Christmas comes early at Maya Kitchen
MANILA, Philippines - It’s never too early to whip up merry sweet creations as The Maya Kitchen shows how you can dress up cookies and bake oversized muffins studded with glazed fruits. Swoon over a heavenly combo of choco-covered biscuits filled with mint-flavored cream cheese. Dip one side in dark choco and the other white for that smashing contrast.
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Irish Cream Glazed Fruit Muffins
Ingredients:
1 pack 550g Maya Decadence Devil’s Food Cake Mix
2 pcs. eggs
1/2 cup water
2 tbsps. Irish cream
2 cups glazed fruits (soaked in tbsps. Irish cream)
Procedure:
Pre-heat oven at 375°F or 190°C. Grease and line three 6-hole (3 oz.) muffin pans. In a bowl, slightly beat the eggs then add water, Irish cream and cake mix. Pour 1/2 cup batter mixture onto prepared muffin pans then top with glazed fruits and bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
Sparkling Cookies
Ingredients:
1 pack 520g Maya Decadence YellowCake Mix
2/3 cup Maya Cornstarch
2 tbsps. butter
6 tbsps. water
sugar
food color as desired
Procedure:
Pre-heat oven to 375°F or 190°C. Lightly grease two baking sheets. Cut butter into the flour-cornstarch mixture then add water gradually until it forms a soft dough. Roll dough to 1-4–inch thickness and cutout dough using Christmas cookie cutters. Prepare different colored sugar by mixing it together with food color. Cover completely the top portion of the cookie with colored sugar and arrange cookies 1-inch apart in the prepared cookie sheets. Bake for 10 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. While still warm poke hole on upper top of cookie using hard straw. Insert ribbon or colored thread and tie a knot to serve as hangers.
