Chocolate muffin with vanilla marshmallow frosting

Now it’s the time of the year in which I start hear strawberries calling to me. I know, I know. They’re by no means seasonal yet. Yet it’s a siren call. Cannot. Resist. Don’t want to either. So, to keep it to a minimum I just used some of them for decoration on top of this minimuffin that has something new for me. The marshmallows in the frosting. Yummy!

Ingredients:

• 190g sugar
• 200g flour
• 2 pinches of salt
• 2 eggs
• 50g butter
• 150ml milk
• 60g cocoa powder
• icing sugar
• butter for the frosting
• marshmallows
• food coloring (gel)
• strawberries

Method:

1. as usual, prepare the batter for the minimuffins (also add a teaspoon of vanilla paste) and bake them for 15-20 minutes at 180 °C, take them out, let them cool completely;
2. take a small bowl worth of marshmallows and microwave them for 30 seconds at 750W (for me it worked like this, you’ll have to check with your own microwave oven though);
3. once they’ve melted mix them with the icing sugar and the butter and add a couple of teaspoons of vanilla extract and a pinch of salt, pipe on top of your minimuffins and decorate with the strawberries.