Sweet Morning Delight: Irresistible Homemade Cupcakes

Ingredients

Yield: 6

White Muffins:

• 2 eggs
• 25 g sugar
• 50 g soft butter
• 37 g powdered sugar
• 37 g flour
• 12 g ground almonds

Creams:

• 250 g mascarpone cheese
• 1 L Meggle whipping cream
• Kremfix (cream stabilizer)
• Blueberry jam / frozen forest fruits
• Strawberry flavoring
• Strawberry jam
• Topfen strawberry yogurt
• Desert vanilla yogurt
• Vanilla extract
• Bourbon vanilla sugar (Oetker)
• 1 lemon
• Lemon extract
• Yellow powdered coloring
• Coconut liqueur
• Shredded coconut
• Coconut cream (Coco Real / E.Leclerc)
• ~100 g dark chocolate (Manner)
• Whiskey
• 6 muffin molds
• Sprinkles, pearls, etc., for decoration
• Portable box (if needed)
• Cupcake wraps: scrapbook paper/cardstock or thick white paper
• Kaiser piping nozzles: 13 mm 39-8, 15 mm 51-0, 16 mm 45-9 TIP
• Thermo piping bag (smaller tips not recommended)

Recipe

White muffins are made using a Sacher sponge recipe without added chocolate; the dark muffins are made from a chocolate madeleine recipe I have already posted.

White Muffins:

Place muffin liners in the baking tray or grease and sprinkle with ground almonds. If you do the latter, place the tray in the fridge. Separate egg yolks and whites.

Whip the egg whites into stiff peaks, gradually adding sugar. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

In a bowl, cream butter and powdered sugar until fluffy. Add yolks and mix for 5 minutes. Gently fold in the egg white mixture using a whisk in circular motions to incorporate air. Add sifted flour and almonds, mixing carefully.

Fill the molds about 1 cm below the rim and bake on the middle rack for about 1 hour. If the tops brown too much, cover with foil (it won’t be visible under the cream). Let them cool completely. The muffins will be very fluffy.

Creams:

• Lemon: Mascarpone, lemon extract, lemon juice, powdered sugar, lemon zest for garnish.
• Vanilla: Mascarpone, whipped cream, a little yellow coloring, powdered sugar, Kremfix, vanilla extract, Desert vanilla yogurt, silver pearls for decoration.
• Strawberry: Mascarpone, whipped cream, powdered sugar, Kremfix, Topfen strawberry yogurt, strawberry flavoring, pink sprinkles for garnish.
• Blueberry: Mascarpone, blueberry jam, powdered sugar, colorful sprinkles for decoration.
• Coconut: Mascarpone, whipped cream, powdered sugar, Kremfix, shredded coconut, coconut cream, coconut liqueur, coconut flakes for garnish.
• Chocolate: Mascarpone, whipped cream, Kremfix, melted chocolate, cocoa powder, Whiskey, chocolate sprinkles for garnish.

When mixing creams, make sure they are compact, not runny. Refrigerate for 20 minutes after mixing, then pipe onto muffins. The cream holds well at room temperature without losing shape, which is ideal for gifting.