Chocolate muffins with cherry filling

These chocolate muffins are a recipe with a surprise inside. You can share this delicacy with your loved ones this coming holiday.

Ingredients

• Butter (room temperature) - 60 g
• White sugar - 150 g
• Egg (room temperature) - 1 pc.
• Cocoa powder - 20 g
• Wheat flour - 150 g
• Buttermilk or sour milk - 140 g
• Soda - 1/2 tsp
• White wine vinegar - 1 1/2 tsp.
• For glaze:
• Butter (room temperature) - 60 g
• Powdered sugar - 125 g
• Cocoa powder - 50 g
• Milk - 4 tbsp. l.
• For decoration:
• Cherry jam - 260 g
• Whipping cream - 100 g
• Fresh cherries or in syrup - 12 pcs.

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line muffin molds with paper baskets (12 pieces).
2. Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until fluffy.
3. Add the egg to the butter mixture and beat well again.
4. Add to the total mass of cocoa and mix well with a spoon, and then with a mixer at medium speed for 1 minute. Add buttermilk and flour, mix with a mixer for about 2 minutes. Add soda, vinegar to this mass and quickly mix with a mixer until smooth.
5. Spoon the batter into the prepared molds. Place in the oven and bake the chocolate muffins for about 20-25 minutes.
6. Remove the finished chocolate muffins from the oven and place on a cooling rack.
7. Meanwhile, prepare the glaze. To do this, beat the butter and powdered sugar with a mixer at medium speed. Then add cocoa and mix well with a spoon. Add milk and beat with a mixer for 2 minutes.
8. Make an indentation in each muffin with an apple core remover. Put a little jam into this recess and cover with the center that was taken out of the muffin.
9. Spread icing on top of each muffin, hiding the peeking center, and decorate chocolate muffins with whipped cream and cherries.