Healthy Lemon Muffins
Healthy Lemon Muffins - an easy, tangy & sweet Lemon Muffins Recipe that is going to be your new favorite breakfast option. Made with fresh lemon juice, lemon zest and maple syrup, these Healthy Lemon Muffins are sweet and tangy both at the same time. An unique flavor everyone's going to love.
Servings: 8 muffins
Equipment
- mixing bowl
- paper tin
- muffin tray
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (or honey)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- zest from 1 lemon
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
Icing
- 1 tsp milk/almond milk
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Line muffin tin with paper liner.
- In a medium mixing bowl, mix in all wet ingredients. Meaning - Melted and cooled coconut oil, maple syrup, egg, Greek yogurt, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Stir to combine.
- Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest to the wet ingredient mix. Stir until combined.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin tin to 3/4 full. For this, you can use ice-cream scoop.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until tops are puffy. You can also check it by inserting toothpick into the center, if it comes out clean, the muffins are ready.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for about 5 minutes.
- Make & Drizzle the lemon glaze over cooled-down muffins. To make the glaze, simply mix together all the ingredients and stir to combine.