These are DELICIOUS! They are so light and fluffy, and lemony! They taste like summer! And, you get to use up a zucchini that’s been sitting in your fridge for a little bit too long! YUM!
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all purpose flour (then remove 2 TB and put back into bag of flour)
- 2 Tb of corn starch ( to replace the 2 TB of flour you removed)
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1 cups sugar
- 2 TB lemon juice
- 1/2 cup buttermilk (If you don’t have buttermilk, just add 1/2 TB of white vinegar to your milk and let sit for 2-3 min)
- zest of 1 lemon
- 1 cup zucchini grated (on the cheese grater)
Glaze Ingredients:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 TB lemon juice
- 1 TB skim milk (or unsweetened coconut milk)
Directions:
- Mix flour, salt, corn starch and baking powder in a medium bowl and set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs. Then add oil and sugar until well blended. Add lemon juice, buttermilk, lemon zest to this mixture and blend all together.
- Fold in zucchini until it is mixed well.
- Add dry mixture to the wet mixture and blend all together until well combined.
- Pour batter into greased muffin tin. It makes about 16 muffins.
- Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes.
- While still warm, make glaze and spoon over the muffins and then sprinkle lemon zest over the top.