We returned from our trip almost a week ago. Since then, I’ve been in that awkward re-familiarizing state you live in right after a chunk of time off. Trying to get back into usual routines, remembering how to live your everyday life, forcing yourself to get out of the car and go into work. I’m sure this is sounding familiar to most everyone. All of this serves as my excuse for being absent from all things blog. Hopefully, this post will serve as a triumphant return.
Chocolate seemed the best place to re-enter the baking world. And what better breakfast treat than chocolate muffins? With chocolate chips? No arguments, I’m sure.
Please allow me a bit of a tangent. Today, I discovered Wikibooks, which is a “collection of free content textbooks.” I was familiar with Wikipedia, and this site is a part of the same family. There are books on just about every subject you can imagine. Most interesting to me, of course, is the cookbook. This book can be contributed to and edited by anyone. It looks like it still needs work, but of course that’s part of its design. Anyway, check it out. That’s where I found this recipe.
My only change to the recipe was to decrease the oven temperature to 375 degrees and the baking time to 15 minutes. I used milk chocolate chips, although I really wished that I’d had those really tiny chocolate chips. Most everyone is familiar with making muffins, and these hold no surprises. That’s not to belittle them in anyway. ‘Cause they’re good. We decided fairly quickly that these were the best chocolate muffins we’d ever had the pleasure of eating. I had worried that the amount of cocoa wasn’t enough to make them over-the-top chocolate, but it was just right. This is definitely a keeper recipe for a quick morning muffin.
12 responses so far ↓
1 peabody // Oct 14, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Welcome back.
2 Abby // Oct 14, 2006 at 4:31 pm
I’m a fan of any possible way to eat chocolate for breakfast. Or before noon, for that matter! (Work late, sleep late, that’s me.)
Those look cute and yummy!
3 Ellie // Oct 14, 2006 at 5:12 pm
Looks scrumptious! That much chocolate might make me feel guilty in the morning, but I think that as an afternoon pick me up, it’d be perfect!
4 Riana // Oct 15, 2006 at 2:31 am
Thanks for sharing this and letting me know about Wikibooks. It’s awesome.
The picture on wikibooks shows darker chocolate color, huh? Maybe it used dutch processed cocoa.
Will be trying this soon!
5 Ari (Baking and Book // Oct 15, 2006 at 6:19 am
Oh yum! Thanks so much for this recipe, my husband loves chocolate chip muffins. Now I have to find a way to make them as a surprise since he’s always around on the weekend.
6 jennifer // Oct 15, 2006 at 8:18 am
Riana, I thought the same thing. Before I made them I had the internal dilemma of which cocoa to use. I didn’t use Dutch process, but it’s certainly an intriguing possibility.
7 Brilynn // Oct 15, 2006 at 9:37 am
Glad to see you’re back in action! And thanks for the wikipedia info.
8 Joe // Oct 15, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Since the recipe calls for baking powder (and not soda) Dutch Process cocoa would work well!
9 Lauren // Oct 16, 2006 at 12:27 pm
I’ve recently found your blog and I just hava to say it’s elegantly delicious - wonderful!
10 jennifer // Oct 16, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Thanks for visiting, Lauren!
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