Chocolate Muffins
Soft chocolate muffins, with chocolate chips for extra crunch. If you haven’t got the chance to see how to make parchment paper muffin liners at home, I am also including a short demonstration video on how to make them, no matter the pan size you have at home.
I’ve opted to decorate with whipped cream (of course…) and some melted dark chocolate on top.
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Chocolate Muffins:
Equipment: 6 holes Muffins Tin, lined with cupcake liners, or make your own muffin liners.
Recipe: 6 Muffins, 58g batter each
For the chocolate muffins batter:
| Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
| Vegetable Oil | 27g |
| Unsalted Butter, melted | 27g |
| White Granulated Sugar | 108g |
| Eggs | 50g (1 Medium sized egg) |
| Milk | 85g |
| Vanilla Extract | 1 tsp |
| All Purpose Flour | 125g |
| Dutch Processed Cocoa Powder | 15g |
| Baking Powder | 6g (1 + 1/4 tsps) |
| Salt | 1/2 tsp |
| Dark Chocolate Chips | 75g |
For the cream and decoration:
| Ingredient | Amount (g / units) |
| Heavy Cream (38%) | 150g |
| White Granulated Sugar | 15g |
| Dutch Processed Cocoa Powder | 7g |
| Dark Chocolate, melted, for decoration | 55g |
Preparation instructions:
- Preheat your oven to 190C (fan mode off), placing a baking rack at the lowest level inside the oven.
- Into a medium sized mixing bowl, sift the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder and baking powder, and set to the side.
- Into a separate large mixing bowl, add the melted butter, oil, sugar and salt and mix them together.
- Add the eggs, milk and vanilla extract to the butter mixture and whisk well to combine.
- Add the dry ingredients to the liquid ingredients, and mix for about 2 minutes, using a spatula, to a smooth batter.
- Add the chocolate chips and fold them into the cake batter.
- Using a 5.5cm ice cream scoop, portion 58g of batter into each hole of the muffin pan. Alternatively, you can transfer the batter to a piping bag and pipe the required amount of 58g.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 18 minutes. Allow the muffins to cool down completely before decorating.
Assembly:
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, using an electric handheld mixer, beat the cream together with the sugar and cocoa powder, until stiff peaks.
- Pipe or scoop the cream on top of each muffin, top with some melted dark chocolate, and garnish with sprinkles.
