Pumpkin muffins recipe with lemon frosting. Pumpkin puree gives baked goods a bright orange color and delicate texture. The muffins are very beautiful, soft, with a pleasant aroma of vanilla, lemon and saffron.
Summary
| Cook Time | 80 mins |
| Total Time | 80 mins |
| Course | Dessert |
| Servings (Default: 10) |
Ingredients
Ingredients- Flour – 1-1.5 cups
- White sugar – 50 g
- Brown sugar – 50 g
- Vegetable oil (odorless) – 80 ml
- Egg – 1 pc.
- Pumpkin – 300 g
- Baking powder – 1 teaspoon.
- Lemon – 1 pc.
- Vanilla sugar – 1 teaspoon
- Imeretian saffron – 1 teaspoon
- Salt – 1 pinch
* - For glaze:
- Powdered sugar – 150 g
- Lemon juice – 2 tbsp
Instructions
- Peel the pumpkin, cut into small pieces, put in a glass bowl.
- Microwave the pumpkin at full power for 6-8 minutes, stirring the pumpkin every 2 minutes.
- The pumpkin pieces should be soft and easy to pierce with a fork. If liquid is formed when baking the pumpkin, drain it.
- Puree the baked pumpkin with a blender. You should get 200 ml of thick pumpkin puree.
- Pour saffron with 2 teaspoons of boiling water and leave for 10 minutes. Remove the zest from the lemon with a fine grater.
- Add lemon zest and saffron liquid (through a sieve) to the pumpkin puree. Stir and cool.
- Break an egg into a bowl, add white and brown sugar, salt and vanilla sugar.
- Beat the egg with sugar into a fluffy mass, add vegetable oil and beat again.
- Add pumpkin puree, stir.
- Gradually add flour mixed with baking powder to the dough.
- You may need more or less flour, depending on how thick the pumpkin puree is.
- Substitute lump-free thick dough.
- Divide the dough into baking tins, filling them 2/3 of the volume.
- Bake the pumpkin muffins in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
- Put the finished muffins on the wire rack and cool.
- Ingredients for making lemon glaze.
- To prepare the lemon glaze, gradually pour the lemon juice into the icing sugar and stir immediately. If the icing is thin, add more powdered sugar.
- Apply lemon frosting to pumpkin muffins.
- Pumpkin muffins with lemon icing are ready. Bon Appetit.
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