For halloween, I was hoping to have lots of time and lots of ideas to bake something every day. Then I realised that my boyfriend and I couldn't afford to eat so much goodies in a week. Afterward, I also realised that while my coworkers have a sweet tooth from time to time, they prefer not to stuff themselves every day of the week. With a heavy heart, I decided to do two things for this year.
First one was inspired by the blog Do it myself! which is in the link to the right (amazing cakes!). The author has made spider cupcakes which I found to be very beautiful. However, she uses a lot of royal icing and sugar paste, which I tend to avoid (mostly because I don't like the taste and... I'm not very good at it). I decided against my traditional chocolate to try a new recipe : apple spice muffin, which turned out to be delicious. For the web, I went with meringue since I find it tastes better. I was hoping to have chocolate balls for the spiders but it's darn impossible to stick legs into those things (mostly if you were hoping to use marsipan to do that), so I had to resort as a last minute plan to plastic spiders for pure decoration purpose. The icing puzzled me for a while and in the end, I found a recipe for vanilla icing. The muffin being quite neutral, it was perfect with a more sugary icing.
Beware the spider invasion!
Apple Spice Muffins (gave me 12 biggish medium-sized muffins)
Preheat the overn to 200 C.
Mix together:
500 ml of flour
67,5 ml of sugar
3,5 teaspoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Then add and stir in:
192,5 ml of chopped apple (peeled!)
Make a small hole in the middle, add and combine:
1 beaten egg
250 ml milk
62,5 ml vegetable oil.
Bake for 20-25 minutes and enjoy!
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