Brain and eye muffins

AUTHOR
Kelley Price
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
5 1
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 250 g Flour
  • 2 1/2 TSP. Baking Powder
  • 1/2 TEASPOON House soda
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 125 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 8 TABLESPOONS Oil
  • 1/4 l Buttermilk
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
  • 1 TABLESPOON + 2 tsp lemon juice
  • 1 TABLESPOON red raspberry jelly
  • 120 g Double cream cream cheese
  • 400 g Icing sugar
  • 1 Tube red and brown sugar writing
  • 6 chocolate lentils (e.g. green or blue)
  • 24 Paper baking cups

Directions

  1. 1

    Line the recesses of a muffin tray (12 pieces) with 2 paper baking cups each. Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda. Put the egg into a mixing bowl and whisk. Add sugar, vanillin sugar, oil, buttermilk, lemon peel and 1 tbsp. lemon juice and whisk briefly with the whisk of the hand mixer. Add flour mixture and stir in.

  2. 2

    Spread the dough evenly into the hollows of the muffin tray. Bake in the preheated oven (electric range: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 20-25 minutes. Remove from the oven, place on a cake rack and allow to cool. Lift out of the trays. Dissolve jelly in a small pot. Remove from the heat, allow to cool slightly, but do not allow to set. Mix cream cheese and 2 tsp. lemon juice. Sift icing sugar on top and stir in. Take off 1/3 of the mixture and set aside. Colour the rest of the mixture with the jelly.

  3. 3

    Mix cream cheese and 2 tsp. lemon juice. Sift icing sugar on top and stir in. Take off 1/3 of the mixture and set aside. Colour the rest of the mixture with the jelly. Let the mixture thicken a little. Spread the white mixture on 6 muffins. Decorate with sugar writing and chocolate lentils as eyes. Pour the rest of the mixture into a piping bag with a very small nozzle. Spray as brains on the remaining 6 muffins. Chill for about 1 hour

  4. 4

    Let the mixture thicken a little. Spread the white mixture on 6 muffins. Decorate with sugar writing and chocolate lentils as eyes. Pour the rest of the mixture into a piping bag with a very small nozzle. Spray as brains on the remaining 6 muffins. Chill for about 1 hour

  5. 5

    waiting time approx. 2 1/4 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
350 kcal
CARBS
61 g
FATS
10 g
PROTEINS
4 g