Coconut Lemon Poppyseed Muffins

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I am sure many of you can relate. This is our first time selling a home and let’s just say I never want to do it again 🙂 I have not been able to get into my kitchen to make dinner or anything lately. It’s currently full of paint, tools, and stuff!

Coconut Lemon Poppyseed Muffins:

Ingredients
muffins

• 2/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup coconut oil
• 1 lemon, zested & juiced
• 2 large eggs
• 1 cup whole milk
• 1/2 teaspoon coconut extract
• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons poppyseeds

lemon glaze

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1 lemon, juiced (can add lemon zest if wanted)

Instructions

1. Heat oven to 400 degrees. Prepare a 12-cup cupcake pan with liners. Set aside. 
2. In a large mixing bowl, add sugar, coconut oil, and the zest of a lemon. Using  a handheld blender, or in the bowl of a stand mixer, beat together for 1 minute or until light in color and fluffy looking. Add in eggs, one at a time, beating after each. 
3. In a small mixing bowl, combine the milk, coconut extract, and the juice of the lemon. Mix together with a fork or a whisk. 
4. In a separate small mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and poppyseeds. Mix together with a fork or a whisk. 
5. Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients into the sugar/egg mixture in the larger mixing bowl. Add half the dry ingredients, mix just until combined, then add half the wet ingredients, and mix just until combined. Repeat this one more time. 
6. Divide the batter among the 12 cupcake liners. Fill each cupcake liner with batter. Each muffin cup will be almost full of batter. 
7. Cook for 16-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. The muffins will be tall and round with small cracks on the top. 
8. Let the muffins cool in the pan for 3-5 minutes and then remove them to a cooling rack to cool completely. If you glaze them while they're still warm, the glaze will sort of melt into the muffin. Or, wait about 20 minutes and then glaze them and the glaze will stay on the muffins (like in the picture). 
9. To make the glaze: Combine the glaze ingredients in a bowl and mix together. Either drizzle the glaze over the muffins, dunk the muffins in the glaze, or frost each muffin with the glaze. Add more or less powdered sugar/milk to attain the consistency of glaze you want. 

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