I had a sudden chocolate craving yesterday and that gave me the perfect reason to break into my new bag of dark chocolate. I needed something that was very chocolatey (naturally), that would be put together real fast and that was new to experiment with. Thumbing through my books, a lot of the cakes looked pretty elaborate. The time between picking the recipe and putting a piece of chocolate goodness in my mouth was a lot more than I could handle.
And then I found the perfect recipe for the day – chocolate chip muffins in the Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook. The photograph of the muffins looked too good to pass up. And since they were muffins, I didn’t have to bother with making a ganache for the icing. Plus they looked wonderfully moist for a muffin, and naturally so because the recipe has more butter than muffin recipes usually have. I’m not complaining.
I tossed everything together in a jiffy (that’s why the lack of in-process photographs) and in twenty minutes I had warm, super moist muffins, oozing with melted dark chocolate chunks. Bliss.
Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe
Adapted from: The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook (such a cute book!) (UK | India)
Yield: 12 muffins
Note:
- An interesting point worth nothing is that the method is somewhat a cross between a cake and a muffin – it begins with creaming the eggs and sugar together, much like we do in cakes. It even calls for adding the dry and the wet ingredients alternately like a lot of the cake recipes on this blog. As for the muffin angle – it includes stirring in the butter right in the end.
- The muffin’s pretty dense, so you can safely fill the muffin cups more than 2/3rd full.
Ingredients:
Equipment:
Muffin tray
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C. In a bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa and baking powder.
- Beat the sugar and eggs together until thoroughly mixed and pale in colour, add the vanilla extract.
- Add the flour mixture and the milk alternately into the egg mixture, until just incorporated. Start and end with flour.
- Stir in the melted butter and fold in the dark chocolate until evenly dispersed.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin tray lined with paper liners and bake for about 15-17 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
- Eat warm!
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Sounds and looks absolutely yummy – gonna be trying it this weekend :) Hope it looks half as yum as yours.
hi, im seema too :D
i will surely try eating it look really good …….
yummmmmmmmmmmmm……
A chocolate delight for another chocoholic!! Thanks for sharing.
Huzzah for chocolate!!! Now I have to get my fangs in some…and there goes my diet! ;)
Oh yes..truly bliss!
HAh, perfecto!!!
Chocolatey and so so good!
And those hearts are so so cute, now the next thing to follow is where did ya get them!!
And the cupcake liners seem pretty strong too, u get them in Bombay too?
Hey! Ramekins from Michael’s again and the liners were sent by a blogger friend.
oozing with melted dark chocolate chunks…nom nom nom
These look wonderful. Must try …
YUM! These muffins look fantastic.
I love ANY muffin but especially those who crossover into the cupcake category. This looks like a delicious recipe.
hey,
the muffins look yum!!! will definitely try them this weekend.
where do u buy ur choco chips from. they look so good…..have never been able to find such big sized ones.
Well, these aren’t really “Chips” but are actually callets. It is Callebaut Dark Chocolate.
Yum. The muffins looks great must give them a try.
Ooh, these look delicious! I love muffins, especially chocolate ones!
This would be incredible with Ronnybrook farm fresh cold whole milk. YUM!!!
Hey,
Where can I buy these callets from?? In mumbai…..
emailed you the details.
Could plzzzzzzzzzzz email that 2 me as well…I am little new at all this…
Hugs….
hey shaheen cud u pleeassee mail me the details as well……gotten tired of looking for callebaut..
thanx
Hi Shaheen,
Please mail me the details for Callebaut Chocolate seller as well.
Dear Shaheen
Could you please advise where could I get hold of Callebaut Dark Chocolate in Mumbai?
Thanks
Yasmeen
Hi,
Oh it looks so YUM !!
Nice blog you have, I am first time visitor and impressed:)
Hope to see you more often.
Cheers,
Richa
Yummy :P
Oh my… I want these right now… they look incredible. I’m going to add them to my “to do list”
These looked sooo good that I baked some last night [yes, night! had 3 of them standing at the kitchen counter]. They were the chocolatiest, softest muffins ever to come outta my oven. I used Bournville – I know, I know, but that’s all I had! They taste even better the next day! Thanks a ton! Second batch coming in this weekend!!
But mine never look as neat as yours, especially near the liner end. I can eyeball the rise and all, but not the liner thing. Mine either looks too soggy, oily or just plain crumbly – and it sticks a lot to the liners. Dunno why. Oven temprature and the dropping consistency, maybe? Any clue?
Hey Pia! I’m so glad you enjoyed this. For keeping the liners clean, pipe the batter into the muffin liners instead of spooning it it. That keeps it so neat. I’m not sure why it looks oily/crumbly though..
Ohk. What do you use to pipe it in, the bag-nozzle that is used to pipe icing? Don’t have those – will search around for them. Oily/crumbly – will send you a pic of this weekend’s batch :)
yes absolutely. Much like how I did these Honey Lavender Madeleines
Got it. Will do that this weekend. Thanks!!
hey .. tried these out too … reallllyy … everytime i see a recipe .. i wonder how are these yummy recipes available free ? & that too with consultancy on every stumblng block we face .. you are a sweetheart shaheen.
just a couple of thngs
1. had been to arife ystrdy .. the yeast that he said he has was the instant dry yeast .. is that the one you always refer to for focaccia & your mouth watering pesto rolls ? want to try them soon
2. also bought some blueberries & want to try blueberry muffns ASAP .. do you have a perfect recipe ?
3. Lastly .. do you grease the muffin tins & then place the paper cups & then spoon the mixture on it ?
Hey Meenal – thanks :)
Yes, that’s the same instant yeast I use for baking.
Where did you get blueberries from? I don’t have a blueberry recipe on the blog because I haven’t had a chance to bake with fresh berries.
No, I don’t grease the tins before placing liners in them
No haven’t been so lucky .. its just “CANNED” blueberries (i know how much you dislike the word CANNED :-)))
But have had a lot of these exotic desserts with blue berries … blue berry cheesecakes, blue berry muffins, blue berry something else … so really really wanted to buy these canned blueberries & make something out of it.
Will you be posting some recipes on them soon ?
hey! sorry didn’t get back sooner. I’m not sure when I will come around to posting it, because I’m in the midst of recipe testing. The canned blueberries are perfect as a topping. I use blueberry jam to swirl it into cake batters for a fruity flavour.
amazing recipe.. i tried it and everyone loved it.. i do think the chocolate shud be a lil less.
Meenal… if you don’t mind other sites for reference, then you can check
http://smittenkitchen.com/ she has wonderful recipes for Blueberries.
Very recently she posted blueberry muffins … very simple recipe.. must try…
Hey,
basic question- did you use salted butter or unsalted one?
also where did you get your Callebaut Dark Chocolate callets from?
Thanks for wonderfull recipe. will give it a try asap.
Hi Shaheen,
Ur blog is the best blog ever. Ur map idea with details is wonderful 2 find the right shops 4 right ingredients. And ur recipes seem like treat :) Its my 1st time & I wanna bake these beautiful chocolate chip muffins 4 my Mum(surprise her) could u plz plz plz let me know where should I buy Callebaut & callets from?
Thanking u in advance…
Hugs…
Hey Shaheen, can’t thank you enough for this recipe…..the muffins turn out utterly delicious…mmmmoist and chocolatey…. and are so very easy to make….have made these at least half a dozen times for friends n family and basked in the glory :D
They look lovely…. n you hav a lovely blog….too!!!
where can i buy callebaut and ghiradelli chocolates from?? which shop i crawford market
thanks
Hey Shaheen,
Thank you ! Am a newbie at baking and these muffins turned out perfect!!! I just made a slight change – instead of using 1 cup flour, i had half cup flour and half cup wholewheat flour (atta). Infact next time i plan to make them with wholewheat completely for a healthier version. I even decorated them with some sugar flowers.
They were enchanting.. for my first muffins ever! Thanks.
Indrani
Can’t wait to try this! Where did you get vanilla extract from? I know how to substitute it but I’ve heard the flavor of vanilla extract is the best.
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I’m going to bake this tonight and I hope it will turn out just like yours. Anyways, I hope you’d also bake some of the truffles products of The chocolate nation. I’ve been craving for their products lately and I’d like to see how you’ll do it in your own style.
Hey!
Where can I get Callebaut chocolate in bombay?
hi,
just wanted to check if the gms to cup measurement given in your recipie is a generic one that can be applied across all recipies. I dont have a kitchen scale and have a tough time trying to convert gms to cups.
Cheers
Aishwarya
It’s best to invest in a kitchen scale if you think you’re going to bake fairly regularly. Else, take a look at the measurement guide.
Thanks a lot; tried making these muffins and they turned out really good.
Simply delicious……..just made them & they’re absolutely fabulous !!!
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