Chocolate muffins with cherries and cream

Chocolate muffins with cherries and cream

Ingredients

• For test:
• Butter - 100 g
• Sour cream - 70 ml
• Cherry syrup - 100 ml
• Sugar - 100 g
• Cocoa - 3 tbsp. spoons
• Flour - 300 g
• Starch - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• Baking powder - 1 teaspoon
• For cherry syrup:
• Cherry - 300 g
• Sugar - 100 g
• Water - 100 ml
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp. the spoon
• For cream:
• Cream cheese ("Philadelphia") - 100 g
• Butter, softened - 50 g
• Powdered sugar - 100 g
• For decoration:
• Chocolate - about 1 bar
• confectionery topping
• Cherry

Directions

1. For the dough you will need cherry syrup. To prepare cherry syrup, you need to pour sugar into the water, heat to a boil. Pour cherries into syrup and boil for 10 minutes. Pour lemon juice into the syrup.
2. Cool the cherry syrup for 20 minutes and drain the cherry in a colander.
3. Put the syrup without cherries to cool.
4. And put the cherry on a baking sheet and put in the oven (180 degrees) to dry for 20 minutes.
5. Prepare cream: Combine softened butter, cream cheese and icing sugar. Mix the cream well with a mixer and refrigerate for an hour.
6. To make muffin dough, mix together flour, baking soda, cornstarch and sugar.
7. Melt the butter.
8. Pour margarine into flour, add sour cream. Mix.
9. Gradually pour cherry syrup into the dough, bringing it to the consistency of dough for pancakes.
10. Add cocoa.
11. And mix with a mixer.
12. Add cherries and mix gently.
13. Divide the chocolate-cherry batter between the molds, filling them 1/3 full.
14. Put the molds with the dough in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees. Bake chocolate and cherry cupcakes for 30 minutes.
15. Melt the chocolate in a water bath.
16. Cool ready-made chocolate muffins with cherries and decorate with prepared cream, melted chocolate and colored confectionery toppings.
17. New Year's chocolate muffins with cherries and cream are ready.
18. Bon appetit!