Both children and adults like muffins. They are excellent as a dessert or as a sweet snack during a party. You can add fruit, chocolate, crème, nuts – everything you have on hand. December is a time for cinnamon, cloves and anise, so I recommend adding a bit of spice to the muffins. You will make a quick dessert that smells of home and is reminiscent of the magic of Christmas and family atmosphere.

I prepared my muffins in silicon pastry cases. I decorated the muffins with lemon crème and pieces of pomegranate. Thanks to this, my dessert was refreshing and light, and the pomegranate balanced the chocolaty sweetness of the muffins.

Ingredients (12 muffins)
muffins
300g of flour
2 tablespoons of cocoa
1 tablespoon of spices
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
150g of butter
170ml of milk
160g of brown sugar
2 eggs
2 flat teaspoons of baking powder
½ teaspoon of baking soda
1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
creme
250g of mascarpone cheese
2 teaspoons of caster sugar
1 teaspoon of lemon essence
1 tablespoon of lemon juice
pomegranate
Heat the oven up to 175C.
Melt the butter in a pan. Leave to cool down.
Mix together the dry ingredients of the muffins: flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, spices and cinnamon. Mix together the milk, vanilla essence and eggs in a separate bowl. Add the egg mixture to the dry ingredients and mix them in. Add the melted butter and mix it in again.
Put the dough into some silicon pastry cases. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
Whisk the mascarpone cheese with the sugar, lemon essence and lemon juice. Take the muffins out of the silicon pastry cases. Decorate with the crème and pomegranate.

Enjoy your meal!

Try also
Courgette muffins with lemon
Pumpkin muffins with chocolate
Mini cupcakes with fruit