Halloween Marshmallow & Chocolate Muffins

Happy Halloween everyone!

I don't usually celebrate, so this was a chance to make something halloween-ish :)

Muffin mixture

70 g butter

280 g plain flour

6 tbsp cocoa powder

3 tsp baking powder

85 g caster sugar

1 egg beaten

300ml milk

100g milk choc chips

55 g mini white marshmallows

Orange Icing

250g butter, cubed, at room temperature

450g (3 cups) pure icing sugar, sifted

60ml (1/4 cup) milk

1 tsp vanilla essense

red food coloring, yellow food colouring (to make orange!)

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Method

preheat oven to 190C

melt butter

sift flour cocoa powder and baking powder in a large bowl. stir in sugar.

whisk egg, milk & melted butter together, and gentley stir into the flour mixturee to form a stiff batter.

Gently stir through choc chips and marshmallows.

Spoon into muffin cases, and bake for 20-25 minutes until well risen. leave to cool in tin for 5 mins, and cool completley before icing.

With the icing i just beat everything together, and added the food coloring - until i got the right colour.

I Baked these for about 23 mins, they were slightly dry! So i'd say bake for 18-20 minutes instead :)

oops! almost forgot!

the decoration, i just bought a tube of white fudge icing from woolworths, drew four circles starting from small in the middle. then using a toothpick, start from the centre & work your way out, to make it look like a cobweb :)

Enjoy!