Tasty lemon muffins with a lemon curd filling and delicious crumb topping.
There’s just something about lemon treats that I love lately. Maybe because they just taste so light and “springy” and remind me that winter is ending and the sun has returned.
To begin, preheat your oven to 350 degrees and line a muffin pan with papers. Set aside.
Begin melting 1/2 cup (1 stick) of unsalted butter. You’ll want this to melt and then cool a couple minutes before you use it.
In a bowl, combine a cup and a half of flour, a cup of sugar, and a quarter teaspoon each of baking soda and salt.
In your mixing bowl, combine 2 eggs…
And a half cup of sour cream…
Mix those together and then, with the mixer running on low, pour in your melted butter.
Add in 2 teaspoons of lemon zest.
And a teaspoon of juice from the lemon. You aren’t done with the lemon yet, so set it aside for now.
Now mix in your dry ingredients, half at a time, until just combined.
Take your batter and spoon a little bit into the bottom of each muffin paper, about a tablespoon or so. The batter will be a little thick, so spread it around to cover the bottom.
Next, spoon a teaspoon of lemon curd onto the batter in each cup.
Top with the remaining batter.
These aren’t ready for the oven quite yet…there’s still one more thing to do.
In a food processor (or a bowl with a pastry blender) combine 1/2 c flour, 1/2 c sugar, and 3 tablespoons of cold butter that have been cut into pieces.
Pulse these together until the mixture looks like coarse crumbs.
Spoon the topping over all of the muffins.
Bake the muffins for 20-25 minutes or until the muffins test done with a toothpick.
Remove them from the pan and allow them to begin cooling on a rack.
Now there is one last step.
In a small bowl, combine a third cup of powdered sugar and about a tablespoon of juice from the lemon; whisk them together until smooth. Add a little extra juice if you need to.
Drizzle it over the tops of the muffins while they are still warm.
Enjoy!
