I love muffins, the American cake type of muffin rather than the UK bread muffins. I had previously tried to make them at home but felt they lacked a certain something in comparison to shop-bought ones. I then tried a recipe from Nigella's website: http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_detail.aspx?rid=12489 and was very pleased with the result. This recipe is for double chocolate muffins but to be honest I prefer chocolate chips in a plain vanilla muffin, I find chocolate cake and chocolate chips all a bit rich.
This time I left out the cocoa powder, used milk chocolate chips (only 100g) and I was really pleased with the result:
Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Muffins
250g plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
half a tsp bicarbonate of soda
175g sugar
a few drops of vanilla extract
100g chocolate chips
90 ml vegetable oil (not olive oil)
250 ml milk
1 egg
Set oven to Gas 6/200 C/400F
Set out muffin cases.
Sieve flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl. Add sugar. Make a well in the middle.
In a jug, mix the milk, egg and oil. Pour into the well in the dry ingredients and beat for a short time until incorporated. Don't worry if mixture is a bit lumpy. Fold in most of the chocolate chips but reserve a few to sprinkle on the top. Pour batter into cases then sprinkle on reserved chips. Bake for about 25 minutes.
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