for 12 pieces

Muffins

100 g	butter, soft
150 g	sugar
2 pinch	salt
3	eggs
150 g	white flour
¾ tsp	baking powder
¼ tsp	sodium bicarbonate
100 g	ground hazelnuts

Icing

100 g	milk chocolate
50 g	butter
20 g	icing sugar

How it's done

Muffins

Mix the butter, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to mix until the mixture turns paler in colour. Combine the flour, baking powder and sodium bicarbonate, stir into the mixture together with the nuts, divide the mixture evenly between 12 muffin cases or greased holes in a muffin tin.

Bake

for approx. 20 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool a little, remove from the tin and leave to cool on a rack.

Icing

Melt the chocolate, butter and icing sugar in a pan on a low heat, stir until smooth. Distribute the icing evenly over the muffins, allow to dry.

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