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, recent and heavenly.

Baking with lemon

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

With regards to 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 best way 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 assume thats primarily based 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 really like muffins, however they’re a lot simpler to get mistaken 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 blended.

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 unhealthy boys?! I can’t get sufficient.

Muffin batter

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

• Butter – I all the time 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 gentle brown comfortable sugar, however golden caster sugar is a good suggestion
• Eggs – you solely want two medium eggs, however two massive ought to be advantageous
• Flavour – I add vanilla extract, in addition to lemon zest. You may simply use 2tsps lemon extract in order for you
• Flour – Plain flour is greatest, after which a bit of baking powder for the proper bake
• Buttermilk – you should purchase buttermilk within the store, however you can even 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 principle 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 method.

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

I snip off the tip 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 bit of bit at first, and expend extra later, however I used the entire curd listed between the 12 muffins.

Streusel topping

I wished to do one thing a bit of completely different for these muffins in comparison with the opposite ones I’ve achieved, and add a tasty topping. Suppose crumble, assume streusel, assume one thing crunchy… and it was such a good suggestion.

• Flour – a bit of little bit of plain flour, however in terms of streusel it’s the greatest.
• Sugar – a bit of brown sugar or caster sugar works completely
• Butter – and eventually a bit of 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 gentle brown comfortable 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 circumstances 

• Add the flour, sugar and butter collectively and rub to breadcrumbs and go away 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

• Cut up between 12 tulip circumstances evenly

• Pipe the lemon curd into the muffins within the circumstances – I insert a piping bag with the tip 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 revel in 

ENJOY!

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