Chocolate Heaven Chocolate Muffins

Ridiculously easy to bake, these delicious muffins that are great eaten alone or served with vanilla ice-cream.  Serve them fresh-baked to stun and amaze your friends.  They’re a firm favourite with the ladies of The Chocolate Lovers’ Club.


The lowdown:

Getting it together:
Cooking it:
Oven set to:
Makes:
Gear needed:

20 minutes
20 minutes
190c/375f/Gas 5
12 muffins
Paper baking cases
Muffin or patty tin with 2.5cm deep wells


What you need:

125g
90g
30g
2
1tsp
200g
15g
¼tsp
150ml
60g

unsalted butter
granulated sugar
dark brown sugar
eggs
vanilla extract
self-raising flour
cocoa powder
salt
milk
dark chocolate, roughly chopped


Here we go:

  • Cream the butter, then beat in both types of sugar until the mixture is light and fluffy.

  • Lightly mix the eggs and vanilla together.  Then beat them into the creamed ingredients.

  • Sift the flour, cocoa and salt together.  Fold the into the butter mix a spoon at a time, alternating with the milk.

  • Put the paper cases in the muffin tin.  Half-fill with the mixture.

  • Sprinkle a few pieces of the chopped dark chocolate on top.  Then put another spoonful of the mixture over it.

  • Bake for twenty minutes, until muffins are beautifully risen and feel springy to touch. 

  • Cool on a wire rack for as long as you can bear to wait!