Christmas Cupcake
Christmas Cupcake is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the Muffins category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 150 g flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 100 g softened butter
- 70 g sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 75 ml milk
- 20 g poppy seeds
- 1 tsp grated lemon zest (unprocessed)
- 250 g powdered sugar
- 4 tbsp Lemon juice
- 200 g marzipan dough
- dark red food coloring
- green food coloring
- 45 paper cupcake liners (Goldman sleeves) for mini muffins
- 1 mini muffin tin
Instructions
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1.
Line the muffin tin with paper liners.
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2.
Beat butter until fluffy, gradually add sugar and eggs, then fold in vanilla. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt; alternately stir this into the milk and then into the egg mixture, adding poppy seeds and lemon zest at the end.
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Spoon batter into liners and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C (middle rack) for about 20 minutes until pale. Remove and cool on a wire rack.
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4.
For the glaze, whisk powdered sugar with lemon juice to a thick consistency; brush onto mini muffins and let dry.
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5.
To decorate, take 1/3 of the marzipan dough and knead with dark red food coloring. Knead the remaining 2/3 with green food coloring. Optionally shape 90 small berry-like shapes from the red mixture. Roll out the green mixture on a little powdered sugar, cut out 45 palm leaf shapes, and score leaf tips. Arrange leaves and berries on the muffins.
