Happy St. Patrick's Day to all my Irish heritage friends especially Barb and Kathleen! Today, I am joining Kathleen on her 2nd annual St. Patty's blog crawl - head on over to her blog HERE to see all the other amazing participants.
I didn't have a lot of time to prepare a party worthy dish and I don't own any shamrock themed dishes but I did manage to find some paper shamrock doilies as well as some shamrock cupcake liners. That's about as Irish as I get these days :)
Last week the bag of powdered sugar got damaged in the cupboard (what a mess) so while I was cleaning out the cupboard I found a lemon poppyseed muffin mix that I purchased a while ago for overnight guests and it didn't get used. That is a flavor that isn't as popular with J or I so since I was cleaning up powdered sugar I used what remained in the bag as my inspiration to sweeten them up a little. I prepared the muffins according to the mix directions and then made a thin mixture of fresh lemon juice and powdered sugar. As soon as the muffins came out of the oven - I poked them all over with a fork and poured the lemon sugar mixture over them so that it soaked into the muffins. 
After soaking all the muffins I used more powdered sugar to thicken the lemon mixture into icing and used some zest as a flavorful topping.
What we ended up with was more of a rich pound cake flavor and very delicious.
