Chocolate muffins with ginger

Chocolate muffins are made with caramelized ginger, ground almonds and orange zest.

Ingredients

• Black chocolate (chopped) - 100 g
• Butter - 90 g
• Ground almonds - 100 g
• Ginger caramelized (cut into slices) - 2 tbsp. l.
• Orange peel - 1 tbsp. l.
• Egg whites - 6 pcs.
• Flour - 75 g
• Baking powder - 0.5 tsp
• Salt - 1/8 tsp
• Powdered sugar - 225 g
• Cocoa powder for powdering finished products

Directions

1. Turn on the oven to preheat to 200 degrees. Butter 12 muffin tins.
2. Melt dark chocolate in a water bath, remove from the bath, let cool.
3. In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt, powdered sugar, ground almonds, ginger and orange zest.
4. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites into a fluffy white mass. Gradually add dry ingredients and melted chocolate to this mass, mix with a spatula.
5. Pour batter into prepared molds, filling halfway. Place in preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, bake chocolate muffins until clean wooden stick when pierced. Remove the finished chocolate muffins from the oven, let stand in the molds for 5 minutes, and then remove from the molds and leave the muffins on the wire rack until completely cooled. Sprinkle chocolate muffins with cocoa powder.