The first time I tried a lemon poppyseed muffin was when I created these Healthy Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins, and I now understand what I had been missing all this time. I've always personally been a boring bran muffin kind of girl, but now I'm a sassy, zesty lemon poppy seed muffin kind of girl, and I now have a lot more fun! These muffins are moist and packed with delicious flavor. Watch me make them below and share them with your friends and family!
How To Make Muffins Perfect Every time
Muffins are one of the easiest grab and go food, especially if you bake them in little muffin paper cups. You just peel and eat wherever, whenever! I've even mentioned before how easy they are to make. All you really do is combine everything, scoop into a greased muffin tin and they come out ready for on the go. With these muffins, you can't go wrong even if you adjust thee flavors. You like more lemon, up the lemon. You like more poppyseed, up the poppyseed. We've given you the perfect muffin base so you can honestly add any flavors to the base and come out with the perfect muffin every time.
All Kinds Of Low carb Muffins!
We don't just do sweet muffins around the KetoConnect household. We've got muffins for all your moods! In my opinion, these lemon poppy seed muffins are a perfect afternoon snack. So, what if you're looking for breakfast? Make our High Fiber Muffins. Looking for lunch? Make our Pizza Zucchini Muffins. What about looking for dessert? Make our Low Carb Chocolate Muffins. Like I said, all your moods and times of eating are covered!
Healthy Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
To be completely honest, these muffins may look a little familiar if you've made another one of our recipes. We used the recipe from my all time favorite dessert, Olive Oil Cake, as the base for these muffins. The cake has a dense, moist, rich flavor that we knew would not only repurpose well for a great muffin, but would make the best healthy lemon poppy seed muffins!
Recipe can be quickly added to MyFitnessPal - Search "KetoConnect - Lemon Poppyseed Muffin"
Low Carb Lemon Poppyseed Muffins Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup Coconut flour
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 4 large eggs
- 4 tbsp Low Carb Sugar Substitute
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 tbsp poppy seeds
- 1/2 tsp lemon zest (you can add more!)
- 1.5 tsp Baking powder
- 1/4 tsp Pink Himalayan Salt
Instructions:
- In one bowl combine the olive oil, eggs, lemon juice, and lemon zest.
- In another bowl combine the coconut flour, erythritol, baking powder and salt.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet in two batches as you combine. Add the poppy seeds and combine again.
- Grease a muffin tin or place muffin cups in the tin and evenly distribute the batter among 12 muffins. We like to use a cookie scooper!
- Place in a 350 degree oven for 20-22 minutes. Allow to cool before digging in!
- Store in a ziplock or sealable container in the fridge up to 2 weeks or freeze up to two months.
Notes
Written by
Megha Barot
Megha has always been a passionate cook, but she took this to a new level after starting her keo journey in 2015. She loves creating new recipes and producing educational content for KetoConnect, which she co-founded in 2016 with Matt. Her passion for healthy eating and personal development continues to thrive. She's the proud mom of two awesome kids.
Are the proportions correct? Half cup of coconut flour, but half cup of oil and 4 eggs???. Seems to be way low flour.
Thanks
I made one batch with sugar and one batch with stevia. Both batches the proportion of dry to wet liquid made a great batter. The dough was perfect for muffins.
I love lemon, but hate poppyseeds. Do you think I can leave them out completely or do I need to replace them with something?
You can leave them out, shouldn’t be a problem at all!
Matt and Megha – THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! You can not imagine how much your easy to follow recipes are changing my life! Seriously, this old carb addict was ruining her health and joy quote with that addiction. These recipes help me keep on my keto eating plan without “hearing that bad carb siren”! ? ❌⭕️❌
Aww, thanks so much Carollyn! We’re glad you’re finding our recipes beneficial for your diet!
Getting ready to make the Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins.
Are they made in mini muffin pan or regular sized pan?
We use a normal size pan but they come out on the small size. If you want larger muffins you can make these into 9 normal sized muffins.
Used costco organic cold-pressed olive oil which has a potent taste by itself, my muffins taste like olive oil. Very faint aftertaste of lemon, and I used 5 Tbsp lemon juice. I did not have lemon zest, maybe that is truly needed? May retry with coconut oil instead of olive oil.
Ya, you could try coconut oil or butter. We also use a pretty strong olive oil and the taste really doesn’t come through much. Sorry you ran into that problem.
Would I be able to use truvia instead of erythritol?
Yep, that will work.
would i be able to substitute the erythritol with truvia?
Yep!
What other sweetener could I use besides erythritol?
Xylitol, swerve, pyure. Basically and granular sugar substitute will work.
I don’t have erythritol…can I use stevia instead??
Is it liquid or powdered stevia? If liquid it may not work because you need to replace the volume of the erythritol in the recipe.
Hi !
I joined My Fitness Pal because I could enter your recipe in it’s entirity. Their carbcount comes to 5 p serving, just as your recipe states, but they don’t offer a count for fibre…. where did you get that? Did you use another calculator, or can one adjust it in My Fitness Pal?
In the settings of MFP you can change the nutrients you’re tracking. You can configure it to track sodium.
I used half poppy seeds and half chia seeds. Also used half mild olive oil and half avocado oil. Turned out not too bad. Thanks
Woah – great change ups! Thanks for sharing.
I made these tonight on a whim, they turned out so good. I think I added a bit too much lemon zest lol but still quite tasty for a non Baker beginner Keto gal! Thanks for the easy recipe guys! ??
Yay!! This are one of our favorite, simple recipes 🙂
Can I use butter in place of oil?
I did and they turned out fine.
Hi guys! I must say I enjoy every single one of your recipes. In this particular one, can the olive oil be replaced by lets say cocconut oil? Thank you and keep the awesome recipes coming!!!
Yes, you can use basically any fat source in this recipe!
Love your recipes so far. Getting ready to make these but I have one question. In the video, you say 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder but the written recipe calls for 3/4 tsp. I’m guessing that could make a difference? Baking is not my super power. AND for some reason I couldn’t comment on the video. Never had that happen before.
You are right – good catch! I made a half batch when testing and had that recipe written down from which I copied. However, many have made them and they turned out great so I think 3/4 tsp could be enough to create the needed reaction 🙂 I will make the change now.
Can you use Almond flour instead of coconut?
No you cannot unfortunately.
Is there a reason for using olive oil vs coconut oil? I worried it might taste a little off.. excited to make this today?
Don’t be worried! It doesn’t add any taste to the muffins but it makes them super moist. Coconut oil would work fine too, but we find olive oil makes for the most moist muffins.
I just made these and they tasted like olive oil and were dry and crumbly.
Mine were dry also and did not taste good to me.
I’m so excited about this recipe! My co-worker (non-keto) and I have been talking about lemon poppy seed muffins from bakeries [which on keto, I had resigned to not having, but now I can :D]… I may have to make these and bring her one too!
You guys rock!
Hey guys!
Just a fyi, you left baking powder out of your instructions in step two.
Can’t wait to try these though!
Thank you! Just added it 🙂
I am making these right now. They are in the oven as I type! Sooooo excited to try them. Lemon poppy seed is my favorite muffin and I have been missing it like crazy since starting low carb.
Also, just FYI it looks like you forgot the baking powder step in the instructions area. I assumed it went in with the dry ingredients part. 🙂
Yay!! Hope you enjoyed them 🙂 And, yes thank you – someone else also pointed it out so it is now added! Hope it didnt mess you up.