Chocolate or Toffee Muffins

This is a great Muffin recipe because with most muffin recipes you have to be very careful not to overmix the ingredients but this one is very forgiving.

Ingredients
2 Eggs
200g caster sugar
130g plain flour
50g cocoa powder
2 tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt
160ml milk
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
160g melted unsalted butter
120g of dark chocolate roughly chopped or same weight of dr Oetker fudge pieces


Preheat oven to 170C/gas 3

Beat together eggs and sugar until well combined.

 In a separate bowl sift together flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. In a jug combine the milk and vanilla.

When egg mix is smooth slowly add the dry ingredients mix and milk mix to it a little at a time beating slowly as you do. Beat until all ingredients well incorporated.

Stir in the melted butter with a wooden spoon then add half of the chopped chocolate or fudge chunks and mix.

Use an ice cream scoop to ladle into the muffin cases - I find i use 1 and a half scoops to each case. when all  batter is used sprinkle some of the remaining chocolate or fudge chunks on top before putting in the oven to bake, this ensures you have the choc/fudge all through the cake as if you just put in the mix they tend to sink to the bottom.

Bake for about 30 minutes or until sponge bounces back when touched or a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean

You can add additional toppings if you wish, today I made a toffee frosting and then topped with chopped up chocolate bars :)

Then enjoy!