MUFFINS (with a hint of chocolate)

As my daughter is growing, i have this feeling of treating her with something new everyday. So although i have always refrained from baking.... this is the first time i have tried my hands on muffins. I tried this simple recipe and just decorated a bit to make it more kid-friendly.

Ingrediants:

All purpose flour : 2 cups (sifted)

Sugar : 1cup

baking powder : 1 tbsp

salt: 1/4th tsp

whole milk : 1 cup

vanilla essence : 1tsp

eggs : 2 small

butter : 4 oz - at room temperature

For Frosting:

 Milk chocolate : 1 cup 

cream : 1/4th cup

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree celcius

2. Mix together - flour, baking powder and salt.

3. you can also add crushed roasted nuts (cashew or walnut)

4. In a seperate bowl, beat eggs and then add sugar, milk and vanilla essence to it. Stir well.

5. Very slowly add butter in the egg mix and keep stirring till all the butter is added.

6. Finally mix all the dry ingrediants (flour mix) to the liquid ingrediants (egg mix), for not more than 15 sec. DONT Overmix, else your muffins will turn out hard.

7. grease the miffin pan with butter or vegetable oil.

8. pour the batter in muffin tray and bake for 30 mins.

For Icing:

1. Bring the cream to one boil and mix it with the milk chocolate. (the hot cream will melt the chocolate)

2. stir well and let it cool for an hour.

3. after one hour, beat it thoroughly for one last time and generously coat each muffin.

4. you can top it with gems.