Chocolate muffins

Chocolate muffins are an easy-to-prepare dessert that even a novice housewife can master. A small set of ingredients and a simple baking method allow you to quickly obtain delicious products for treating your family or for unexpected guests.

Homemade chocolate muffins with cocoa

When baking chocolate muffins, a lot depends on the quality of cocoa powder used: the higher quality product used, the tastier the muffins will be. In addition, you should not skimp on cocoa if you want to get a rich chocolate taste of the product.

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   How to make chocolate muffins at home? The butter is melted and mixed with milk and eggs.
2. 
   In a separate container, combine the dry ingredients - cocoa powder with sugar, baking powder and sifted flour.
3. 
   Add the dry ingredients to the milk-egg mixture and mix well.
4. 
   The resulting dough is laid out in special molds and sprinkled with chocolate drops on top.
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   Prepare the muffins in the oven at 180 degrees and bake for 25 minutes until done.

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Muffins with chocolate filling in the oven

Fragrant muffins with a rich chocolate filling are a great option for preparing for evening tea or as a treat for a hen party or friendly gatherings. You should choose the type of chocolate for the filling based on your own preferences - bitter or milk.

Cooking time: 35 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Butter – 100 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Wheat flour – 180 gr.
• Baking powder – 1 sachet.
• Cocoa powder – 2 tsp.
• Bitter or milk chocolate – 100 gr.
• Powdered sugar - for serving.

Cooking process:

1. In a bowl of suitable size, mix eggs with slightly softened butter and sugar.

2. Stir cocoa into the mixture, add baking powder and sifted flour. The dough should be smooth.

3. Place the dough into paper or silicone molds, up to half of each container.

4. The chocolate bar is divided into the number of parts, based on how many molds will be filled with dough. Place a piece of chocolate in the middle of each mold and add more batter to cover the chocolate. It is important not to fill the molds to the top with dough, otherwise it may fall out of the molds during baking. The pieces are placed in the oven, where they must be baked for 20 minutes at 160 degrees.

5. After this, remove the muffins from the oven and let them cool in the molds for 3 minutes. After this, the products are sprinkled with powdered sugar and served.

Quick and Easy Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe

An easy recipe for muffins with chocolate chips inside. To make the products more airy, you should use high-quality margarine or good butter, and also do not skimp on baking powder and sift the flour.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Chocolate – 200 gr.
• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Butter or margarine – 100 gr.
• Baking powder – 2 tsp.
• Wheat flour – 200 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Beat the slightly softened butter well with sugar until smooth and fluffy.

2. Beat the eggs into the sweet butter mixture and beat thoroughly again.

3. Break the chocolate into small pieces and roll them in flour so that the chocolate in the dough is distributed more evenly. Pour the prepared chocolate pieces into the fluffy mass.

4. Mix baking powder with flour, add a pinch of salt and add portions to the eggs mixed with butter and chocolate, mix gently.

5. The finished dough is laid out in baking containers and placed in the oven turned on at 180 degrees for 20 minutes. Before serving, let the muffins cool slightly and sprinkle with chocolate chips.

Delicious muffins with liquid chocolate filling

Juicy muffins, which have a liquid chocolate center when cut, are a very impressive baked product that is easy to prepare and surprise your family or friends with this dish. High-quality dark chocolate is an important component of products.

Cooking time: 20 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 4.

Ingredients:

• Bitter chocolate – 100 gr.
• Wheat flour – 40 gr.
• Butter – 60 gr.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Baking powder – 1 sachet.
• Granulated sugar – 40 gr.

Cooking process:

1.The oven must be heated to the desired temperature - 200 degrees - in advance.

2. The chocolate is broken into pieces and combined with chopped butter in a water bath. You should get a homogeneous mass.

3. Separately, beat eggs with salt and sugar to form foam.

4. Gently mix the chocolate-butter mixture with egg foam, add flour, baking powder and salt. Knead into a homogeneous dough.

5. Divide the dough into the baking molds, not reaching the edge of the molds, so that the baked goods have room to grow. The blanks are kept in the oven, heated to 180 degrees for 7-10 minutes, but no more, otherwise the middle of the muffins will be over-baked and will not retain a liquid consistency. Muffins are served warm.

Chocolate muffins with kefir in silicone molds

Delicious, mouth-watering muffins with chocolate flavor can be prepared using kefir. To give them more flavor, you should use Nutella nut butter or any chocolate equivalent.

Cooking time: 45 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Kefir – 200 ml.
• Wheat flour – 1.5 tbsp.
• Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
• Margarine – 100 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Soda, quenched with vinegar - 1 tsp.
• Chocolate-nut butter – 10 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Using a whisk, beat the egg with granulated sugar until a fluffy mass is obtained.

2. Pour slightly melted margarine into the whipped egg-sugar mass and mix well, add kefir.

3. Sift the flour and pour it into the dough piece, mix and add soda, quenched with a small amount of vinegar.

4. At the very end, cocoa powder is mixed into the dough. It is better to use powder with the highest possible content of cocoa beans - at least 80%.

5.Place batter into each muffin pan, filling about a little more than half the muffin tin. Then spread a teaspoon of nut-chocolate paste and cover it with dough on top, without closing the molds to the edges so that the baked goods have room to expand.

6. Bake chocolate muffins from kefir dough for half an hour. The oven should be heated to 180 degrees.

How to bake chocolate muffins with cherries?

Fresh cherries perfectly complement the taste of chocolate and add a pleasant piquant sourness to baked goods. In combination with the rich chocolate taste of the dough, as well as cherries and almonds, you get juicy and aromatic muffins that none of your guests or family can refuse.

Cooking time: 35 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 5.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 150 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp. l.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Bitter chocolate – 100 gr.
• Butter – 90 gr.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 135 gr.
• Vanilla sugar – 10 gr.
• Almonds – 30 gr.
• Cherry – 200 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Remove the pits from the cherries, cut the berries into halves and roll in flour.

2. Grind the almonds to obtain fine crumbs.

3. In a saucepan over a water bath, mix the butter and chocolate.

4. Separately sift the flour, add baking powder and cocoa.

5. Beat the eggs until foamy, adding granulated sugar in portions, and then mix with the butter mass and almond crumbs, add the dry ingredients and cherries, knead into a homogeneous dough.

6. The blanks are laid out in molds and kept in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes until baked. Serve warm, sprinkled with powdered sugar if desired.

Homemade chocolate muffins with banana

Another bright and effective combination for chocolate muffins: the recipe uses bananas and hazelnuts, instead of which you can use any other types of nuts.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 4.

Ingredients:

• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Sour cream – 150 gr.
• Chocolate – 100 gr.
• Banana – 2 pcs.
• Hazelnuts – 100 gr.
• Baking powder – 2 tsp.
• Wheat flour – 200 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Break the chocolate into pieces and bring to a liquid state in a water bath, stirring.

2. Bananas are cut into small cubes.

3. Hazelnuts or other nuts are crushed with a blender or food processor until they are not too fine.

4. Slightly softened butter is ground with granulated sugar, and then eggs are beaten in and sour cream is added, the mass must be mixed thoroughly.

5. Next add melted chocolate, banana pieces and crushed nuts. Lastly, add flour and baking powder and knead into a homogeneous dough.

6. Place the dough into the molds to a level of 2/3 of the total volume of each and bake for 20-25 minutes. Cooking temperature – 180 degrees. Finished products can be decorated with pieces of chocolate, bananas and nuts.

Delicate chocolate muffins with milk in the oven

An easy recipe for delicate chocolate muffins, prepared with milk and vanilla. Do not fill the molds to the very top with dough, as they will rise during baking.

Cooking time: 40 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 5.

Ingredients:

• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 150 gr.
• Butter – 150 gr.
• Milk – 125 ml.
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l.
• Vanillin – 0.5 tsp.
• Baking powder – 1.5 tsp.
• Wheat flour – 200 gr.
• Powdered sugar - for serving.

Cooking process:

1. Beat the eggs well with sugar to make the mixture lighter. This will take about three minutes.

2. Slightly softened butter is added to the egg mixture and beat well again, then pour in the milk.

3. At the next stage, add dry ingredients - cocoa powder and flour, add baking powder and vanillin last, and then mix everything thoroughly again.

4. The resulting dough is distributed into molds and baked for half an hour when the oven is heated to 180 degrees.

5. Finished products are decorated with powdered sugar if desired and served slightly cooled.