Last week whilst at university, there was a lady outside the student shop with a table filled with plates of cookies, flapjacks and muffins. She was giving them away for free to promote some new products they were launching in the shop. So I picked up a muffin, I had no idea what it was but it looked good. It turned out to be a lemon and poppy seed muffin and it was delicious! So I wanted to recreate that flavour, but instead of muffins I chose to make cupcakes with lemon buttercream icing.
I followed the BBC GoodFood’s lemon and poppyseed cupcakes recipe to make 12 cupcakes, although I halved the icing quantity (so glad I did!) but still used the juice of one lemon. I also didn’t bother toasting the poppy seeds, I’m not really sure what difference that would make? The end result is yummy nevertheless! I love the texture with the poppy seeds and the zing of lemon is so good.
I think they would still be tasty without the icing if you’re looking for something with less sugar (and butter!) or maybe instead of buttercream making a lemon drizzle topping instead.
S. xo