Lemon muffins with syrup

2 cups self-raising flour
3/4 cup sugar

75 g butter
1 cup milk
1 egg
grated rind of 1 large or 2 small lemons

Mix flour and sugar in bowl.

Melt butter, add the milk, egg and lemon rind. Beat well with a fork to combine.

Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until ingredients are only just dampened. Do not overmix.

Divide the mixture between 12 greased muffin cups. Bake at 200 C for 10 minutes.


1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup sugar

Stir together the lemon juice and sugar and drizzle over the muffin as soon as they are removed from the oven. I like to prick the top of the muffins with a toothpick so the flavour soaks in more. Leave to stand in the pans for only a few minutes as the syrup will harden and stick the muffins to the pans.

These are delicious! my favourite muffins yet! I am the reason there is only 11 in the picture... couldn't resist! Taking a few to my girlfriends for afternoon tea this afternoon, sharing is caring! I snuck a few white chocolate chips into the mixture but not very many, can barely taste them.