This recipe is as quick and easy as it gets. Just turn the oven to 170C, get a muffin tin (I love the bendy silicone ones, so easy to get the muffins out 🙂 and/or some paper muffin cups. Sieve the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl:
- 2.5 cups flour
- 5 rounded tsp baking powder
- 1/2-1 cup cacao (depending on how chocolatey you like them)
- 1 cup sugar (I use dark brown for a lovely warm sweetness)
- 1/2-1 cup chocolate chips or cut up chocolate bar
Then mix lightly and make a “well”. Pour in:
- 1 cup milk
- 2/3 cup oil
- 1 egg
Stir, as gently as possible, till mixed. Spoon into the baking tin/cups. Makes 12 middling size muffins. Sprinkle with sugar or almond slivers. Bake about 15-20 mins till dry but still soft (not moist and squishy). If this batch are dry try again cooking less, till perfect or till you need a break from chocolate 😉
Do use FairTrade cacao and chocolate, so they don’t depend on slave (or near-slave) child labour. And try to keep some for tomorrow (for the sake of your own weight)!