Plum Chocolate Muffin

Preheat the oven to 150°C fan (175°C conventional) and grease a muffin tin or line it with paper cases.

Wash, pit and cut the plums into slices.

Thoroughly mix flour, baking powder and cocoa powder in a bowl.

Beat the egg, sugar, oil, natural yogurt, vanilla sugar and a pinch of salt in a second bowl until frothy.

Fold the flour–cocoa mixture briefly into the wet ingredients, only until a smooth batter forms.

Fill the batter into the muffin cases and arrange the plum segments on top, pressing them in slightly.

Bake the muffins for 20–25 minutes until they have risen and a skewer (not through a plum) comes out largely clean.

Let the muffins rest in the tin for 5 minutes, then remove and cool completely on a wire rack. Decorate as desired.