Recipe for homemade chocolate muffins
Chocolate cake must be almost the most common dessert! Therefore, it also needs to be absolutely perfect.
Just as they say you can judge a restaurant by its simplest dishes, I also think you can dare to claim that you can judge a person’s baking skills by a plain chocolate cake.
It might sound a bit harsh, but it’s just a hypothesis! ?
When I recently had an overwhelming craving for chocolate cake, but didn’t just want to settle for whipping up a sheet cake, I decided it had to be chocolate muffins!
They were baked slightly less than most might do, but that simply made them MUCH more delicious and more chewy. I think some chocolate cakes can easily become a bit dry and boring if they are fully baked through.
A good and rich chocolate flavor is greatly enhanced by not being TOO stingy with the salt, and the salt should preferably be of a certain quality – that’s something I care a lot about.
You can EASILY choose to serve the finished chocolate muffins just as they are, but you can also decorate them with a good homemade raspberry mousse (as I did) – or try spreading a creamy dulce de leche over them! At least, I think I’ll try that next time.
Ingredients
- 165 gram Chopped chocolate or 150 grams
- 1 package Butter 250 grams
- 220 gram Sugar
- 2 gram Salt I used sea salt
- 4 Egg
- 50 gram Cocoa powder roughly
- 125 gram Wheat Flour
Instructions
- Put chocolate and butter in a saucepan.
- Melt it on the stovetop into a uniform mixture.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and let it cool.
- Preheat the oven to 170 degrees Celsius (338 degrees Fahrenheit) (conventional top/bottom heat).
- Meanwhile, whisk sugar and eggs into a light and fluffy batter.
- Add salt.
- Sift flour and cocoa powder into the egg mixture.
- Gently fold the now cooled chocolate mixture into the egg mixture.
- Place the molds on a baking rack.
- Pour the batter into the molds. Fill the molds about 3/4 full, so your muffins have room to rise a bit.
- Place the rack in the middle of the oven.
- Let your muffins bake for 25-30 minutes.
- Remove the finished muffins from the oven and let them cool on the rack.
- Serve the delicious chocolate muffins as they are, or decorate them as desired.
