Turtle Muffins

Ingredients

• 150 g milk chocolate (or kids chocolate)
• 75 ml whipping cream
• 125 g flour
• 1 packet chocolate pudding powder (for 500 ml milk)
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 0.5 tsp Baking soda
• 1 egg
• 50 g sugar
• 40 ml vegetable oil
• 100 g buttermilk
• 150 g milk chocolate (or kids chocolate)
• 24 chocolate bonbons
• 1 tube sugar lettering (yellow or green)
• 96 licorice pieces
• 6 chocolate sticks

Instructions

1. 1.

   Preheat the oven to 160°C fan. Place paper liners in a muffin tin.

2. 2.

   Break the kids chocolate into pieces, melt it in the cream and let cool. Mix the flour with the pudding powder, baking powder, and baking soda carefully. In a bowl lightly whisk the egg. Combine the sugar, oil, buttermilk, and chocolate‑cream mixture. Stir in the dry mix just until the wet ingredients are incorporated.

3. 3.

   Fill the paper liners with batter. Bake in the middle of the oven for 15–20 minutes. Let the muffins rest about 5 minutes, then remove and cool on a rack.

4. 4.

   For decoration melt milk chocolate over a hot water bath. Dip the top half of each muffin into the chocolate and let it set slightly. Insert one chocolate bonbon onto a toothpick as a head, place sugar lettering for eyes, mouth, and pattern on the shell. Use a knife to make four cuts in each muffin and insert licorice pieces as feet. Attach a small piece of chocolate stick as a tail on the back half of each muffin.