Chocolate chocolate chips muffins

Wonderful chocolate flavour - your kids will love them!

I used the recipe from Nigella Lawson.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/nigella-lawson/chocolate-chocolate-chip-muffins-recipe.html

No need to use any hand whisk just my spatula to mix n fold in.

Recipe 

Dry ingredients

1 n 3/4 cup plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

2 tbsp Hershey's cocoa powder

3/4 cup caster sugar

3/4 semi sweet mini chocolate chips

Mix all the above in a large mixing bowl

Standby 1/4 cup of chocolate chips to sprinkle on muffins before baking 

Next wet ingredients 

1 room temp egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup n 2 tsp veg oil - I used canola oil

1 cup of milk room temp

Mix all these in a measuring jug ( good idea)

Pour the wet into the dry - do not over mix. Slightly lumpy with flour mix in cannot see any more white.

Preheat oven to 180 degree celcius 

Line 12 hole muffin trays with paper cases.

Use a icecream scoop to fill the muffin cases.

Sprinkle the additional chips on surface before baking.

20 mins should be enough.

Remove from oven n let sit for about 2 minutes.

Remove to rack n cool completely.

The chips are very hot on the surface.

I recommend to use a tissue to touch the surface when lifting out the muffins.

The batter

Before baking

After baking

Enjoy!!

Double chocolate chip and mint cookies

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These cookies are so delicious and so chocolatety that you can't stop at one only!

I used the recipe from this link http://adamsfarms.com/blog/recipes/sue-adams-makes-double-chocolate-chip-mint-cookies/

I added an additional 1/3 cup of flour to the dough mixture. Mades loads of cookies.

I brought them to share with my office friends n they really enjoyed them. What a wonderful recipe.

Ingredients used - not in picture vanilla essence

Dried peppermint leaves  8 teaspoon almost the whole packet used

Recipe 

1 cup SCS salted butter about 200gm softened 

1 cup of brown sugar

1 cup if caster sugar 

2 eggs at room temp

8 tsp of dried peppermint leaves

2 cups flour (1/3 more than original recipe)

1/3 cup Hershey's cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda 

250g Hershey's semi sweet choc chips

1 cup toasted walnuts chopped

1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

Use a large bowl n cream the butter, n both sugars using a wooden spoon. 

Beat in the eggs.

Add in the vanilla n mix well.

In another bowl mix the flour, baking soda n cocoa powder.

Mix the dry mixture into the creamed mixture.

Stir in the peppermint leaves, walnut n chocolate chips

Keep in fridge to chill at least 30 mins.

Prepare lined trays.

Heat oven to 180 deg celcius.

Drop teaspoonful onto trays n spaced apart. 

Bake for about 9 minutes . 

Slide paper off tray. 

Then after a minute , slide cookies into cooling racks. 

Cookies are soft after baking n difficult to hold immediately. 

I also kept my dough in fridge between baking.

Recipe yields more than 60 pcs.

Before baking 

After baking 

They really taste good !!

Happy baking!

Banana chocolate chip cake

 

After all the excitement of Halloween is over, I finally settled down to do other bakes not related to pumpkin.

 

It's been a long time since I used bananas and I tweaked this recipe and incorporated chocolate chips and cinnamon too for added fragrance to the cake.

 

The original recipe is from simplyrecipes.com.  titled Banana Bread Recipe

 

It is easy to do and you don't need an electric beater.  I chose to do this so that I can involve my daughter as well.

 

Recipe

Ingredients

3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed

1/3 cup melted butter

1 cup sugar

1 egg, beaten

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon baking soda

Pinch of salt

1 1/2 cups of plain flour

I also added about 1 /3 cup of semi sweet chocolate chips and more for sprinkling on top

about 1/4 teaspoon of ground cinnamon

 

Method

 

Preheat the oven to 175 deg celcius. ( I used 170)

Use a wooden spoon to mix the melted butter with the smashed bananas in a large mixing bowl.

Mix in the sugar, egg and vanilla.

Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in.

My step - Mix the flour with the cinnamon and chocolate chips. Add in and mix.

Butter one loaf pan and pour the mixture in. Sprinkle more chocolate chips on top.

Bake for 1 hr.  I used about 50 minutes.

Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

 

 

 

Bananas and melted butter

My daughter mixing it up

 

 

Before baking

 

 

 After 50 minutes, crusty chocolate top

 

 

Yummy cake ready to eat!

 

Happy Baking!