Muffins with buttercream and chocolate spiders 13. October 2022

In a bowl, start making the muffin batter by whisking together the egg, cane sugar, rapeseed oil, cream, salt, and sour cream.

In another bowl, mix vanilla sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, and flour, and sieve and fold it into the egg mixture.

Stir in the chopped chocolate and pour the finished batter into muffin liners so that each liner is two-thirds filled.

Bake your muffins at 170 degrees for 15-17 minutes. The muffins should be moist when you test them with a toothpick. Remember to let the muffins cool completely.

While your muffins are baking, you can prepare the decorations by melting the dark and the white chocolate over a water bath, after which you can transfer the two kinds of melted chocolate to two separate piping bags with a small hole at the tip.

Pipe spiders on aluminium foil with the dark chocolate and use the white chocolate to pipe cobwebs on the aluminium foil. Let the decorations harden completely. "You can draw spiders and cobwebs on the aluminium foil before you begin your piping," Clara suggests with a smile.

To make the buttercream, whip cream cheese with butter, icing sugar, and black food colouring until the mixture is airy and put it in a piping bag with a star piping tip.

You can now decorate your muffins by piping the buttercream onto the tops of the muffins in small tops, and put a chocolate spider or a cobweb into the buttercream.