Vanillumúffur fyrir Evrópumót 2016

Vanilla muffins for the 2016 European Football Championship

For my football muffins, I simply took the basic Vanillukaka dough, albeit a smaller amount, and baked muffins out of it.

Ingredients

180 g butter
3 eggs
140 g powdered sugar
1 tsp ground vanilla
1 tsp grated lemon peel
180 g flour
1 tsp lemon juice
1 pinch of salt

For the glaze

150 g mascarpone

150 g cream cheese

150 g whipping cream

100 powdered sugar

1 Tbsp lemon juice

to taste: green food coloring and decoration for the glaze

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Melt the butter and cool slightly again.

Separate the eggs.

Mix the egg yolks with the powdered sugar, vanilla and grated lemon peel until foamy. Fold in the flour and mix. The melted butter...

and add the lemon juice and stir everything together.

Carefully beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff and fold them into the remaining dough in portions.

Pour the batter into the muffin cups...

...and let it bake in the lower third of the preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) for about 20 minutes.

Let the muffins cool.

For the glaze, mix together the mascarpone, cream cheese, powdered sugar and lemon juice. Whip the cream until stiff and fold in. If you like, color part of the coating with green food coloring for the “football look” and decorate with colorful chocolate sprinkles or similar.

My personal highlight were the “edible stand-up cup cake toppers”, basically edible paper printed with food coloring with the Icelandic jerseys for the 2016 European Championships.

We keep our fingers crossed for the Icelandic national team with their coaches, the Swede Lars "Lalli" Lagerbäck and the Icelander Heimir Hallgrímsson (who is a full-time dentist in the Westman Islands) as well as their captain Eiður Smári Guðjohnsen, for their first appearance at a European Championship!!!

[Translated from here.]