Lemon and Raspberry Muffins

My Scottish Raspberries

Well, this is our first year in our new house and our first year of growing our own produce. Our garden is filled with many different fruits and vegetables which are growing well so far despite the very dry spring.

Today my little girl asked me if we could make cupcakes. I said that would be a great idea as our larder was bare of treats (shopping arrives tomorrow)! While we were out in the garden I spotted that there were quite a lot of raspberries that had ripened over the last couple of days and that would need to be eaten.

I initially thought about making white chocolate and raspberry cupcakes but was out of white chocolate! Then I flicked through a couple of the books that live on my kitchen worktop and found the recipe for Lemon and Raspberry Muffins by Nigella in her book How to be a Domestic Goddess.