Baking 13. March 2025

Colorful clown muffins

Carnival, Mardi Gras or Shrovetide, no matter what you call it, they all have one thing in common: partying. In addition to the right costume, food also plays an important role at the party. But we've already taken care of that, because our sweet clown muffins are sure to please everyone and are also a real eye-catcher.

Preparation 15 minutes Preparation 30 minutes

Muffins

200 g sugar
1 packet of vanilla
190 g soft butter
1 egg
150 g low-fat quark
220 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 pinch of salt
Red, yellow, blue food coloring
150 g heavy cream cheese
80 g powdered sugar

Decoration

Chocolate lentils
Jelly babies
Sugar sprinkles
Red and black sugar writing

Preparation

First, preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan oven) and line a muffin tray with paper cases.
Then place the sugar, vanilla sugar, egg, low-fat quark and 150g butter in a bowl and mix for about 40 seconds until creamy.
Add the flour, baking powder and salt and stir for a further 15 seconds.
Divide the batter evenly between three bowls and color as desired with the food coloring.
The finished batter is then poured into the tins by placing a teaspoon of each color in each well of the muffin tin. If there is any batter left over, you can divide it evenly between the cases.
Now bake the muffins for about 25 minutes and then leave to cool completely.
For the cream, place 40g butter, heavy cream cheese and powdered sugar in a bowl and stir until smooth. Then chill until ready to use.
To decorate, add 1 tbsp of the cream cheese to each muffin and decorate as desired with chocolate lentils, gummy bears, sugar sprinkles and sugar writing to create beautiful clown faces.