Giles In Wonderland: Sunday Fun Day!

Hello everyone,

Happy hump day! Apparently because Wednesday is the "hump" of the week (half way until the weekend) we should congratulate everyone for making it this far! So as it's only two days away this afternoon I thought I'd let you know what I got up to with my weekend!

I had a very relaxed weekend, didn't have much planned at all. Other than picking up my very first pair of glasses! I spent my morning baking my favourite muffin of all time, the lemon and poppyseed muffin! They were so scrumptious, my fiance has even been eating them for breakfast on his way to work! I am even eating one as I blog!

It was my first attempt at making these muffins and I couldn't believe how easy they were to bake! I did tweak the instructions slightly and next time I'd like to add lemon curd into the centre to make them that extra yummy!

Ingredients -

320g plain flour
2 tbsps poppy seeds
½ tsp salt
3 tsps baking powder
150g caster sugar
125g unsalted butter, melted
2 eggs
45ml lemon juice
210ml plain yoghurt (I changed plain yogurt for low fat lemon yoghurt)
Zest of 1 lemon, finely grated
100g apple, grated
100g pear, seeded and diced

For the glaze -

125g icing sugar
1½ tbsps lemon juice
3 tbsps hot water

Method

Step 1:Preheat oven to 190ºC (Gas Mark 5). Combine all dry ingredients. Beat together wet ingredients, combine the two and fold in fruit.

Step 2: Spoon into a greased muffin tin. Bake for 25 minutes or until muffins are golden brown and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Step 3: Mix all glaze ingredients together. Add more water if you like a thinner glaze. For a thick white glaze, add just enough water for the glaze to have a rich consistency to dip the muffins into.

Step 4: Plunge the head of each muffin into the mixture and allow excess to drip back into the bowl. Place muffins on a rack to let glaze set.