Strawberry Muffins

With just a twist or two, sweet and savoury muffins are as fitting for an evening tea party as they are with morning coffee. Making the most of the season's favourite- strawberries! The lovely lemon flavoured butter icing just made them more perfect.
The muffins are super easy to make, don't even require a beater. The batter is a great basic muffin batter, can be tweaked with different ingredients such as berries, chocolate chips etc..

Ingredients (makes about 10 medium sized muffins)

For the muffins
1  and 3/4 cup flour (maida)
1/2 cup powdered sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 beaten egg (beaten with a whisk)
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup cooking oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 cup chopped strawberries (use firm strawberries)

For the frosting
50 gms butter, at room temperature
1 cup icing sugar
3/4 teaspoon grated lemon zest

1. Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees Celcius.
2. Mix the oil,egg,milk and vanilla essence in a bowl.
3. Sieve together the flour, baking powder and salt in another bowl. Mix in the sugar. Toss in the strawberries.
4. Pour in the liquid mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Mix gently just till all the ingredients come together. Do not overmix.
5. Line muffin cases with muffin paper cups. Divide the batter evenly amongst the muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes or till a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
6. For the frosting, beat the butter ,lemon zest and sugar till creamy.
7. When the muffins are cooled, top with frosting and strawberry halves.