Strawberry & almond muffins with cream cheese frosting and amaretto biscuit crumbs – Zselyke’s name day

Let me show you a small detail from our weekend. We celebrated the name day of my daughter, Zselyke. True, the name day is already over, but the second child is not the first. But I think we could finally make her feel special. The only thing I feel sorry for is that I could not really take photos of the balloons because they flew away too early. I hope you also had a great weekend.

 The soft creamy cheese is a really good match with strawberries: it is the goat’s cheese that makes these muffins really exciting. But the best part is definitely the amaretto biscuit crumbs on the top. And you can prepare them extremely quickly. Although they are not really for children, still, they could try the muffins.

Strawberry & almond muffins with cream cheese frosting and amaretto biscuit crumbs

Ingredients:

For the strawberry & almond muffins:

- 150 g all-purpose flour

- 100 g almond (roasted and ground)

- 2 tsp. baking powder

- ½ tsp. baking soda

- pinch of salt

- 1 egg

- 120 g sugar

- 100 g soft butter

- 180 ml sour cream

- 20 strawberries

For the cream cheese frosting:

- 40 g Philadelphia cream cheese

- 40 g Goat cream cheese

- ½ vanilla bean

- 2 tbsp. powdered sugar

- 15 g butter (cut in cubes)

For the amaretto biscuit crumbs:

- 50 g digestive biscuits

- 2 tbsp. Amaretto liqueur

- 15 g butter (cut in cubes)

Preparation:

1. For the muffins mix the dry ingredients. Beat the egg with the sugar with an electric mixer, then add the butter and the sour cream. Mix in the dry ingredients and fill the cavities of a muffin pan with the batter (it will yield appr. 10 muffins), and hide two strawberries in each of them. Bake the muffins in the oven preheated to 160°C until 30 minutes. Let them come to room temperature.
2. Mix together the ingredients of the frosting with an electric mixer.
3. Crush the biscuits in a food processor. Add the butter and the Amaretto and pulse them in the food processor until crumbs form.
4. Spread the frosting on the muffins and sprinkle them with the Amaretto biscuit crumbs.