Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Muffins

What is better than a chocolate muffin? A muffin with more chocolate! So why not try to make chocolate-chocolate chip muffins?! They are easy and quick to make, and everyone at the table will rejoice. Bake them for your fancy dinner party, pack some in your kid's lunch box, prepare them for your better half for a romantic dinner, make a batch for your colleagues at work, or simply make them because it's Monday ... They work for every occasion.

For 9 muffins (7 centimeter diameter at the top, 4 centimeter diameter at the bottom, and 4 centimeter tall) or 12 small-sized muffins (6 centimeter diameter at the top, 4 centimeter diameter at the bottom, and 3 centimeter tall), you will need:

• 240 grams of flour
• 11 grams of baking powder (1 packet)
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 25 grams of cocoa powder
• 150 grams of sugar
• 180 grams of chocolate chips
• 235 milliliters of buttermilk
• 100 milliliters of canola oil
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Baking time: 15-20 minutes*


Start by pre-heating your oven at 205 degrees Celsius (400 degrees Fahrenheit).

In a bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, and sugar together.

Add the chocolate chips to the dry mix and stir together.

In another bowl, mix the buttermilk, canola oil, egg, and vanilla extract.

Pour the wet mix slowly to the dry mix, and stir together.

Slightly oil your muffins trays, and add the batter into them.

9-muffin batch

12-small-sized-muffin batch

Bake the muffins for about 15 to 20 minutes. Make sure to check at 15 minutes the inside of the muffins by poking with a knife. If the knife gets out clean, the muffins are baked. If the knife gets out with some uncooked batter, let them bake a few more minutes.

9-muffin batch

12-small-sized-muffin batch

Once baked, let the muffins rest until serving time.

As a suggestion, you can serve the chocolate-chocolate chip muffins with a delicious vanilla cream or a cardamom cream.

*Note: For the small-sized muffins, don't forget to readjust your baking time to 12 to 13 minutes.

As with all the other recipes we put on this site, this is meant to be easy to follow. We are hobby chefs who love to cook, and we are always up for learning new techniques. If you know of anything in this recipe which can be done a different way, whether for increased ease of preparation or better taste, please add a comment below!

Whipped up by Charline Leblond

Yummy Breakfast Sandwich

Here is a delicious breakfast sandwich that will help kickstart your weekday and help shake off those Monday blues. It is easy enough to put together in a jiffy, in between ironing your shirt and finding matching socks.

To make this sandwich, you just need:

• One or two eggs; depending how eggy you like it
• English muffins
• A tomato slice
• One or two slices of canadian bacon; depending how bacon-y you like it
• A few leaves of basil
• Cheese of your choice, a sharp cheddar would be a good choice.

Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins

I was making a few sandwiches at the same time, so you will see me using ingredients for multiple sandwiches in the pictures below.

Lay your cut muffins (cut-side up) on an oven tray, add the slice of cheese on one half and place it in the oven to grill. Don't grill it just yet, just get it ready.

Slice your tomato and season the slice with some pepper, salt and dried basil.

Let the tomato slice rest of a bit. Meanwhile, beat your eggs in a bowl and add some salt and pepper.

Now we are ready to start cooking things. Basically, you need to grill the bacon and tomato, and cook the eggs. I did them as a scramble, but you can do them any way you wish.

When you're eggs are almost done, pop the muffins with the cheese in the oven on your grill setting to get the muffins toasted and cheese melted. Alternately, just toast your muffins if you would rather do that.

Finally, assemble your sandwich. I did Muffin-cheese-bacon-eggs-bacon-tomato-basil leaves-muffin.

Now go start your day feeling energised!

As with all the other recipes we put on this site, this is meant to be easy to follow. We are hobby chefs who love to cook, and we are always up for learning new techniques. If you know of anything in this recipe which can be done a different way, whether for increased ease of preparation or better taste, please add a comment below!

Whipped up by Shyamal Addanki