Lemon Curd Muffins! – Jane’s Patisserie

Straightforward home made lemon curd muffins with a lemon white chocolate muffin batter, filled with lemon curd and topped with a streusel topping!

These muffins have been requested over and over, and I actually can’t sustain with the requests. These muffins are tremendous zingy, recent 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 stated even on that weblog submit that I simply adore baking with lemon, it’s excellent for spring baking.

In the case of lemon it’s such a flexible ingredient and it will probably simply be used again 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… traditional and scrumptious bakes.

Muffins vs cupcakes

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

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

I’m not saying this to scare you off, as these muffins are sensible, 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 dangerous 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 seems like fairly a couple of elements, nevertheless it’s value it, I promise!

• Butter – I at all times use unsalted butter in baking, and half oil and butter works wonders.
• Oil – I take advantage of vegetable oil, or sunflower oil in my bakes as they’re tasteless and interchangeable
• Sugar – I take advantage of mild brown tender sugar, however golden caster sugar is a good suggestion
• Eggs – you solely want two medium eggs, however two massive must be high quality
• Flavour – I add vanilla extract, in addition to lemon zest. You may simply use 2tsps lemon extract if you’d like
• Flour – Plain flour is greatest, after which just a little baking powder for the proper bake
• Buttermilk – you should buy buttermilk within the store, however it’s also possible to make your individual with complete milk, and 1tsp lemon juice combined 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 best and greatest approach.

It’s a battle to freeze dollops of curd because it doesn’t freeze stable, and teaspoons with solely half the combination in are just a little bit taffy. Nonetheless, 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 punctiliously push some lemon curd into the muffin. You are able to do just a little bit at first, and burn up extra later, however I used the entire curd listed between the 12 muffins.

Streusel topping

I needed to do one thing just a little completely different for these muffins in comparison with the opposite ones I’ve carried out, and add a tasty topping. Assume crumble, assume streusel, assume one thing crunchy… and it was such a good suggestion.

• Flour – just a little little bit of plain flour, however in relation to streusel it’s the greatest.
• Sugar – just a little brown sugar or caster sugar works completely
• Butter – and at last just a little 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 & Tips

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 mild brown tender 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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