Oh boy, these teacake muffins are something special! Yummy homemade muffins, topped with homemade mallow fluff and coated in dark chocolate. Get excited - these bad boys are highly addictive. Enjoy!

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 175 degrees fan assisted.

2. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl: Flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, vanilla sugar and salt.

3. Mix all wet ingredients in a separate bowl: Egg, milk, buttermilk and sunflower oil. Whisk well, then add the dry ingredients. Then whisk proper well for 2-3 minutes.

4. Add the batter to muffin tins - about two thirds of the way full. Bake for approx. 20-25 minutes - or until no batter sticks when you poke them with a knitting needle.

5. While the muffins bake, get the fluff ready. Pour water and sugar into a pot and warm it up while stirring, until the sugar crystals dissolve and the mass is syrupy - this takes 5-7 minutes or so. Pop the syrup in the fridge. Whisk the egg whites stiff.

6. Once the syrup is cool, add it little by little to the stiff egg whites while whisking. Whisk for about 8 minutes until the fluff is stiff, then add vanilla sugar.

7. Remove the muffins from the oven - but leave the oven on. If your muffins have grown little tops, simply cut them off to make room for the fluff - any trimmings can be freely consumed by the kitchen staff!

8. Pop the fluff into a piping or freezer bag, and cut a hole at the corner. Squirt little peaks onto each muffin, then bake for 5-7 minutes until golden. If things aren't happening as they should, switch on the grill setting - but keep an eye on it. Things happen fast from here!

9. Break the chocolate into smaller pieces and pop into a glass bowl. Melt the chocolate in a bain marie or the microwave. Brush the chocolate onto the fluff with a spatula or baking brush.

10. Pop the cakes in the freezer for ten minutes (or an hour in the fridge), then munch away. Should you have any left over, store in the fridge - they'll stay yummy for 2-3 days after baking.

11. Enjoy!

Tip

Tasks for kids in the kitchen: Let your kids help add ingredients to the bowl. They can also whisk the batter, whisk egg whites stuff, and brush on chocolate at the end.