This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie was chosen by Betsy of A Cup of Sweetness: lemon poppyseed muffins. As a general rule, I don’t bake recipes from Dorie’s book until they’ve been selected by someone in the group, but when I saw the pick for this week I was certain I’d made it in the past. I couldn’t figure out why I would have whipped up lemon poppyseed muffins, since I’m not a fan of poppyseeds. But that’s the beauty of blogging – I scanned back through old posts and it turns out I’m not crazy – I had made them! Way back in March of 2009, these muffins had been a treat for a friend’s birthday.
I emailed the same friend to see if she’d want another batch of lemon poppyseed muffins if I made the recipe again this week. She said yes, and I got to work on Sunday morning. As I mentioned yesterday, we didn’t have heat over the weekend (by the way, thanks for the kind words yesterday – we got the problem fixed so our heat is now working – hooray!) so I had dual motives: check the TWD recipe off my to-do list, but also warm up my very chilly house with a 400 degree oven. The muffins are quick and easy to throw together, the wet and dry ingredients are combined separately and then mixed together and into the oven they go. In fact, I got mine in the oven so quickly I didn’t realize until they’d been baking for 5 minutes that I forgot the poppyseeds. Oops. A simple glaze of lemon juice and confectioners’ sugar is drizzled on the muffins once they’ve cooled. Mine was on the thin side, but no less delicious.
The muffins are a nice breakfast treat, easy to grab on the go. I laughed when I read my post about the first time I made these as I mentioned I didn’t like lemon-flavored treats, and now anything with lemon is a favorite. Funny how our tastes change over time, isn’t it? Maybe someday I’ll learn to like poppyseeds too 🙂 Many thanks to Betsy for hosting this week. You can find the recipe for the muffins on her blog or on page 10 of Baking: From My Home to Yours.
I’m glad your heat is back on! The muffins look sensational. A perfect way to start the morning.
Lemon is one of my favorite flavors too. Even sans the poppy seeds, they look perfect Tracey!
Beautiful! Those muffin cups make them look even sunnier! Oh, and congrats on getting your heat back!
They look perfect! Btw, did you ever get a Lowel Ego light?
these look vibrant and fresh, I am so glad you got your heating fixed!
What a great bright sunny muffin. Just perfect with all of this cloud cover!!!
They look really refreshing and inviting.
Love lemon! So good. And those liners are bright and sunny, too. Just like the muffins.
yummmy sun-filled muffins 🙂
@Jessica – I don’t have a Lowel Ego light. My FIL surprised me with an external flash for my camera at Christmas, which eliminated the need 🙂
Lemon… Poppyseed… I’m in!
Perfect muffins in the cutest muffin cups ever! Tracy you always do such a good job at presentation..makes me jealous sometimes!!! I need to try and be more patient and take better pitures! You always inspire me!!
what a decadent breakfast. i love lemon in every kind. they look delicious.
I’ve made these and loved them!
Wow, that recipe looks great. I haven’t had a lemon poppyseed muffin in forever. I’ll have to try!
Glad these turned out so well, even without the poppy seeds. Love the cute muffin cups!
I love lemon poppyseed muffins! I recently made Champagne Poppyseed Muffins for my blog. Instead of lemon, I used orange 🙂
I lost my heat last week! Luckily it was back working quickly. What a pain though, huh? Baking something always warms things right up though!
I love quick and easy muffins! And these ones are especially classy=)
I don’t LOVE poppy seeds either, but I did put them in this time. I really want to make these again, maybe even with orange instead of lemon. Great photos, Tracey!
Lemon poppyseed muffins have been a favorite of mine ever since I was really young! I always throw some blueberries in when I make em nowadays. Yours look delicious!
Yum….I liked these too and I am glad your heat is back on!
They look beautiful. I’m glad you liked them. They just didn’t have enuff lemon for me. Don’t know why.
Will try them again with more lemon. Glaze helped.
MMMM! These look amazing! My mouth is watering as we speak!
I put in a lot of lemon zest and the flavor dominated, big time. We loved it, as a result.
I also did not like lemon but now, I love it.
Too funny about you not liking lemon and now you do…do you think that will EVER happen with me and chocolate??? I actually love the look of these muffins without the poppy seeds. They look so elegant and pretty in their yellow outfits and with that lovely top poking up. Very nice.
Thanks for baking with me this week. Your muffins look great and I love the liners!