Are you ready for a delicious breakfast recipe that’s perfect for hot summer mornings? I made these honey & thyme muffins a couple of weeks ago for the guys aboard the Rascal for the
Bohicket Tournament, and they were a hit! In fact, they’re currently out in the open ocean fishing in the
Carolina Billfish Classic. These grab and go muffins are light and fluffy, with a touch of tang and just enough sweetness – a perfect way to start your early morning trek off-shore. Grab one and get fishing!
Muffins
2 cups flour
1/2 cup brown sugar + 2 tbsp
3 tsp baking powder
14 tsp salt
1 tsp lemon zest
1 egg, room temperature
1 cup milk, room temperature
1/4 cup softened butter
1/4 cup honey
1.5-2 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
Lemon Honey Glaze
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup lemon juice
1. Preheat oven to 400*
Remove the thyme leaves from their stems and finely chop. In a small bowl or measuring up, add thyme to milk and set aside to blend.
2. Sift flour, baking powder, salt into a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk butter, sugar (except the 2 extra tablespoons), egg. This is where the room temperature ingredients helps – everything whisks together by hand super easily. Next, add milk/thyme & zest to the butter/sugar mixture. Finally, get everything into one big bowl, and whisk it all together until just combined. I really like the word “whisk,” by the way. Hmm.
3. Spray a muffin tin with nonstick spray, the add muffin liners, and spray one more time. You can’t be too careful, and no one wants half of a muffin stuck to the paper. Don’t you hate it when that happens? Fill each one to just under the top of muffin tin – maybe a little more than 3/4 of the way up. They don’t rise too much. Sprinkle the remaining brown sugar on top to finish them off before baking.
4. Bake 400* 12-15 minutes until tops are springy and toothpick comes out clean. Let them cool a tad, remove from muffin tin and finish cooling on baking rack. Don’t try to taste one yet. :/
Aren’t they delicious-looking? Just you wait.
While these puppies are baking (or cooling), you can whip whisk up the glaze for them in a jiffy.
1. You can do this in a saucepan with simmering water, but it’s just as easy to heat honey in microwave for 5-10 seconds to thin out, then add lemon juice and whisk to combine…
….That’s it. Really. Takes less than 1 minute.
Use a pastry or basting brush and brush the tops of the muffins with the glaze. Don’t be stingy… It’s worth it.
Looks good enough to eat, huh? I kept two for myself and took the rest to the Rascal guys. I couldn’t give them allllll of these golden beauties. Come on… Even though they are the reason I caught my first (and only, to date) blue marlin. Maybe I should make more next time.
My bowl of cereal from this morning is looking much less appetizing than it seemed 5 hours ago. And fishing sounds much more fun than not… Ahh. Such is life.
Good luck, Rascal!
