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Lemon Curd Marble Muffins
Lemon Curd Marble Muffins
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These are indulgent and delicious, but also very quick and easy to make. I sometimes replace 100g of the flour with 125g ground almonds, and add a few drops of almond extract to the mix, to create lemony frangipane muffins – these are lovely served warm, with cream, as a pudding. If lemon curd isn’t your thing, try one of the variations below – the chocolate muffins are always popular with kids.

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Prep time
  • 10-15 minutes
Cook Time
  • 30 minutes
Servings
  • Makes 12
Ingredients
  • * 225g plain flour
  • * 2 tsp baking powder
  • * A good pinch of sea salt
  • * 100g caster sugar
  • * 1 medium egg
  • * 125g plain yoghurt
  • * 125ml whole milk
  • * 75g unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
  • * 150g lemon curd
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Directions

1. Put 12 large paper cases into a muffin tray. Put the flour, baking powder, salt and caster sugar in a large bowl and whisk lightly to aerate and combine.

2. Mix the egg, yoghurt, milk and melted butter together in a jug. Pour them into the dry ingredients and mix lightly, stopping as soon as everything is combined – it’s essential not to over-mix or you’ll get dense, cakey muffins.

3. Spoon a some mixture into each muffin case and top with a generous ½ teaspoonful of lemon curd. Add a final spoonful of muffin mixture to encase the lemon curd and three-quarters fill the cases.

4. Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C/gas mark 4 for about 30 minutes until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Eat on the day you bake them, ideally while still slightly warm.

Variation: Jammy Muffins

Replace the lemon curd with your favourite jam, first beating it lightly to soften slightly. Thick, fruity jams work best – a strawberry jam containing whole strawberries is perfect.

Variation: Chocolate Marble Muffins

Replace the lemon curd with 150g chocolate hazelnut spread (warm it gently first, so it’s easier to marble).

Variation: Fruity Muffins

Replace the lemon curd with 1 large, or 2 small ripe bananas, thoroughly mashed; or 75g blueberries; or 75g stoned and halved cherries; or 75g raisins or other dried fruit, such as chopped dried apricots. Stir the fruit into the mixture lightly and quickly, just before piling into the cases.

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ItalianB...
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Hi all there, Hugh, tried these ones after seeing it on german TV. My kids and I love them (for me with lemon curd, my sons....Nutella). Good recipe, go on man !

Maytime
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user-512...
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Sorry Hugh but this recipe doesn't work, certainly not as portrayed in the TV programme - we've tried it twice and got doughy muffins that stuck to the paper case, with lemon splurged throughout rather than nestled in the middle of the muffin. And the cooking time of 30 minutes is far too long, 20 minutes is plenty.

polly_po...
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oh Samhill - not just me then I thought I was going mad ha ha ha ha

polly_po...
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Tried these on sunday but the american edition of the book does the method different to that shown above (and on the programme)..... also I have no idea what a stick of butter is :O(

muddy_fo...
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I made these for our hunt meet on Saturday. They must have been delicious as not a crumb was left, I'm going to make another batch this week as I haven't managed to taste one yet!

Jen
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Made these (delicious!) muffins this morning. Made some simple changes to the recipe to make them gluten free: used Dove's gluten free plain flour plus 1.5 tsp xanthan gum. Also used Hugh's ground almond suggestion (swapped 100 g of the flour for 125 g almond flour).

user-499...
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This was a beautiful muffin, I make my own lemon curd [mrs beetons recipe] and used greek yog and they came out a treat, my husband gave them 10/10

shellibo...
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I was so eager to try these muffins, they looked amazing on the programme last night. However, the recipe on here is different to the one shown on last nights show. I made the muffins as the recipes states here and they are lovely! But it's a shame that the recipes are not the same. Good job I recorded the programme so I can try it with that recipe! But still very yummy muffins!

samhill1...
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125g plain yoghurt - this ingredient wasnt used in the program and it was only 1 egg not 2........?

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