Recipe: Perfect Lemon and Lime Muffins

Lemon and Lime Muffins. Muffins are the easiest to bake if you want to make some cake at home. Light, fluffy and yet cakey at the same time, muffins let you indulge in cake without having to over-worry about calories. They are light, fluffy, tangy, and taste amazing.

I substituted the lemon for orange and lime very tasty. Grated lemon peel adds flavor to this basic muffin recipe for citrus-accented homemade muffins you can achieve quickly and easily. Greek yogurt along with fresh lemons and limes are used in these simple and delicious Lemon Lime Muffins. You can cook Lemon and Lime Muffins using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Lemon and Lime Muffins

1. You need 400 grams of Butter.
2. Prepare 400 grams of Castor Sugar.
3. It's 400 grams of Self Raising Flour.
4. It's 6 of medium Eggs.
5. Prepare of Juice and zest from 4 large Limes.
6. It's of Juice and jest from 2 Lemons.
7. You need A few of drops Green Food colouring.
8. It's A few of drops Yellow Food Colouring.

Lime Zucchini Muffins- Moist and delicious zucchini muffins with a hint of lime, and a sugary nut topping. Add the lemon extract and combine. In a separate small bowl, mix the lime yogurt with the baking soda and set aside. Sift the flour, baking powder and salt together.

Lemon and Lime Muffins step by step

1. Cream together Butter and Sugar until smooth. Add Flour bit by bit then when all is smooth, divide into two bowls and set aside..
2. In a bowl whisk lightly 3 eggs and mix in the Green food colouring and the zest and juice from the Limes..
3. Add this Green mix to one bowl or sugar, butter and flour, mix until smooth and a consistent colour..
4. Rinse out the egg bowl until clean, then add the other 3 Eggs, yellow food colouring, lemon zest and juice and mix well..
5. Add this yellow egg mix to the second bowl of butter, sugar and flour and mix until smooth and a consistent colour..
6. Fill Muffin cases with the mixtures to about 2/3 full to allow for expansion..
7. Cook in a pre- heated oven for about 15-20 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the middle, comes out clean, not sticky..
8. Cool and decorate with your choice of toppings, I used buttercream with a few drops of colouring added. You could add a bit of zest on top to show which flavour they are!.

Recipe: The Most Lemony of Lemon Muffins. The secret to her bread (and the muffins I'm going to share with you) is the syrup. It's cheating, sort of: you make a lemony batter to bake, but then you pour on a sunny syrup that soaks into each muffin. Beat in the eggs along with the lime juice and lime zest. Stir in the flour, baking powder and grated coconut until thoroughly combined.