Thursday, 26 January 2012

New poll

Hey guys,
Here is a new poll to give me inspiration for the next post!

Saturday, 21 January 2012

To dessert or not to dessert? Double chocolate muffins with praline

I haven't blogged in a few months. I have been very busy at work and I haven't had to write more articles for work until... you guessed it, today!
So here I went again today; I dusted, hoovered, mopped, scrubbed the house from top to bottom and vice-versa. Then I decided to cook something to motivate me to finish writing that article. I chose Double chocolate muffins with praline. Something very moreish to make me feel guilty so I would be redempted by doing my work. At first, the chocolatey - and I mean really chocolatey - muffins made me sleepy but hey, in the end, the treats did work a treat! I did finish the article! And there are even some muffins left!
They are very easy and fast to make, which, depending on the way you look at it can be either good or bad! Good: hassle free baking; bad: well, I think I am going to make these more often now!
So, here is the recipe.



Ingredients:
Mix 1:
100 gr dark chocolate, in chunks
100 gr white chocolate, in chunks
75 gr praline, in chunks (if you can't find praline, use some hazelnut milk chocolate)
250 gr plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp good cocoa powder

Mix 2:
85 gr unsalted butter, melted
75 gr muscovado sugar
1-2 tsp honey (depending on how sweet you like things!)
2 beaten eggs
280 ml of soured cream (although I didn't have any so I used buttermilk)

Method
1. Preheat the oven at 200ºC.
2. Prepare Mix 1.
3. Prepare Mix 2.
4. Combine Mix 1 and 2 together but don't overdo it. This is very important overwise the muffins won't rise. So mix them enough that the ingredients are combined but that is it.
5. Pour the mix into muffin cases. Bake in the oven for 20 min and then, let them rest in the cases for 15 min after that.
Et voilà! They are as good hot as they are when they are cold! I should now...