Chocolate Muffins

I returned back to baking after a very long time and I am putting here a new recipe. As I am very lazy I decided to go for a recipe which will give you a yummy result with a minimum effort. I suspect that a domestic goddess Nigella Lawson is a little same in this way and thus I usually go for her recipes. So here it is - super tasty chocolate muffins with a chocolate chips/pieces.

We will need:


- 250 g plan flour (1 2/3 cups)
- 175 g (1 cup without 2 tablespoons)  brown or caster sugar
- 250 ml (1 cup) milk
- 1 egg
- 90 ml (little bit less than 1/3 cup) vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoon baking powder

- 1/2 teaspoon soda bicarbonate
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
-1 tablespoon vanilla extract

- 2 tablespoons cacao

- at least 100 g of chocolate chips

Recept v slovenčine

The amounts above will make 12 - 14 muffins.

Give me a piece of that... 

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METHOD:

1. We prepare all ingredients ahead in order to have them all at a room temperature (take the eggs from the fridge at least one hour prior baking). Preheat the oven to 220°C/430°F. Prepare/find your muffin pan (if you want to, you can put in the paper muffin cups).

2. Mix together egg, sugar, milk, oil, and vanilla.

3. In another bowl, combine flour, salt, cacao, soda bicarbonate, and baking powder.

4. Gently combine wet and dry ingredients - no hand mixer. Mix only until the dry ingredients are moistened, the final batter should be a little bit lumpy and not smooth. When you lift your spatula, the batter should fall down in pieces, it should not pour down in one stream.

5. Divide the batter (the batter will be rather runny, so do not panic) into 12 - 14 paper cups (put in a muffin pan) and bake at 220°C/430°F for 5 minutes, then bring the temperature down to 20°C/400°F and bake for another 5 minutes, and lastly bring the temperature down to 180°C/350°F for another 10 minutes. This playing with temperature will make your muffins rise well.

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