Chocolate Caramel Muffins (Surprise)

Submitted by Tisme

"I found this in the woman's day cookbook, which is for cooking with kids. This is a great and easy recipe, when you want to cook with the kids or grandkids! These muffins are best served warm, I have used other sweets Rollo's are good and CarAmello chocolates are divine!"

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 12

ingredients

• 2 cups self raising flour
• 1⁄2 cup caster sugar
• 1⁄2 cup pecans, finely chopped
• 100 g dark chocolate, grated
• 2⁄3 cup milk
• 125 g butter, melted
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
• 6 jersey caramels, cut in half

directions

1. Preheat the oven to moderate, about 180c.
2. Lightly grease a 12 hole muffin pan.
3. Sift flour into a large bowl, and stir pecans and chocolate.
4. In a jug/bowl, whisk the milk butter and egg together.
5. Make a centre in the flour mixture add the milk mixture all at once, and mix lightly until combined ~ and please dont overmix!
6. Spoon enough mixture into each of the muffin holes ~ only to half fill and.
7. top each with a half caramel and cover evenly with the remaining muffin mixture.
8. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean and dry when inserted into centre of muffin.
9. Transfer to wire rack and cool.

Reviews

[Amelia C.]

I'm sure it would have been a lovely recipe, except for the fact that there is no sugar in the recipe! I followed it till the end and only realized the sugar was not included when I tasted it. This led to trying to add the sugar at the end, which led to over mixing, which led to tough muffins :(