Another must-do for my blog is a decent chocolate muffin. I've been dreaming to make this for quite a while and finally had some spare time to whip them up. The recipe I've chosen is from Donna Hay's "simple essentials - chocolate" book that is heaven for any chocolate-addict like me. Recipes for brownies, muffins, chocolate mousse, chocolate soufflé and many more...
Here's the recipe:
300g (2 cups) all-purpose flour
50g (little less than 1/3 cup) cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
220g (1 cup) superfine sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
160ml (2/3 cup) vegetable oil
125ml (1/2 cup) milk
150g (4 3/4 oz) milk chocolate, chopped.
1) Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F). Chop the milk chocolate. Sift the flour and cocoa powder in a large bowl. Mix it with baking powder and sugar.
2) In a separate bowl, stir the eggs, vanilla extract, vegetable oil and milk together. Add the egg-mixture to the flour and mix until combined. You can use a kitchen machine, hand blender or simple egg beater. Fold in the chopped chocolate.
3) Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Fill the cases with the dough. Bake for 20-25 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.
Yield: 12
Active preparation time: 10 minutes
Total preparation time: 40 minutes
© Copyright: Donna Hay, "simple essentials-chocolate", p. 40
Here's how mine turned out:
If you want your muffins to be slightly fudgy in the middle, bake them until a skewer comes out almost clean. I baked mine for 25 minutes, so they are baked through. You can chop the chocolate into pieces of any size you want. I went for squares of about 1/2 cm (0.2 inch). It's also good to invest in a good milk chocolate. You can taste the difference!
If you like, you could add dried cherries, fresh orange zest or chopped nuts (pecans, walnuts) to spice things up.
Have fun trying and give in to those chocolate cravings!
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