17.5.10

When Life Gives You Lemons...


...make these!

These are so delicious! Little mini perfect bite size pieces of sunshine!

After you take these tart, fabulous, lemony mini muffins out of the oven you dunk them in a lemon sugar liquid mixture and after they have cooled you top them off with a lemon glaze. Delicious, right?

This is such a versatile recipe. You can make mini muffins or a couple of loaves. Or, go for the hybrid version like I did and split the batter to bake both! If you like lemon these definitely won't disappoint. Enjoy!

 Mini Lemon Muffins
Adapted from: Barefoot Contessa Parties!

Ingredients

1/2 pound unsalted butter at room temp
2 1/2 cups of granulated sugar
4 eggs at room temp
1/3 grated lemon zest  (6 to 8 lemons)
3 cups of all purpose flour
1/2 tsp of baking powder
1/2 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of salt
3/4 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice divided
3/4 cup buttermilk at room temp
1 tsp vanilla

2 cups of confectioners sugar, sifted
4 TBS fresh squeezed lemon juice

Directions

Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease mini muffin tins (and an 8x4 inch bread pan if you want to make a loaf).

Cream butter and granulated sugar with an electric mixer or hand mixer for 5 minutes, or until light and fluffy. With the mixer on medium speed, add the eggs, one at a time, and the lemon zest.

In a medium bowl sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another small bowl, mix 1/4 cup of lemon juice, the buttermilk and the vanilla. Add the flour and buttermilk mixtures alternately to the batter, beginning and ending with the flour. Divide batter into the bread pan and the mini muffin pans (only fill cups halfway). Bake bread pan for 45 minutes to 1 hour or until cake tester comes out clean. Bake mini muffins for 11-13 minutes and rinse and regrease muffin tins after every batch.

While the cake is baking, combine 1/2 cup of granulated sugar plus 1/2 cup of lemon juice in a small saucepan on medium heat until the sugar dissolves. Remove from heat and let cool. When the cakes are done, cool on a rack with a cookie sheet underneath for 5 minutes. Dunk the mini muffins into the sugar and lemon mixture and pour mixture over loaves and saturate them. Allow cakes to cool completely before glazing.

For the glaze, combine the confectioners’ sugar and lemon juice in a bowl, mixing with a wire whisk until smooth. Pour over the top of the cakes and allow the glaze to drizzle down the sides.

29 comments:

  1. Oh, YUMMY, those look wonderful and refreshing. Just perfect for this season. Have a wonderful day! :) Petra

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  2. seriously, everytime I stop by your blog it gives me the biggest urges to start baking :) these look amazing!

    xox Vicky
    Bikinis & Passports

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  3. YUM. i love lemon in general. these shall be me treat for the week :) xx

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  4. i just printed this out! - i LOVE LOVE LOVE lemon anything - *eeeeeek* i can not wait to make them! - YUM YUM YUM!

    Hugs
    Erika
    http://tiptoebutterfly.blogspot.com/

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  5. Yumminess!
    Love the Barefoot Contessa!

    xoxox,
    CC

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  6. Just stumbled across your blog! I absolutely love the Barefoot Contessa! Ina is the first person I go to for recipes. Thanks for sharing:)

    xo, Kristin
    ELECTRICFRINGE

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  7. Oh yummy! You always have the best recipes!

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  8. oooh wow! I have a weakness for anything with lemon in it - so much more if they're sweet! :)

    love this blog - I'm going to try make these now haha

    www.romance-is-boring.blogspot.com

    xx

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  9. oh my gosh i really might made these! our lemon tree has tons of lemons right now and their almost ripe!

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  10. i love the idea of dunking AND glazing

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  11. yes please- they look so yummy! xx

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  12. ahh! yay, im doing a bake sale this weekend and have been looking for some good recipes :) CHECK!

    xoxo
    sara

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  13. Yum!!! I could eat those for breakfast! I like how te glaze/frosting isn't fussy looking--makes you just want to eat it up!

    Ashley
    http://www.honeysucklechic.com/

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  14. that looks scrumptious!! cant wait to make it...

    http://www.dailymixla.com

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  15. Sometimes I find myself wishing I could eat my computer. Like now. When are they going to make a laptop that converts images to food... Anyone on that yet? These look fantastic!

    Lovely blog :)

    Beatriz.
    thatgirlinpearls.com

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  16. Lemon cake is my fav!

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  17. I was just making Lemonade before now i'll do this haha ha ha

    Keep in touch
    xx
    Sahi
    http://barelyvogue.blogspot.com/

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  18. ... eat them! Beautiful pictures! Love these muffins!

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  19. Holy GEEZ those look amazing, I want to reach into my screen and take a bite. Thanks for stopping by my blog and post posting this LOVELY recipe.

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  20. What cheery little lemony morsels! :-) SO cute! :-)

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  21. these look yummy and gorgeous :)

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  22. This was my favorite recipe this week, find some linky love on my Friday Favorites post!
    Mwah

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  23. Ohhh MAry I'm so a diet...health problems...but my the lovely doctor forgive cause tomorrow I will bake this lovely goodies :))

    You are my best food inspiration ever:)
    HAve a lovely weekend.
    xo

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  24. These look so cute! I love lemon cupcakes =D

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  25. Yummm these look so so sooo yummy! Just found your blog and love it. I am a new follower.
    My most recent post is about food actually so maybe you could help?
    xx
    rofflear.blogspot.com

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  26. Wow, these sound amazing and so much better than the lemon cupcake recipe i found. I promise I did not know about this blog until today, but great minds tend to think alike LOL. You will understand if you visit my blog. I look forward to your posts.

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  27. Thanks for visiting my blog, Mary! I'm happy to find yours too. These Lemon muffins sounds like the perfect Spring treat, I think I'm going to have to whip them up!
    thanks, tonya

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