Súkkulaðibollakökur með bismark-kremi

Chocolate muffins with peppermint cream

Bismarck has also left its mark on Icelandic cuisine, although not in the form of marinated herring (Bismarck herring), but in the form of white-red peppermint candies (Bismark).

These peppermint candies are often used in Icelandic cuisine, whether as a crunch on a milkshake or on a cake.

Here I used cream chocolate with a piece of Bismark peppermint candies as a special touch in the buttercream for these chocolate muffins. However, we also snacked on a few pieces of chocolate, it was just too delicious and tasted really interesting in the best sense of the word!

Ingredients

150 g peppermint chocolate

100 ml cream

100 ml rapeseed oil

2 eggs

150 ml concentrated milk

200 g brown sugar

170 g flour

50 g baking cocoa

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

250 g butter

400 g powdered sugar

Preparation

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

Melt the chocolate with the cream in a small saucepan and then let it cool again.

While the mixture cools, prepare the muffins:

In a large bowl, stir the oil, eggs and curdled milk until frothy.

Add the brown sugar, flour, baking cocoa and baking powder, baking soda and salt and mix into a smooth dough.

Pour the dough into muffin tins...

...and bake in the preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for approx. 15 - 20 minutes until the muffins are baked through (test with a stick!).

Then let the muffins cool, then prepare the buttercream:

Place the butter and powdered sugar in a tall container and stir until fluffy.

Add the chocolate-cream mixture to the butter-icing sugar mixture and beat everything well.

Then use a piping tip to pour the mixture onto the cooled muffins.

Then chill the muffins with the butter cream in the refrigerator for at least an hour so that the cream sets.

Just for fun, I only prepared half of the cream with the Bismark chocolate mixture and used cream with white chocolate with mango pieces for the other half of the cream, just for looks - and in case not all children were enthusiastic about peppermint.

But the Bismark cream was actually really well received!

The muffins with the buttercream are quite filling - but very tasty!

[Translated from here.]