Chocolate muffins with cream cheese topping

AUTHOR
Bo Carpenter
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3.5 15
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 50 g Marzipan raw mass
  • 1 TABLESPOON + 50 g icing sugar
  • 150 g Dark chocolate
  • 125 g soft butter or margarine
  • 250 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 4 Eggs (size M)
  • 160 g Flour
  • 1 TEASPOON Baking Powder
  • 1 Lemon
  • 200 g Double cream cream cheese
  • 7-10 Tbsp pink sugar beads and red sugar hearts
  • 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
  • 12 Paper baking cups

Directions

  1. 1

    Knead the marzipan and 1 tablespoon icing sugar. Cut the marzipan in half and colour it pink to different degrees. Roll out the marzipan separately on a work surface sprinkled with icing sugar and cut out small hearts (approx. 1 cm Ø)

  2. 2

    Coarsely chop the dark chocolate. Melt the fat and chocolate in a saucepan over low heat while stirring, remove from the heat and pour into a mixing bowl. Add sugar, vanillin sugar, salt, eggs, flour and baking powder. Mix to a smooth dough with the whisks of the hand mixer. Place paper baking cups in the hollows of a muffin tray (12 hollows). Pour in the dough and bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 20 minutes. Take the muffins out of the oven and let them cool down on a cake rack

  3. 3

    Halve the lemon and squeeze 1/2 lemon. Cream cream cheese, 50 g icing sugar and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. Remove approx. 1/3 of the cream and colour pink with food colouring. Fill pink cream into a piping bag with a small star nozzle, fill light cream into a piping bag with a large star nozzle

  4. 4

    Spray cream onto the muffins and decorate with marzipan hearts and sugar pelts

  5. 5

    Waiting time approx. 1 hour

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
390 kcal
CARBS
44 g
FATS
20 g
PROTEINS
6 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & Pastriessweetvery easy