Chocolate Muffin with Peanut Buttercream Frosting

I promised my friend's kids that I would make them muffin when I see them next time. With an easy chocolate muffin mix brought from 'Bake With Yen' which I usually go to but my baking supplies, I decided to make a quick muffin bake, topped with peanut butter frosting. This is my first time using this easy mix from BWY and with some creativity, I created some penguin look-alike muffins for them too. I was so happy when I see the smile on her faces and they're shouting cupcakes! Well, sometimes I can't tell whether its muffin or cupcakes myself ;-). Hope that they will enjoy eating them!

Chocolate Muffin

INGREDIENTS

4 eggs, 

500g muffin mix

130ml water 

135ml corn oil

METHOD

1. Put all ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir until combined well.

2. Divide the batter into 16 cupcake cup equally using a ice-cream scoop or spoon.

3. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 190 Celcius for 20 minutes.

4. Let the cupcakes cool on a wire rack before decorations.

Peanut Buttercream Frosting
(Recipe adapted from allrecipes.com)

INGREDIENTS

50g butter

125g creamy peanut butter
2 cups icing sugar
30ml whipping cream (you can substitute with milk)

METHOD

1. In a large bowl, beat butter and peanut butter until light and fluffy. 

2. Slowly beat in 1/2 of the confectioner's sugar. 

3. Mix in 1/4 cup of the cream. 

4. Beat in the remaining confectioners' sugar.

5. If necessary, add a little more cream or milk until the frosting reaches a good spreading consistency.

DECORATIONS

1. Use a spatula to spread the peanut buttercream on the muffin and decor with some sprinkles and chocolate rice.

2. To create the penguin-look, I use Munchy mini cookies. Separate the cookies and pipe some buttercream to stick the cookies on top of the muffin. Finally pipe the nose and walla, penguin look alike.