Chocolate muffins with faces

AUTHOR
Janie Gentry
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 75 g Dark chocolate
  • 100 g Marzipan raw mass
  • 125 g Butter or margarine
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 2 Eggs (size M)
  • 200 g Flour
  • 50 g Cornstarch
  • 2 TEASPOONS Baking Powder
  • 3-4 Tbsp Whipped cream
  • 200 g Icing sugar
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
  • 24 colourful chocolate lentils
  • 7-10 Tbsp colourful sugar beads and red sugar writing
  • 24 Paper baking cups

Directions

  1. 1

    Chopping chocolate. Coarsely grate the raw marzipan paste and place in a bowl with soft fat. Stir with the whisk of the hand mixer until smooth. Add sugar, vanillin sugar and salt and stir until frothy. Add the eggs one after the other and stir in.

  2. 2

    Mix flour, cornstarch and baking powder and stir into the dough together with the cream. Finally fold in chocolate. Place 2 paper baking cups in each and distribute the dough into the cups. (Or bake in a muffin tray for 12 muffins). Bake in the preheated oven (electric: 175 °C/ gas: level 2) for 20-25 minutes. Let the muffins cool down on a cake rack. For the icing, mix icing sugar, lemon juice and 1/2 - 1 tablespoon water to a thick icing. Spread some of the icing on each of the muffins. Use chocolate lentils, red sugar writing, large and small sugar pearls to give the muffins colourful faces. Leave to dry.

  3. 3

    Let the muffins cool down on a cake rack. For the icing, mix icing sugar, lemon juice and 1/2 - 1 tablespoon water to a thick icing. Spread some of the icing on each of the muffins. Use chocolate lentils, red sugar writing, large and small sugar pearls to give the muffins colourful faces. Leave to dry. Results in 12 muffins

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
370 kcal
CARBS
51 g
FATS
16 g
PROTEINS
5 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & Pastriessweet