for poker players

 POKER CUPCAKES

"My name is Alice, so please your Majesty," said Alice very politely; but she added, to herself, "Why, they're only a pack of cards, after all, I needn't be afraid of them!"
Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 eggs
• 0.5 cup caster sugar
• 1 stick butter (100g, unsalted)
• 1 cup natural yoghurt
• 1 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 teaspoons vanilla sugar
• 0.5 cup desiccated coconut
• 0.5 cup flaked almonds

• 1.5 cups cream cheese
• 1 bar white chocolate (100g)
• 1 strawberry jelly
• 0.5 bar dark chocolate (50g)

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Mix the egg yolks with the sugar and add the butter.

2. Fold in the yoghurt and sifted flour with baking powder and 
vanilla sugar.

3. Beat the egg whites until stiff and combine with the batter. 
Fold in the coconut and almonds.

4. Fill paper liners with the batter.

BAKE:   20 min.   160° C

5. Combine the cream cheese with the melted white chocolate 
and top the cooled cupcakes with it.

6. Dissolve the jelly powder in 1.5 cups hot water and pour it into 
a flat vessel. Cool it in the refrigerator for several hours. Then cut 
out hearts and diamonds.

7. Melt the dark chocolate and use a pastry bag to form clubs and 
spades on baking paper. Cool them in the freezer for half an hour.

8. Garnish the cupcakes with the card suits.