Low Fat Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups 1% fat buttermilk
• 1/4 cup poppy seed
• 2 tablespoons grated lemons, zest of (2 lemons)
• 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
• 1/4 cup sugar

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400 f (200 c).
• 2 in bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• 3 mix well.
• 4 in large bowl, beat oil with sugar, eggs, buttermilk, poppy seeds and lemon zest.
• 5 add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and combine until just moistened.
• 6 spoon batter into 12 large non-stick, lightly sprayed or paper lined muffin cups.
• 7 bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until done.
• 8 meanwhile in a small saucepan, bring lemon juice and sugar to boil.
• 9 remove from heat a cool until muffins are done.
• 10 when muffins come out of the oven, prick the tops in a few places with a toothpick and spoon syrup over the top and allow to soak into the muffins.
• 11 cool and remove muffins from pan.
• 12 *should you want a more lemon flavor to the muffin, reduce buttermilk by 1 tbsp and add 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice to the batter*.