Muffin SUCCESS!
So, after Lisa posted about her Chocolate Espresso Cake with Caffe Latte Cream, I went into chocolate craving mode. Which, for me, is quite serious, as I’m actually not a chocaholic. I’ll have chocolate maybe 2-3 times a month, and the rest of the time I’m quite happy to snack on honey roasted cashews as my sweetie. Mmmm…cashews…
Anyway, what could I do? I’d used the last of my cooking chocolate (couveture, 73% pure, YUM!) and only had chocolate chips, which meant my options were either cookies or muffins.
Muffins? Could I? Should I? Do I dare?
YES!
So, after the trip to the butcher and greengrocers, I rushed home and pulled out Stephanie Alexander’s “The Cook’s Companion” (often referred to in Australia as the cooking bible - it’s certainly big enough!!). I beat, I mixed, I poured…
and SUCCESS! YES! They are light, fluffy, moist, and other than the fact that I went completely overboard when adding the chocolate chips (cue image of me dancing around the mixing bowl waving bags of choc chips in the air) and added far too many, they are AMAZING!
Ingredients
butter, for greasing the pan
220g self-raising flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
3/4 cup milk or buttermilk
1 egg
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C, and grease muffin tin
2. Mix flour and caster sugar and any other dry ingredients (such as chocolate chips, nuts, spices, dried fruit)
3. In a seperate bowl, combine milk, eggs and oil and whisk together lightly. Add any additional wet ingredients you may wish (such as fresh berries, grated carrot or apple or mashed banana)
4. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, pour in wet mixture and mix lightly together. Spoon into muffin tins and bake for 20-25 minutes, till lightly browned on top and a skewer inserted comes out clean.
5. Remove tins, turn out onto a wire rack, cool and consume.
I also added walnuts to mine (as I’m a bit of a nut fiend), which added a nice crunchiness and helped to detract from the sweetness of the overwhelming amount of choc chips!
Yes, I know the muffins don’t have any wrapping, not being a muffin maker I had no lining papers! 
They still taste good though!
*Edit: I don’t recommend this recipe as the very next day these muffins started ‘weeping’ oil and by the morning after that they were oily outside, and dry and tasteless inside. For a better cupcake recipe, look here.
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Ellie You’re both the bomb-diggity, yo! If I had my way, I’d roll your kitchens into one, smoosh them together to mix them nicely, then bottle the product to sell! I’d be a millionaire 
Hehehe!
Lisa hmm.. my lil smiley that I intended to be kissy face certainly looks a lil irate, eh? I need to brush up on my emoticons! Could this be it: :* ? lol
Lisa apparently not.. and now my sentiment has kinda been over shadowed by my fuss of incorrect emoticons.. oh dear.. so.. you guys? Uhmm..
:) I HEART YOU :)
Ellie Lisa, seriously, you crack me up!! I’ve just rolled out of bed (no work or uni today - I get the whole day to…study!!) and that’s just given me the best start to the morning!
I think every day should start with a hearty chortle-ortle-ortle! Hehehe, hope you had a good one
Alicat haha yeah that was really nice Lis, sending us the PMSing frowney face. Real nice. Bitch. 
Lisa har! Now I’m gonna find the correct smilie freakin face if it kills me!!
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bigboss So everybody has a favourite muffin story, or should have. Last weekend I arrived at my uncle’s house to be greeted by my aunt,
‘Would you like a muffin and coffee? we have chocolate and Blueberry with wings’
‘Whats blueberry with wings?’ I asked
‘Well your uncle and I had a disagreement about 10 minutes ago, I had my back to him, washing up, when suddenly he shouted some obscenity and a muffin hit the window, by my face’
‘Okay’ I said ‘Then what’
He stormed out, and returned just before you arrived, appologetically seeking a return to normal relationships’
She continued, I asked him why how come the blueberry muffin had hit the window, all he could say was ‘The chocolate ones did not have wings’
‘What should I do?
Ellie LOL!
Mmmm, flying muffins - forget Jenny Craig, that’s the ultimate way to diet! Baked goods that make you work for their calorie-laden goodness! Hehehe
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it’s 2:15am, but I’m not quite sure how I should respond - other than giggle at the mental image of a flying blueberry muffin. Baked goods counseling, perhaps?
I’m so happy and proud of you my little conquering soldier!! They look mighty tasty! A job well done! They turned out so poofy and goldeny delicious looking! I’ll be putting my supply of freshly made linen bandages away as, obviously, they won’t be needed - yay!