Almond muffins with passion fruit

Muffins are prepared with the addition of ground almonds, white chocolate and passion fruit.

Ingredients

• White chocolate (chopped) - 100 g
• Ground almonds - 100 g
• Passion fruit, pulp (fresh or canned) - 90 g
• Butter - 90 g
• Flour - 75 g
• Baking powder - 0.5 tsp
• Salt - 1/8 tsp
• Powdered sugar - 225 g
• Orange peel - 1 tsp
• Egg whites - 6 pcs.
• Butter for greasing molds

Directions

1. Turn on the oven to preheat to 200 degrees. Butter 12 muffin tins.
2. Melt white chocolate and butter in a water bath. Remove from the bath, let cool.
3. In a separate bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt. Add powdered sugar, almonds and zest, mix.
4. Beat egg whites until fluffy foam, gradually add dry ingredients, melted chocolate and half the passion fruit pulp into the whites, mix gently. Pour batter into prepared molds, filling halfway.
5. Put the remaining passion fruit pulp in the center of the muffins and place in a preheated oven, bake the almond muffins for 15-18 minutes, until golden brown. Then remove the almond muffins from the oven, let cool for 5 minutes and you can remove the muffins from the molds.