Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins receipe

When I was in Texas I've had a lemon Poppy Seed Muffin every morning together with a cup of coffee. I miss that very much now, these were very good! So I'm currently trying to get a good receipe for it, I found one from Leila Lindholm, which I would like to try this weekend.

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These are the ingredients:

3 eggs
200 gr sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
100 gr butter
100 ml milk (full cream)
200 gr flour
2 tablespoons baking powder
1 pinch of salt
lemon zest of 2 lemons
lemon juice of 1 lemon
40 gr poppy seeds

Preheat the oven to 175°C. Stir eggs, sugar and vanilla sugar and heat the milk, let the poppy seeds soak in the warm milk. Melt the butter and add to the poppy seed milk. Mix with the egg/sugar dough. Add flour, backing powder, salt and the lemon zest and juice.

Fill into the muffin forms and bake in the middle part of the oven for approx. 15 minutes.

If you like to add a frosting:

60 gr soft butter
300 gr icing sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
zest of 2 lemons and juice of 1/2 lemon
100 gr cream cheese

Mix these ingredients and add on top of the cooled muffins with a piping bag.

Let's try it on the weekend! :)

Isabell