Gingerbread Muffins with Surprise

As Christmas is here again I decided to experiment a little bit and make a Christmas variation of the basic recipe for muffins. i have to say even I was surprised how yummy these gingerbread muffins are.

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As this is a "cup" recipe, please note that when measuring, you should not press the ingredients into the cup, and the ingredients should be even with the cup.

We will need:

- 2 cups of plain flour

- 1/2 cup of honey

- 1 cup milk

- 1 egg

- 6 tablespoons butter/vegetable oil
- 3 teaspoons of cacao
- 1 teaspoon of gingerbread spice mix

-3 teaspoons baking powder

- 1/8 teaspoon salt

-1 vanilla sugar/1 tablespoon vanilla extract

The amounts above will make 12 muffins.

Recept v slovenčine

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METHOD:

1. We prepare all ingredients ahead in order to have them all at a room temperature (take the eggs from the fridge at least one hour prior baking). Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F. Prepare your muffin pan (if you want to, you can put in the paper muffin cups).

2. Mix together egg, honey, milk, oil/butter, and vanilla. The honey should be warm, and thus runny in order to easily dissolve in the milk.

3. In another bowl, combine flour, salt, , cacao and gingerbread spice mix, and baking powder.

4. Gently combine wet and dry ingredients - no hand mixer. Mix only until the dry ingredients are moistened, the final batter should be a little bit lumpy and not smooth. When you lift your spatula, the batter should fall down in pieces, it should not pour down in one stream.

5. Put the batter into paper cups so that these are twothirds full. Put 1 teaspoon of the filling (jam, peanut spread) into each cup, then cover it with he remaining muffin batter.

6. Bake at 200°C/400°F for 5 minutes, then bring the temperature down to 180°C/350°F for another 12-15 minutes. Take the muffin pan from he oven, and let the muffins cool for 5 minutes in the muffin pan. Then, place the muffins on the wire rack to cool. After the muffins are no longer hot, spread melted chocolate (I recommend adding one teaspoon of the butter into the chocolate when melting it) on each muffin: if you want to you may put other decorations on the muffins as well.