Need to eat Ikea’s meals with out truly going there? It’s potential. Get the style of Ikea’s princess muffins at house with superstar chef Molly Yeh’s mini muffins. The confection from the Swedish furnishings retailer impressed the Lady Meets Farm host to create Mini Strawberry Princess Cakes.
Molly Yeh’s mini muffins take 3 hours to make
The Food Network star’s mini muffins are a labor of affection. They take somewhat over three hours to make from begin to end, in accordance to Food Network’s directions. Nonetheless, simply because they’re time-consuming doesn’t essentially imply they’re all that difficult to put together.
As Yeh as soon as famous on her My Name Is Yeh weblog, even she will get misplaced studying princess cake recipes.
“I’ve read a few recipes for princess cakes. They involve gelatin sheets and syrups and all sorts of steps that kind of jumble all together on the page and get lost in my one-track marzipan mind,” she mentioned.
“When I eat the mini princess cakes at Ikea, I simply taste marzipan, cake, raspberry jam, whipped cream, and more marzipan,” she added. “So I winged these little guys to come up with a super easy solution that might not be the most authentic, but sure is amazingly tasty.”
So what’s her trick? Making a easy sheet cake, reducing it into circles with a biscuit cutter (a ingesting glass will work too), and, lastly, adorning with marzipan.
Yeh’s mini muffins begin with 1 huge sheet cake
Not like her halva bars, Yeh’s Mini Strawberry Princess Cakes require extra dishes and steps. To begin, she mixes collectively the substances for a vanilla sheet cake. As Yeh as soon as famous on her Food Network present, it’s vital not to overmix the batter. In any other case, the cake will change into powerful.
As soon as the batter is mixed, the 32-year-old spreads the batter out on a sheet pan and bakes it. Right here’s the place a vital step is available in. The cake can’t be heat when it will get lower into tiny circles. As Yeh defined on Lady Meets Farm, “it’s important that the cake is cooled. That way you get cleaner cuts.”
So as soon as the cake has cooled and the circles have been lower out, Yeh spreads each with a layer of jam and do-it-yourself whipped cream. Then they go within the freezer to agency up.
The ‘Girl Meets Farm’ host covers her mini muffins with marzipan and decorations
After the muffins have firmed up within the freezer it’s time for the marzipan. Yeh places store-bought marzipan in three separate bowls earlier than including meals coloring. What she’s left with is inexperienced, pink, and purple marzipan.
From there the cookbook writer spreads skinny purple discs of marzipan over every mini cake. Then she makes “little flat snakes” of marzipan earlier than coiling each to create marzipan roses. Lastly, she provides a couple of inexperienced marzipan “leaves.” The top end result, in accordance to Yeh, is fluffy, candy, and almond-flavored muffins “worthy of royalty.”