Mars Bar Muffins Food

MARS BAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• Cream the butter and sugar.
• Add the eggs one at a time, beating well.
• Add vanilla essence.
• Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder and fold into the butter/sugar/egg mixture.
• Stir in the milk.
• Chop (quite finely) the Mars Bars and add to the mix.
• Grease/line a muffin tray and spread the batter evenly.
• Bake at Gas Mark 6/200C/400F for approximately 15 minutes.
• Eat!
• NB. The number of Mars Bars you use will affect the amount of muffins this mixture makes, so I've approximated the serving figures.

MARS BAR MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 180 fan and line a baking tray with 18 muffin cases. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl.
• Add in the eggs a little at a time. (if you have them whisked in a separate bowl you can pour them in the butter mixture on a scale until it reads 125g)
• Fold in the flour until it is all combined and add the milk and vanilla essence.
• Fold in the chopped mars bar.
• Fill the cases and cook for 15 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.

NO-BAKE-MARS-BARS-COCO-POPS MUFFINS

Steps:

• Line 2 mini muffin pans with paper cups.
• Take one Mars Bar and slice it into thin wafers and then cut those in half so you have tiny squares of Mars Bars. (Refrigerating the bar may help it from becoming too mushy when you slice it).
• In a large saucepan over a low heat melt the butter and remaining 4 of the Mars Bars until it is a runny caramel.
• Do NOT overcook as the butter and Mars Bars will become a toffee if you leave it to heat too long. The minute it has no lumps and is runny take it off the heat.
• Immediately add the Coco Pops and stir until combined.
• Put one teaspoon full of mixture into each paper cup and press down firmly so that it takes the shape of the cupcake. Put the filled muffin pan in the fridge while you do the other one.
• By the time you finish the second pan the first will have set so tip out the muffins onto a large tray and put more paper cups into the pan.
• Continue in this way until all of the mixture has been done.
• Melt the chocolate and place about a teaspoon full over the top of each muffin and smooth it gently.
• Finally add a square of sliced Mars Bar to decorate.
• Edited to add: I made this recently with jumbo sized cereal balls which I had chopped roughly with a knife as I couldn't find Coco-Pops and it was very nice. (Some even preferred the Nesquick chocolate cereal ball version.) I also made these as normal muffins and they were just as wonderful in a larger version.