Chocolate Chip Muffins and some Minis

“It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.” 

― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

Ask me about it...

Going crazy here...

Sorting ,sifting and craving...

Shopping trips still left incomplete...

Still so much to pack...

No time to blog or bake...

So I just remember the past...

Well almost.

Remember the post where I was bragging about being featured in the news paper and stuff...

That was incomplete.

Aha,something to blog about.

The Frosted Rainbow Cake and the Chocolate Chip Muffins and some Minis...

I only posted about the frosted Rainbow cake...
This was the spread.
Fresh from the Daring Bakers Challenge ...puff pastry was used in ore ways than one.
Literally.
The Mille feuille was there, along with that, vol au vents with chicken in mayonnaise and chicken patties.
And the ubiquitous egg less mini muffins with...Chocolate chips.

I did half the recipe that I usually do, and got 12 mini muffins and 3 muffins.
So the regular size muffins are actually big compared to the minis.
The coloured stuff on the platter is candy!!!!
These bite sized minis were yummmm...
What would not be...vanilla with chunks of chocolate.
You know me,no commercial chocolate chips.
I chip my chocolate myself.
That makes the difference.

for the

Chocolate Chip Muffins and some Minis...

you need

3/4 cup plain flour
1/2 cup yogurt
1/4 cup refined vegetable oil
1/2 cups sugar less 1 tbsp sugar
1/4 tsp bicarbonate of soda/baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tsp salt
100 gm semi sweet chocolate 
Handful of chopped walnuts -optional

Chip the chocolate.

Pre heat the oven to 180C/350F.

Line the mini muffin pan and the muffin cups. Line the bases with chocolate for a more melty melt in the  mouth experience.

Sift the flour with the salt twice.
Add the sugar to the yogurt and stir till mixed.
Add in the baking powder and the soda bicarbonate and allow it to fizz. About 3 minutes.
Add in the oil and the vanilla essence.
Now mix in the flour with the wet ingredients.
Stir in the chocolate chips.

Fold in.

Spoon in,only half the cupcake line ,whether it is mini or maxi. Overflow is not good.

For detailed instructions with photos ,go here.
Once done...they take only 15 minutes.
And they don't need any frosting...you can if you want to ,but why add to the calories,when the cuppies are yummy enough.
But,all yours...

For a better look...why don't you go and bake them yourself.
Lethally easy!!
Lethally Yummy!
PS, for those who haven't tried this yet...

That is the lateral cross section of the rainbow cake...pretty awesome..
But the best is a bite of magic..

Take a bite..


So what are you baking today???