Turtle Shaped Birthday Party Muffins
Ingredients
- 170 g soft butter
- 150 g sugar
- a pinch of salt
- 1 lemon
- 3 large eggs
- 200 g all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
Glaze
- 100 g powdered sugar
- 1 drop blue food coloring
Decoration
- 12 colorful Brause-Ufo candies
- 100 g colorful chocolate lentils
- 24 sugar eyes (or 1 dark food coloring pen)
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 180°C top and bottom heat (160°C convection) and line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners
Beat soft butter, sugar, and salt with an electric mixer on high speed until fluffy
Wash the lemon with hot water, dry it, and finely grate the zest
Halve the lemon and squeeze one half
Add lemon zest, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and one egg to the butter mixture and mix
Add the remaining eggs one at a time, mixing for 1 minute on high speed after each addition
Mix flour and baking powder and fold into the batter
Divide the batter evenly among the 12 muffin cups
Bake the muffins in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes until done
Let the muffins cool completely on a wire rack
Squeeze the other lemon half to get juice
Mix powdered sugar with 1.5 tablespoons lemon juice to form a thick glaze
Add one drop of blue food coloring to the glaze and mix until light blue or turquoise
Decoration
Spread the blue glaze over the top of each cooled muffin
Place one Brause-Ufo candy in the center of each muffin for the turtle shell
Arrange chocolate lentils around the edge of the muffin to form the turtle's legs and tail
Add two sugar eyes on the Brause-Ufo candy
