Pimp my Muffin - decorate muffins
On all occasions, I like baking muffins, recently I baked some for my girlfriend's birthday again, I thought there must be something on it, which is nice to look at. So I grabbed marzipan paste, food coloring (LMF) (but best of all Schwartau's sugar sticks), tax decals (sugar pearls), powdered sugar and couverture, and experimented a bit, and that's what came out:
The marzipan "piglet head":
Take the marzipan paste and estimate how much you could use, then sprinkle your work surface with powdered sugar (so that the marzipan does not stick) on the marzipan you now give a few splashes of red LMF. (From experience, the sugar sticks are best, the marzipan takes this color better than, for example, the liquid LMF) and knead everything well, if the marzipan sticks to the doll, hand over some icing sugar again and again, if you use the Color result is satisfied, just form a ball per piggy head, just form two ears above the ball with your fingers, form the nose of a small ball, and press on the big ball in the middle and press with the help of a toothpick purely nostrils, finally simply fix the eyes with the help of two sugar pearls - ready.
Horseshoe:
For this I did not dye the marzipan, because I had silver sprinkles (see photo) just form a sausage and then form a horseshoe, I then pressed it a bit flat and with the help of brown sugar pearls holes / nails indicated or some with silver crumbles sprinkled.
shamrocks:
Simply dye the marzipan green and use a mini cookie cutter to cut out four hearts (four hearts per shamrock) and glue the hearts together. (put something on each other)
Of course, there are 1000 other variations, just try it.
The muffins (with the blue glaze) were great, with my girlfriend and her guests and we were all Ü-30 ;-)
A few more tips:
White couverture can be dyed with the help of this sugar font / LMF Prima (see photos blue)
Simply cut horseshoe out of puff pastry (stencil), bake and decorate as you like (it will work well on New Year's Eve coffee table)
And if you do not fancy marzipan decoration, just pick up a few toothpicks and glue them to the theme of matching stickers (they will last by themselves) and into a muffin and ect. stuck (see photo)
