I just love lemon poppyseed muffins. The lemon flavor, the light fluffiness of the white wheat flour, and the gentle crunch of the poppy seeds as you chew makes for a delightfully sweet treat!
This recipe is a recreation of the lemon poppyseed muffin made with coconut flour. They are indescribably good. The lemon juice cuts the slight coconut flavor from the flour so you really don’t taste it at all – not that I mind the coconut flavor, but it’s nice to be able to mask it if you want to.
You simply must try them as they are so very easy to make. Let me know what you think!
Grain Free Lemon Poppyseed Muffins
1/4 cup coconut flour
4 pastured, local eggs
1/4 cup local honey of choice
1/4 cup expeller pressed coconut oil or butter
1/4 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 TBL poppy seeds
1-3 TBL fresh lemon juice (adjust based on how lemony you want the muffins to taste)
Soften coconut oil or butter and blend all ingredients together in a bowl until smooth. Bake at 350F for about 10-12 minutes. Makes about 20 mini muffins.
*This post is submitted to Kelly the Kitchen Kop’s Real Food Wednesday, The Nourishing Gourmet’s Pennywise Platter Thursday, and Food Renegade’s Fight Back Friday blog carnivals!
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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Sarah, I have been looking for a stainless steel mini muffin pan and cannot find one. I have found tin. Is that ok to bake in? What kind of mini muffin pan do you bake with?
I actually use an aluminum mini muffin pan .. I actually wrote a blog about this last night, coincidentally!! I will be posting this week which details why I still use aluminum bakeware.
I use unbleached paper baking cups to line the muffin pan. No worries about aluminum touching the food then,.
these look great! I must try them.. do you soak the coconut flour at all?.. does not need it I guess!
deb
These sound great. I've never heard of coconut flour. Is it hard to find? Sounds like a good alternative to grains. Looking forward to your aluminum post.
Hi Deb, I do not soak the coconut flour first. Coconut flour does have phytic acid that would be broken down by soaking, but not in high amounts and we don't eat it that frequently in our home, so I do not soak it.
Hi Aari, coconut flour is easily found at healthfood stores. Yes, it is an excellent alternative to grains.
I made these yesterday and they are delicious! The coconut flour keeps the light texture that bakers usually achieve with white flour. Thanks for posting!
I just made these last night. I bake with coconut flour quite often and was excited when I saw this recipe. They were delicious. I was impressed with your recipe because I didn't have to make any substitutions…that is very rare. THANK YOU!
Elizabeth Townsend
Wesley Chapel, FL
these sound delicious
Hey, these look great! The best price on coconut flour I've found so far is from http://www.digestivewellness.com/itempage-1525-24-11-1754.html
They have yummy healthy stuff : )
Hi I made these last night. Didn't have a mini muffin tin so I used a regular muffin tin with paper liners. The recipe makes 12 if you fill them just about a third full each. Took about 14 minutes in my convection oven on 325. I ate one warm and it did not have much lemon flavor (I used 3T juice as well as some zest). Hoping that they'll have more lemon flavor today after having cooled completely and the flavors melding–that sometimes happens. But they were great anyway…I've missed muffins and things like that since reducing grain. Too often the grain free stuff I find is gross. Thanks for this recipe!
Update, next day…sadly, they have very little lemon flavor. Maybe more lemon zest next time. Lemon oil would probably help too, if I can find an organic version. However, they are moist and tasty anyway.
I agree .. a little lemon extract might do wonders here. Although, they are fantastic as is too.
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When I used to make the grain version of these I used a couple of tablespoons of lemon zest in each batch in lieu of the lemon juice and got a very satisfying lemon flavor. Maybe that would zing up the lemon taste a bit in this recipe! Thanks so much for your wonderful site, I've gotten so much information and inspiration from it!!
Tina, lemon zest is a great idea! I will try that the very next time I make these. Thank you for taking the time to share with all of us.
These look great! I am going to make them this week! Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes!
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Hi Sarah, I tried to make these last night, but I could not get the ingredients to blend together. When they came out of the oven, all the eggs had sank to the bottom and I had mini baked eggs with poppyseed and coconut on top… very strange! The only thing I can think of is that I made the coconut flour wrong. I bought dried, shredded organic coconut and then put it in my food processor. It did not look anything like the consistency of wheat flour, but I thought it wasn’t supposed to. Any thoughts?
Coconut flour has been “defatted” It’s a by product from making coconut milk. You can’t just grind the coconut. That would be called “creamed coconut”- and be much to fatty to substitute for coconut flour.
I was SO excited to find this recipe last night after making my own coconut milk and then dehydrating the pulp to make my own coconut flour for the first time. Unfortunately they were a huge fail
I’m not a baker so I’m not sure what I did wrong? The bottom half of the ‘muffins’ were like an omelet and the top half was more spongy and muffin like. The flavour was okay (very, very oily) but the texture was less than pleasing. Since I’m not a baker I’m not sure how to troubleshoot. I might try again with some variations but I’d be experimenting since I don’t know what to do less of or more of!
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Thanks for your wonderful website Sarah. Regarding these poppy seed muffins. Is there any way the coconut flour amount you listed is in error? I made the batter as listed but it came out terribly runny. As a result I added another 1/4 coconut flour (making it 1/2 coconut flour altogether) and the batter seemed much more normal. Thanks again for all your wonderful ideas.
Hello! I was so excited for this recipe. I am gluten-free and have missed lemon poppyseed muffins. However, they did not turn out (as a few others described). They were mushy and did not seem to solidify. Any tips to improve this? I used fax and water instead of egg (which is what I normally do for all my muffins…without fail). Maybe they need baking powder?
Thanks!
Tracy
These are so good!!
The coconut flour works great and makes them super light & fluffy. The only thing I’d recommend is using 2 whole lemons for juice. I just used one and it wasn’t quite strong enough for me. I also used a regular size muffin tin and it makes about 8-9 of those..bake for about 15 minutes.
For those experiencing trouble with the lemon flavor: when lemon juice is heated, it loses most of it’s flavor. Try substituting lemon zest, finely grated, soaked in lemon juice for 5-10 minutes.
thank for this i love these! i sub the honey for either yogurt or cottage cheese even sour cream and use 4T xylitol or splenda and since i did not have any poppy seeds used chia seeds, added some chopped up coconut and 2T of lemon juice and a sprinkle of sugar on the top. so far everyone who had one loved it and asked for the recipe even those who are not low carb gluten free like me:)
SO making these when I get the chance.
I just wish I had that tall glass of raw milk to enjoy. Two weeks without it is KILLING me (hasn’t been delivered due to snow or lack of orders). I tried going to a low-temp pasteurized/non-homogenized milk and it just wasn’t the same.
Totally going to make these this morning because I have all the ingredients… Yes! Thanks for sharing!
These are ready to come out of the oven in about 5 minutes .. I made them right after I posted this recipe. Sooo fast. They are so good too. Try them with a bit of nut butter of your choice on top. Seems like a strange flavor combination, but we like it.
They Look awesome, Sarah
I think I’ll make these tonight!
My kids are ravenous when they get out of school. It’s a great time to get something with lots of eggs etc into them like this recipe has.
Laura DeChamps I feel for you! Hope those deliveries start back up soon.
Is there anyway to substitute stevia for honey? I am trying to eat under 30 carbs a day and eat lots of coconut fat and raw dairy fat. I have stage 4 cancer and in remission. I heard this is the best way to keep the cancer away.
We LOVE these muffins
these look and sound great
Sarah, would it be okay to replace the honey with coconut sugar or does the recipe need the moisture from the honey?
Can we come over?
Your in the Tampa area right? Where do you get raw milk around here?
Thanks! These look great. School is closed today so I will make these with my girlies.
Ah these look so good. I wish I could bake with coconut flour without using eggs (my son is allergic).
can you use egg replacer?
I don’t know. Coconut flour is so different.
Could you bake these as a loaf, do you think? I don’t have a muffin pan :/
I need to get some poppy seeds stat, these sound so good!! Thanks Sara
I made these this morning. FINALLY I’ve found a coconut flour recipe that ALL four of my children love! I enjoyed them, too, although I still haven’t come to just adore the texture of coconut flour.
I am, however, so grateful to have a quick breakfast option that pleases everyone! Thank you!
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for you Claudia Howell
Thanks Cathy Simon Baumgardner this is a huge undertaking for me but a necessary one I fear!
This just made me soo excited.. Lemon poppy is my favorite
thank you!
What makes you think they’re healthy? Even the milk is bad for them.
just made these and they are delicious! my toddler loves them!
hi i was wondering if you could make this recipe into a blueberry muffin recipe by omitting the lemon and poppies but adding blueberries… thoughts… i saw the other blueberry recipe, but i like the idea of the coconut flour!
Nicholas Cranley ?? not sure what you are doing on this page.
I made this with the zest of one lemon and 3T of the juice. Delicious!
made these but didnt have poppy seed or lemon. made them grapefruit
Mmm, looks delicious. Love it when I see a good looking recipe to discover I have all the ingredients. Oh yeah!
Made these yesterday. They came out great! I would even add less honey and they are practically healthy
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