Striped Muffins

…because calling them “Zebra Muffins” would be too much. What my brother wanted, was a simple white and chocolate cake muffin. What I wanted was something with a little twist in outer appearence, yet delicious.

Striped Muffins

This uffin recipe is probably the most European I have ever tried. It is light, fluffy, not too sweet. This is the thing about European cakes. They make you want more. These muffins make a perfect sweet sunday breakfast with a tall glass of milk an a spoon of nutella.

Striped Muffins
Striped Muffins
Striped Muffins

Our winter holiday here is almost over and afterspending the first 5 days of it in bed with a fever I guess… it is time to relax :D. Therefore the muffins. They possess stimulating force.

Striped Muffins

Check this one out, chillers

Striped Muffins

(makes 12 muffins)

150 g (1 1/4 cup) flour
3 tsp baking powder
1 pckt. vanilla pudding powder
125 g (1/2 cup + 1 tbsp) sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 eggs
150 g (1 stick + 1 tbsp) butter, softened

1 tbsp cocoa powder
1 tbsp milk

Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F). Line a muffin pan with paper molds.
Mix flour, baking powder and vanilla pudding powder in a bowl. Set aside.

Put butter, sugar, eggs and dry ingredients into a mixing bowl and beat with mixer until the dough becomes even.

Pour half of the dough into a bowl and set aside. Add cocoa powder and milk to the leftover dough and incorporate these ingredients.

To make striped muffins, place 1 tsp white dough, then dark dough on top in the middle of the muffin molds. Continue like this until the molds are about 2/3 full.

Bake for 25 minutes and then, have a bite :)

Pralinés For My Valentine

Make something sweet for your Valentine. Anything he/she likes. Here is a very simple way to do so. What you need for this is a silicon form for ice cubes (or special ones for pralinés, but in the end it makes no difference).

Pralines For My Valentine

I will not give you any details here, just the ingredients which my chocolates contained. You can make countless kinds of chocolate pralinés, and these are so simple.
Get creative, out there. Make personalized chocolates.

Pralines For My Valentine
Pralines For My Valentine

For example, white chocolate and crushed oreo cookies. They were layered in the mold.

Pralines For My Valentine
Pralines For My Valentine

Or layered choc and cornflakes? (My BF’s favourite…)

Pralines For My ValentinePralines For My Valentine

These babies are filled with Viba nougat. Nutella and similar cremes work as well. But… that stuff is dangerous… If you know what I mean…

Pralines For My Valentine

Pralines For My Valentine

And these up there are my favourites. S’mores *_*
I put a mini marshmallow inthe liquid chocolate and topped with a piece of graham cracker, which I cut out with a cupcake cutter.

Pralines For My Valentine
Pralines For My Valentine

Whatever you put inside chocolate – you cannot mess it up completely.
There is a bake sale at my school this Thursday which will be quite a stressy time for me. So please forgive me if I do not write more this week. But you can look forward to the treats I will make for my brother’s birthday, my boyfriend, the bake sale and a golden wedding anniversary. There will be a lot to tell about.

Have a good time, guys!