simple chocolate muffins (sort of...)

So for my first post, I thought I would try a simple recipe that had very little chance of going wrong...

Ok so I decided to bake chocolate muffins, except I didn't have muffin cases so they became large chocolate buns.  I used my environmentally friendly bun cases though :)

I used Bournville chocolate and it worked pretty well, I used an unsweetened chocolate for both the cocoa powder and the choclate chips, milk chocolate would make them so sweet!

   Ingredients

   100g butter
   125g caster sugar
   100g brown sugar (dark)
   2 eggs
   150ml soured cream
   250g plain flour
   2 tbsp cocoa powder
   chocolate chips
   5 tbsp milk
   1 tsp bicarb of soda

The above recipe is to make 12 muffins (about 14/15 buns if you don't have muffin cases!)

Firstly, whack the butter, caster sugar and brown sugar into a bowl and beat together with a wooden spoon.

Next beat in the eggs, cream and milk and mix in - it should be a thick liquid at this point.

Sift the flour, bicarb and cocoa powder into the mixture and then stir until it becomes quite stiff.  Then mix in the chocolate chips...I used 100g but you can use however many you want. 

Spoon into the cases and bake for about 25-30 minutes at 190 degrees.

If you wanted to be adventurous, perhaps pop in something different to chocolate chips...perhaps nuts or cherries?  Or add some butter icing on top with chocolate chips in!

Happy baking :)

R x