Throughout the human history, poppy pods have been present in a wide variety of human activities like as an important health factor ad as a fine ingredient in a lot of mouth watering dishes. These days, more and more recipes have been brought up that highlight the use of poppy seeds. Poppy seeds have been a part of various dishes due to its various health benefits and the unique taste and appeal they provide.
Most frequently, poppy seeds are a favorite in a wide variety of baked goods like muffins, cakes, bread, and more. One popular baked recipe that uses poppies and a fine choice for snacks and desserts is the lemon poppy seed cupcake. For this mouth watering recipe, you will be using sugar, softened butter, zest of lemon, vanilla extract, blue poppy seeds, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and yoghurt. To make a fine mixture for the icing, you will be needing lemon juice or water, and an icing sugar.
To start with, grease the muffin cups properly and evenly. You must then preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit or 200 degrees Celsius. While doing this, you can start mixing the sugar and butter utilizing the stand mixer within 3 minutes until it gets creamy and light. You may then start adding the eggs one at a time as you continue with the stirring with an interval of one minute in each gap.
Afterwards, you may then pour in the vanilla extract and lemon zest. You may then follow on adding the blue poppy seeds directly into the mixture. On a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. After having properly mixed all the wet ingredients, you may then slow down the pace and pour in the yoghurt along with the dry ingredients alternately in way of starting and ending with flour.
You may then start pouring the prepared mixture into its moulds and properly even out the top before placing them into the oven. Bake all of the mixture into the oven for about 18 to 20 minutes. Through the use of a thin knife, you can determine of the muffins are already baked to perfection. After you have confirmed that the muffins are already well baked, you may then start unmoulding them and wait for them to cool within five minutes before you apply some icing on the top. This is important as the icing will definitely melt on top of an oven fresh muffin and will look ugly.
But to make the icing, you will mix the lemon juice along with the icing sugar until it gets moist. You may add some addition to the mixture on every interval until the texture gets perfectly smooth and fine. The appropriate texture of the icing is creamy and white which is the absolute tasty topping for your muffins. And there you go, the healthiest and tastiest thing you can go for a dessert or snack.
