Fabulous Fireworks Muffins Recipe You could go for the tasteful all-sliver sparkler look. but personally It like them covered in butterly over-the-top colouredsparkling balls and stars.

Make 12
Ingredients:
250 g/9 oz/1 2/3 cup self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
150 g/5 oz/2/3 cup caster sugar
3 tbsp ground almonds
2 eggs, beaten 175 ml/6 fl oz/ 3/4 cup milk
100 g / 31/2 oz butter, melted

To decorate:
25 g/1 oz butter
1 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp boiling water
150 g/5 oz/ 1 1/3 cup icing sugar, sifted
Tiny edible silver or coloured shiny balls and stars. for sprinkling
12 mini indoor sparklers

Method:
Machine generated alternative text: Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°FGas 6. Grease or line a 12—hole niullin pan.

Combine the flour. baking powder. sugar and cocoa and sift Into a large bowl. then sprinkle the almonds 1mo the bowl.

In a separate bowl or jug. combine the eggs. milk and butler, then pour into the dry Ingredients. Stir together Until combined. then spoon large dollops of the mixture Into the prepared muffin pan.

Bake for about 20 minutes until risen and firm to the touch. Leave to cool in the pan for a couple ol minutes. then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

To decorate. put the butter in a heatprool bowl sel over a par of simmering water and leave Lo melt. Stir In the cocoa
until smooth, then stir in the boiling waler.

Gradually stir in the iciniZ sugar and stir br about 2 minutes until glossy if very thick. stir in a drop more waler.

Spoon over the muffins, then sprinkle with shiny balls and stars and stick a sparkler In the ‘rnlre of each one.

Fabulous Fireworks Muffins Recipe