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Fifth time lucky muffins

The days have been zooming past extremely quickly. Falling like the leaves on the trees at the mo. They’ve been filled up with plenty of delicious (very exciting) things. I was busy making plenty of Christmas food for a Elle à table (hitting French newstands in November), working on Christmas biscuits for La Cocotte, writing recipes and working on my new baby plus there’s the usual stuff like keeping up with the Parisian social scene…

So it took me five goes to get this recipe right but finally I’m happy with it. Fingers crossed you might see it published one day

Dulcheese muffins
Makes 12

Muffin mixture

270g flour
2 tsp baking powder
50g sugar
2 eggs
100ml milk
80ml vegetable oil
250g dulce de leche
150g chopped walnuts

Cheesecake mixture

125g ricotta
75g cream cheese (i.e. carré frais)
2 tbsp crème fraiche
2 tbsp sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla essence
3 tbsp flour

Decoration
100g dulce de leche for the decoration
50g chopped walnuts

Preheat the oven to 180°c
Muffin mixture
Sift flour and baking powder together. Combine sugar, eggs, milk, oil and dulce de leche. Mix until smooth. Fold in the flour and chopped walnuts.

Cheesecake mixture
Combine all the ingredients together and mix until smooth and ‘lump free’.

Put a heaped tablespoon of the muffin mixture, followed by a heaped teaspoon of dulce de leche and then finally a heaped tablespoon of the cheesecake mixture. With a toothpick or the tip of a knife swirl the mixtures around. Finish by sprinkling some chopped walnuts and drizzling with some more dulce de leche. Bake for 25-30 minutes.