CHOCOLATE MUFFINS

DOUBLE/TRIPLE CHOCOLATE MUFFINS 

Make this muffins as chocolate as you like. There is base from chocolate and then you can add a chocolate chips and you can make a chocolate sauce to top it. So go chocolate as you want. I am trying to eat less sweets so I have only used chocolate in base.

2-3 tbsp of Butter
100g Dark Chocolate
200g self raising flour
100g sugar
1tsp of Vanilla extract
2 tsp of Cocoa powder
Pinch of salt
2 Eggs
150ml Milk

1. Melt butter + chocolate. Coal down.
2. In a bowl mix milk + eggs and add vanilla extract.
3. In a separate bowl mix all dry ingredients; flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt

4. Mix milk+eggs in to the bowl with dry ingredients. Once mixed add the chocolate.
    If you want extra chocolate add 100g of chocolate chips, milk dark or also white as preferred.

5. Pour the mixture in muffin tin. I usually make 9-10 muffins, you can use less in each muffin and you will make more or pour more in a tin and you will have big muffins.

6. Bake in the oven for cc 20min on 180 or until baked. Try if baked with a tester or toothpick.

7. If you want the extra chocolate melt 50g of chocolate with a spoon of butter and add a spoon of sauce on a baked muffin.

APPLE PIE

I have nor planed to make an apple pie but as I bough shortcrust pastry instead of puff pastry I had to come up with some recipe to use it. I promise I will make my own pastry next time but today as we go lets use the pre-made one. :)

So I used:
- pre made shortcrust pastry
- 4 apples
- cinnamon to taste (I love the taste so I use a lot)
- some lemon juice
- sugar (white or brown, I used 2 tbsp of each)

1. So grate the apples in a bowl and smash them a bit with a spoon or something to drain some of the juice out, if there will be to much juice the pastry can be wet. Mix in the sugar, some lemon to taste and cinnamon.
2. Roll out the pastry and place it in the pie tins, I just bought the little pie pots so I used 4 of those.
3. Place the filling in the cups with pastry and use some pastry to make the stripes on top.

Bake in the oven on 170 for around 40min or until the crust is golden in colour.

It is quick recipe to make something sweet with no complication.