Cardamom cupcakes

Next Tuesday (the 12th of Feb) it's what we call Fat Tuesday in Sweden. We eat these special buns on this day but I'm not a big fan of baking with yeast since it takes too long, so I decided to make a cupcake version  of the buns and the result is surprisingly good. I found a recipe but it's for big muffins while I only had cupcake tins so I think they could have been even better.

Ingredients
makes 12 big muffins or 20 small cupcakes
200 g butter
300 ml milk
300 ml sugar
3 eggs
600 ml plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp ground cardamom

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Melt the butter, then beat the eggs together with the sugar until they're white and fluffy. Mix in the milk with the melted butter and beat it together with the egg mixture. Fold in the flour, baking powder and cardamom. Pour the mixture into the muffin/cupcake tins and bake in the oven for about 20-25 minutes. Let them cool down.
When serving them you should cut off the top of the bun, take out a bit of the middle and fill them with 150 g almond paste mixed with a bit of cream in order to soften it up a bit. Whip 300 ml of cream and put in the middle of the cupcake. Put the top on and dust some icing sugar over it.