Ingredients for the base:
- 150 g / 5.3 oz of fresh dates
- 50 g / 1.7 oz of raw carob powder
Ingredients for the filling:
- 200 g / 7 oz bananas (measured without peel)
- 100 g / 3.5 oz of dried apples
- 50 g / 1.7 oz strawberries
Ingredients for the decoration:
- 1 sweet apple
Equipment:
- food processor
- flower-shaped silicone muffin molds
- blender
- knife and cutting board
- butterfly-shaped fruit cutter (in the shape of a butterfly or any other shape of your choice)
Preparation:
- Remove the pits from the dates.
- Put the dates and carob powder in the food processor.
- Process these ingredients into a dough like mixture.
- Put some dough into a silicon muffin mold, pressing it to the bottom and along the inner walls of the mold.
- Continue until you use up all the dough.
- Place the molds in the freezer to have the muffin crusts tighten up.
Filling preparation:
- Peel the bananas.
- Put the dried apples in the blender.
- Blend the dried apples into flour.
- Add the bananas and strawberries to the flour in the blender.
- Blend these ingredients into a creamy filling.
- Remove the molds from the freezer.
- Fill up each mild with some filling.
Now we have flowers, so we need butterflies 🙂
- Peel the apple.
- Cut the apple into thin slices.
- From each slice, make a butterfly shape with a butterfly-shaped cutter.
- Let one butterfly land on each flower, and then return them together to the freezer to have the muffins tighten up.
- As for the flowers, we also need leaves, so we will employ spinach leaves for this cause.
- Spring muffins are ready!
I hope you like these spring muffins and that they will sweeten your spring. Thanks in advance for commenting and sharing this recipe.
Keep glowing,
Marina