcrumb texture.

As soon as the muffins have had the lemon curd inserted in, I sprinkle on the streusel topping and bake the muffins within the oven till golden.

Ideas & Methods

Streusel topping

• 45 g plain flour
• 30 g caster sugar
• 15 g unsalted butter

Muffin combine

• 75 g unsalted butter (melted)
• 75 ml vegetable oil
• 175 g gentle brown smooth sugar
• 2 medium eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• Zest of 1-2 lemons
• 250 g plain flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• Pinch of salt
• 125 ml buttermilk
• 150 g white chocolate chips
• 200 g lemon curd

• Preheat the oven to 180ºc fan and prep 12 tulip instances 

• Add the flour, sugar and butter collectively and rub to breadcrumbs and depart to the aspect for now

• Add the butter, oil, sugar and eggs to a bowl and blend

• Add the vanilla and lemon zest combine

• Add the flour, baking powder and salt and blend

• Add the buttermilk and stir collectively

• Add the white chocolate chips and stir

• Break up between 12 tulip instances evenly

• Pipe the lemon curd into the muffins within the instances – I insert a piping bag with the top snipped off into the highest of the muffin and pipe the lemon curd in

• Sprinkle over the streusel topping

• Bake for 22-25 minutes till golden

• Depart to chill for 20-Half-hour and luxuriate in 

ENJOY!

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