Lemon Muffins

I will start with one of the recent muffins. They have very nice lemon taste and a cool-looking icing!

First of all, you will need a form for muffins - the easiest way is to get a silicon form for 12 muffins. If you like, you can place paper cups inside to make your muffins more colorful and add you a pleasure of removing this paper from muffins before you eat them. Also, would be good to have a mixer or a blender - you know, to mix or to blend. Be aware of that it might happen that you have more dough then for 12 muffins. In such cases I usually make a supermuffin just on the foil substrate.

Now, what else do you need? About an hour of time (if you have some skills in baking, it's less) and some products:
butter or margarine - 100 g - it should be soft, so take it out from the fridge with some anticipation. In case you forgot, simply melt in in a pot.
sugar - 3/4 of a cup - ok, it's a quite arbitrary measure but count a cup to be 200 ml.
2 eggs
yogurt - 250 ml - sour cream or buttermilk would do as well. After all, it doesn't matter that much.
1 lemon: remove the rind (the yellowish layer of a peel. the lemon will look whitish) and juice the lemon. Put 2 tablespoonfuls of the juice apart - for the icing
also, you can brew ~50 ml of very very very strong coffee in order to make some taste contrast to the lemon. If you want it to be actually distinguishable - reduce the amount of yogurt and make it 100 ml of superstrong coffee.
flour - 2 cups + baking powder - half of a package
a bit of salt, cinnamon and vanilla. Also, couple tablespoonfuls of poppy can do a good job
sugar powder - half of a cup - this is also for the icing.
So, now it's kind of easy. Turn on the oven - let it warm up to 180C.
Take a blender and mix the butter and sugar. One by one, add eggs and mix very well after each. Add yogurt, lemon rind and juice.
In another bowl mix the flour, baking powder and spices.
Now, add the liquid part to the dry part. Mix with the spoon but only till the dough has even consistency. If you mix too long your muffins will not rise and will look pathetic (still, being tasty, of course). Distribute the dough in the muffin form and bake it for ~20 min.

How to find out if muffins are ready? Take a clean and dry knife and poke one of them till the bottom. If the knife comes out clean and dry, it's ready.

Meantime, let's take care of the icing - add 2 tablespoonfuls of lemon juice to the sugar powder and mix. Voila! When the muffins are ready, apply the icing. Be careful, first it becomes more liquid, so there might be some mess. Enjoy!