Rhubarb muffins with two toppings

AUTHOR
Rachel Vazquez
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 3
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 300 g Rhubarb (net 200-225 g)
  • 120 g Sugar
  • 450 g soft butter
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1/2 organic lemon
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 2 Eggs (size M)
  • 200 g Flour
  • 2 teaspoons (8 g) Baking Powder
  • 25 g ground almonds without skin
  • 150 ml Milk
  • 50 g pink fondant
  • 50 g yellow fondant
  • 50 g Raspberry Jelly
  • 150 g Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp red and yellow food colouring
  • 50 g Fruit spread apricot, finely strained
  • 1 TEASPOON small pink/white sugar beads
  • 12 white paper baking cups
  • 12 paper baking cups
  • 1 D
  • 7-10 Tbsp Disposable piping bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean, wash and cut the rhubarb into small pieces. Add 20 g sugar. Cream 100 g butter, 100 g sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon zest and salt with the whisk of the hand mixer. Mix eggs in alternation with 30 g flour. Mix 170 g flour, baking powder and almonds and add to the milk. Stir briefly, finally fold in rhubarb

  2. 2

    Line recesses of a muffin tray (12 recesses) with white paper baking cups. Spread the dough into the baking cups. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 25 minutes. Let the muffins cool down on a cake rack

  3. 3

    Fold solid paper accordion-shaped. Roll out pink and yellow fondant separately 2-3 mm thin. Cut out 6 yellow and 6 pink butterflies with butterfly cutters ( x cm). Place butterflies in the folds of the paper so that the wings bend upwards. Leave to dry for about 2 hours

  4. 4

    Pass the jelly through a fine sieve. Whip 350 g butter and icing sugar until thick and creamy white. Halve the cream. Mix one portion of cream with jelly. (Important: Cream and jelly must have the same temperature.) Stir in a few drops of red food colouring. Under the other half

  5. 5

    Place cooled muffins in colored paper cuffs. Put the creams in a piping bag with a perforated nozzle (13-14 mm Ø) and spray a small pyramid of dots onto the muffins. Put the muffins in a cool place for about 1 hour. Sprinkle them with sugar pearls and decorate with butterflies

  6. 6

    waiting time approx. 2 1/2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
490 kcal
CARBS
43 g
FATS
34 g
PROTEINS
4 g