576 March 21, 2017 Keto Recipes

Keto Lemon Sour Cream Muffins – Low Carb

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Spring has sprung and these scrummy keto lemon sour cream muffins (cake tho, right?) are the perfect way to celebrate! Tender lemon muffin base (seriously, it’s tiny cake people – just keeping it real) with a crunchy streusel topping and a sweet and tart lemon glaze – it’s everything you’ve ever wanted a in a low carb muffin! #butreally #itscake

As most of you know by now, I live on an island in Belize where the weather is perpetually summer-like. The temperatures here range from HOT most of the year, to spontaneous combustion is imminent if you’re outside more than 5 minutes in August. ☀️ 🔥 💥

So it’s not easy for me to get in the mindset of “yay, Spring!” like it used to be when I lived in New York and froze half the year.

Still, I got very excited when out of the blue, lemons showed up on the island about a month ago. 🍋🍋 🍋 👈 😍 🎉

They don’t have yellow lemons here usually – it’s all limes all the time in Belize. Which I’m OK with for the most part. But this time of year still means lemon and strawberry (I scored some of those too, new recipe later this week, Woot!) flavored everything to me – so I bought a huge bag of them.

I was amused by the cashier’s obvious confusion – first at the weird yellow limes, and second that I was buying at least 20 of them! 😂 I couldn’t wait to get started cooking lemon flavored everything – the only problem was that I was leaving for the states for 3 weeks and had no time to use them before they went bad…

So I froze them out of desperation, which I’d never done before. ❄️ 🍋 😱

I was terrified that they’d be ruined when I got home from our trip – but it worked great! As an added bonus, when I thawed and cut them in half to juice them with my hand-held citrus crusher thingy, it was easy to get every last drop out of them – much more so then when they were fresh.

The moral of this story is that if you have more lemons then you can use – you can totally freeze them whole and thaw them as needed! I even zested them with no problems! 🙌

So, long story long – against all odds I was able to get lemons in Belize and I made you these keto lemon sour cream muffins with them. And THEY ARE GOOD. SO. GOOD.

Don’t be intimidated by the multiple steps in these keto lemon sour cream muffins either – the muffin portion is made in the blender so it’s super easy, and the streusel topping is mixed with a fork in a bowl, as is the easy lemon glaze. There is lemon juice and/or zest added to every component, so it’s sooooooper lemony people – in the best possible way.

Lemon lovers rejoice! 💞🍋 🙌 You are going to LURV this one!

You might be wondering why the sour cream. It’s an honest question. I wasn’t sure about it myself, but I used to order an amazing lemon sour cream pound cake years ago, and it was so very tasty that I thought I’d try it in these keto lemon sour cream muffins.

The sour cream made the muffins very tender, super rich, and the tart cream flavor really complemented the lemon. I’m hooked, and you will be too!

I made these both as muffins and as mini loaves, to see if it would bake up ok both ways. It totally did, and I’m on the fence about which way I liked it more. Both tasted the same, but I liked being able to just slice off a small piece of the loaf without committing to an entire muffin.

That being said, my muffins were pretty large – so if you make them average sized then you’ll probably be getting about the same amount either way.

The point is – you can make these keto lemon sour cream muffins in almost any format and they will be great. I’m including baking times for multiple sizes in the instructions, but please be aware that ovens and cooking times may vary. Bake it until a toothpick inserted comes out clean and you’ll be in business.