Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons best quality cocoa
3/4 cup superfine sugar
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
plus 1/4 cup for sprinkling
1 cup milk
1/3 cup + 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
1 egg
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions:
1. In a large bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, and sugar.
2. Stir in the 3/4 cup chocolate chips.
3. In a medium sized bowl, whisk the milk, egg, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir together (but don't over-mix it either. should be a little lumpy)
5. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
(see Mark's notes - 375 degrees worked better for us).
6. Take a 12 muffin tin and line it with paper muffin cases.
7. Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin pan.
8. Using the 1/4 cup chocolate chips, evenly sprinkle those on top of the muffins.
9. Bake for 20 minutes or until the muffins have risen and an toothpick inserted comes out clean. (see Mark's Notes - 15 minutes worked better for us).
10. Remove from muffin tin and let cool.
11. Enjoy.
Mark's Story (or Miriam's Story)
For one of her 4H projects, Miriam decided she wanted to make chocolate muffins. So, I did a Google search and found this recipe from the Food Network. I gave her the recipe, and she did everything herself. I just supervised and I was not allowed to help.
Miriam used the mise en place method - she measured out all of her ingredients into separate bowls before starting. Once she had everything measured out, she mixed together all the dry ingredients in one bowl, then mixed together all the wet ingredients in another bowl, and then combined the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients.
She did a practice batch that turned out slightly overdone. The final batch was perfect.
Mark's Notes:
The practice batch was baked at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, and the muffins were over-done. So, for the final batch, we decided to bake them for 15 minutes at 375 degrees and that was perfect.
Here is the link to the original recipe from The Food Network:
Here is the link to the original recipe from The Food Network:
