Lemon and Strawberry Muffins
Strawberries, strawberries, strawberries. We are still picking strawberries and eating them by the bucket full!
We’ve been sending little parcels of strawberries to school for special teacher treats, and Noah has finally mastered the art of only picking totally red berries! The kids helped their Dad make jam on Friday afternoon, which turned out amazingly well, so we made pikelets to go with the jam on Saturday morning!
I am still avoiding the jam making job as I am such a failure at it. Instead, my job is making strawberry fruit leather and finding new and amazing ways to bake with all these strawberries.
I hit the strawberry baking jackpot last week when I made these really simple lemon and strawberry muffins!
These lemon and strawberry muffins are delicious, and really easy to make.
They are even easier and super quick to make if you use our homemade muffin mix, but they don’t take long to make from scratch either.
Lemon and Strawberry Muffins Using Homemade Muffin Mix
You can find instructions to make our homemade muffin mix here.
- ¼ cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 2½ cups of homemade muffin mix
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup pureed strawberries
- I cup chopped strawberries
- The juice and zest of 1 lemon
- Preheat your oven to approx 180 C (about 350 F)
- These are ‘toss everything in and mix’ kind of muffins so you don’t have to be to precise with the order of ingredients and they don’t need much mixing.
- In a large bowl mix the oil and eggs.
- Add the muffin mix and milk a little at a time and combine well.
- Add the lemon juice and zest to the pureed strawberries and stir that through the mixture, then add the chopped strawberries.
- Fill large cupcake cases ¾ full and bake for approx 20 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Allow to cool then ice with a simple mixture of lemon juice and icing sugar.
Lemon and Strawberry Muffins from Scratch
- 1/4 cup of oil
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 cups of self raising flour
- 1 cup of milk
- 1 cup of pureed strawberries
- 1 cup of chopped strawberries
- the juice and zest of a lemon
- Preheat your oven to approx 180 C (about 350 F)
- These are ‘toss everything in and mix’ kind of muffins so you don’t have to be to precise with the order of ingredients and they don’t need much mixing.
- So, mix the oil and sugar, add the egg and mix well.
- Throw in the flour and milk and mix till combined.
- Add the lemon juice and zest to the pureed strawberries and stir that through the mixture, then add the chopped strawberries.
- Fill large cupcake cases 3/4s full and bake for approx 20 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
- Allow to cool then ice with a simple mixture of lemon juice and icing sugar.
These muffins were quick and easy to make and had that soft muffin-ey goodness that I was after… I think it was using oil in place of butter that did it!
They were delicious plain, and even better with some basic lemon icing. Just combine a little icing sugar with some lemon juice and spread it on top.
We added some of our strawberry fruit leather shapes as quick and easy decorations and they looked rather Christmassy!
I hope that by the time the strawberry harvest starts to lesson the rest of our berries will be full in production because lemon and blackberry muffins sound good too!
I like to mash and freeze them into little icy poles, which is great for the weather that’s becoming warmer. These muffins look YUM!
My jam turns out like sauce which we then use as ice cream topping. The muffins sound yum
How is it you have so many strawberries every year?? What are we doing wrong? We have tiny little one but nothing like your delicious hoard :(
When and if our little strawberry patch begins to produce decent amounts of fruit I am definitely trying your strawberry leather. Mmmm looks delicious. I made some strawberry sorbet last night with frozen strawberries….soooooo good!
I wish I could tell you why our strawberries grow so well… but I have no idea really!
We do have a LOT of plants. We started with just a handful and have pretty much let them run wild. We also find that wet springs means lots of strawberries, so perhaps watering lots would help too?
Yum! I must have missed this recipe when you posted it in December! Very glad I found it, because these sound beautiful! Such a yummy flavour combination :-)