One-Eyed Alien Muffins

AUTHOR
Cassandra Brock
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 2
COOK TIME
120 mins
TOTAL TIME
120 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 500 g Marzipan paste
  • 150 g + 200 g + 25 g icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp yellow food colouring paste
  • 12 small ammonia pellets
  • 350 g Double cream cheese
  • 7-10 Tbsp green feed color paste
  • 1 Lemon
  • 250 g Flour
  • 3 deleted Tsp Baking Powder
  • 125 g Sugar
  • 1 Egg (Gr. M)
  • 1/4 l Milk
  • 80 ml neutral oil (e.g. rape seed oil)
  • baking paper
  • 24 (approx. 5 cm Ø) Paper baking cups
  • 7-10 Tbsp wooden skewers

Directions

  1. 1

    The day before, knead the marzipan with 150 g icing sugar. Remove approx. 60 g of marzipan and colour with yellow food colouring (Attention - colouring very intensively!). Roll out yellow marzipan on baking paper and cut out 12 circles (approx. 3 cm Ø) as eyes.

  2. 2

    Moisten circles in the middle with water and press a salmiak pastille as a pupil on each.

  3. 3

    Colour the rest of the marzipan with green food colouring. Form tentacles about 7 cm long from it. So that some are bent, place them e.g. over the edge of a flat casserole dish. Leave eyes and tentacles to dry overnight.

  4. 4

    The next day for the Frosting cream cheese and 200 g icing sugar with the whisk of the mixer for about 5 minutes until thick and creamy. Colour green with green food colouring and chill for at least 2 hours.

  5. 5

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 175°C/circulating air: 150°C/gas: see manufacturer). Place 2 paper cups inside each other in the recesses of a muffin tray (12 recesses). Squeeze lemon. Mix flour and baking powder.

  6. 6

    Whisk sugar, egg, milk, oil and 1 tbsp. lemon juice. Add flour and stir in only briefly with the whisks of the mixer. Spread the dough into the moulds. Bake in a hot oven for 20-25 minutes.

  7. 7

    Remove the muffins and prick them several times with a skewer. Stir 3 tablespoons lemon juice and 25 g icing sugar until smooth. Spread on the hot muffins. Lift the muffins out of the cups and let them cool down.

  8. 8

    Shortly before serving, spread Frosting with a spoon on the muffins. Stick eyes and tentacles into the Frosting.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
620 kcal
CARBS
74 g
FATS
29 g
PROTEINS
11 g