Iced Raspberry Grapefruit Muffins

These muffins are so moist and delicious -  they almost taste like a doughnut!

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder (aluminum free)
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 pint raspberries (seedless if you can find them)
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup melted butter
• 3/4 fresh squeezed grapefruit juice
• 1 tbsp grated grapefruit peel

Grapefruit Icing Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/4 cup grapefruit juice
• 1/2 tsp raspberry juice
• 1 tbsp salted butter
• 2 tbsp grapefruit zest

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees
• Combine dry ingredients in a large bowl (flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt)
• Stir in raspberries (if they are ripe they will mush in nicely)
• When you wash your raspberries, there will be some raspberry water (set it aside)
• In another large bowl beat eggs, sugar, butter, grapefruit juice, and grated peel for about 2 minutes
• Combine both bowls and stir softly together (you mixture will be a bit runny like this)

• Spoon batter into greased muffin tin
• Bake at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes

Icing Directions:

• Zest 2 tablespoons of grapefruit peel and combine it with raspberry water

• Melt butter in microwave
• Mix together butter, grapefruit juice, zest, and powdered sugar to make your icing
• Drizzle over muffins while they are still warm

This recipe is fantastic because it is a blueprint for any citrus berry muffin recipe. Here are a few scrumptious alternate recipe ideas:

• Lemon Blueberry
• Orange Cranberry
• Lime Strawberry

Enjoy!