Rich Buttery Poppy Seed Muffins

Submitted by HeatherFeather

"A favorite muffin recipe I turn to often. Adapted from one of my favorite community cookbooks, "Enough to Feed an Army.""

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 teaspoons poppy seeds
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1⁄2 cup sweet unsalted butter (no substitutes)
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup plain yogurt or 1 cup vanilla yogurt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or lemon flavoring is nice too)

directions

1. Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners or grease tins well.
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
3. Mix together flour, poppy seeds, salt, baking soda.
4. In another bowl, using a mixer, cream together sugar and butter.
5. Beat in eggs to the butter mixture one at a time,then beat in yogurt and vanilla.
6. Hand stir together the dry mixture and the butter mixture just enough to moisten ingredients- there should still be some lumps (press out any big lumps with your spoon).
7. Spoon into prepared muffin tins and bake 15-20 miutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
8. Let cool on wire racks.

Reviews

[Mirj2338]

My office is very happy! I made these last night and brought them in today, and I have some very happy co-workers this morning! I used about a 1/2 cup of poppy seeds instead of the measly 3 teaspoons. I also used brown sugar, since I was running out of white. I made mini-muffins, managed to get about 40 out of the amount of batter here. This is a great breakfast muffin!

 

[ArctIc Mom]

I have made this recipe more than a dozen times. I double it or triple it every time because we love them so much. I usually use almond flavor rather than vanilla and use half whole wheat. I have shared this recipe numerous times. Thank you for such a yummy breakfast!

 

[LonghornMama]

Tasty cake-like muffins, light and buttery. I had vanilla Greek yogurt to use up and it worked well. Added 4t poppy seeds and used 1t lemon extract though I couldn't taste the lemon. Almond or vanilla would be nice, I'd try one or both next time. Thanks for sharing the recipe!

 

[arcticmama]

I've made these twice now and our whole family loves them! I will definitely be making them again. I use half butter, half oil, sour cream in place of the yogurt, 4 teas. poppy seeds, half whole grain flour, and 2/3 cup sugar. I also use almond flavoring instead of the vanilla. Thanks for a great recipe!

 

[RSL]

These are great! I also upped the poppy seeds - 3 tsp = 1 T. and I used just short of 2 T. I also used strawberry yogurt rather than vanilla because I had a huge tub of it to use up. The final product has a tiny slight taste of strawberry but not enough that it's overpowering at all; in fact if I didn't know it was in there I might not detect it. My husband said "Wow, these are good!" and then finished the one he was eating and took 2 more back to work with him. I will definitely keep this recipe and make these often, it's great to be able to play with the flavorings a bit!