Chocolate-Chocolate Chunk Muffins

"Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!! These sound heavenly!!"
 
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Ready In:
40mins
Ingredients:
12
Yields:
12 muffins
Serves:
12
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ingredients

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directions

  • Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
  • Butter or spray the 12 molds in a regular-size muffin pan or fit the molds with paper muffin cups (Alternatively, use a silicone muffin pan, which needs neither greasing nor paper cups.)
  • Place the muffin pan on a baking sheet.
  • Melt the butter and half the chopped chocolate together in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water; or do this in a microwave.
  • Remove from the heat.
  • In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • In a large glass measuring cup or another bowl, whisk the buttermilk, egg and vanilla extract together until well combined.
  • Pour the liquid ingredients and the melted butter and chocolate over the dry ingredients and, with the whisk or a rubber spatula, gently but quickly stir to blend.
  • Don’t worry about being thorough — a few lumps are better than overmixing the batter.
  • Stir in the remaining chopped chocolate.
  • Divide the batter evenly among the muffin molds.
  • Sprinkle tops with coarse white sugar.
  • Bake for 20 minutes, or until a thin knife inserted into the center of the muffins comes out clean.
  • Transfer the pan to a rack and cool 5 minutes before carefully removing each muffin from its mold.

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Reviews

  1. I can't eat chocolate (migraines), but boy, are there chocolate lovers in this family! My partner, Harry, and his three boys (teenagers, all of them), are fluent in chocolate... as is his entire family! So, I made this recipe with just a minor change - I doubled the chocolate. Yes, that means doubled the chopped chocolate (I didn't have bittersweet, I used semi-sweet), doubled the cocoa, and doubled the chocolate chunks (more semi-sweet chunks). The buttermilk was expired, so I used the old lemon juice in the bottom of the measuring cup, topped with milk trick, left it sit while I readied everything else, and perfect (icky) chunky buttermilk like milk came out. These muffins were mixed with a light hand, just as Azparzych instructed, and perfect, it's-a-bird-it's-a-plane-no-it's-super-super-chocolate-chocolate-chunk-muffins flew out of the oven! Once cool, I used a stainless steel strainer and a spoon to push through fine icing sugar for a light contrast. Sadly, that didn't last once the cover was placed on, so I made recipe #203205 and placed a small hersheys kiss on top. DP is taking those pics, so crossing fingers you'll get to see them! Azparzych, thanks for the awesome recipe - any recipe that inspires like this one deserves a special place in my recipe book!
     
  2. I'm not a very good baker so I was careful to follow the directions exactly and these turned out perfectly!!!! Moist, wonderful texture, smelled fantastic and tasted even better!! I omitted the sprinkled sugar since my husband doesnt have a HUGE sweet tooth. I made these in cupcake trays and got 20 nice sized cupcake muffins. I gave several to my daughters boyfriend who gave them a huge thumbs up, and since my daughter is an excellent baker, I felt that was good praise :)<br/><br/><br/>Thank you AZPARZYCH, these were made for PRMR tag game.
     
  3. Although I pretty much followed your recipe, I AM a chocoholic, so naturally added a small handful of additional semi-sweet chocolate chips during the final mixing! Loved the addition of the sugar on top, & will be making this great keeper of a recipe again! Might even share some the next time around, but this first batch was just for the 2 of us! [Made & reviewed in 1-2-3 Hits Tag]
     
  4. Fabulous, lightly sweet, chocolate muffin. I followed the recipe exactly and these were good to snack on all times of the day! They had a nice muffin texture but were a bit crumbly. I really liked the crunch of the coarse sugar on top. Next time I would add more chocolate chunks or chips. Freddy Cat says hi! Made for 1-2-3 hit wonders.
     
  5. Fabulous!! My kids said they are the best I have tried from different recipes here. I actually tripled the recipe as I was using them to send in with DD for her HS Art Class breakfast and she came back with not one left!! Good thing I kept 6 here or there would have been some issues. I did goof and melted all the chopped chocolate with the butter (I really should read better!) and then added some semi-sweet chocolate chunks to the batter at the end. They were really full of chocolate flavor because of my goof but it did not affect the texture at all. I'll be making these often - the kids would have an uprise if I did not promise this! Truly a terrific find in 123 Hits tag game.
     
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<p><span><strong>I am a stay at home mom to two wonderful boys; Joshua (8years), Kaiden (5 years), and baby GIRL, Madalynn (19 months)! &nbsp;I also have&nbsp;two fur babies (cats); Kobee, AJ; we had to put our youngest cat Sly down Jan 2014. :(. I am also&nbsp;married to my best friend, Jeff and have been since April 2005.&nbsp; I love cooking, hate cleaning and will do whatever I can to get out of it!&nbsp;&nbsp;I&nbsp;love grilling and baking.&nbsp;&nbsp;I do most of the grilling at my house, and bake for almost a week straight at Christmas time!&nbsp; I can make or will attempt just about anything,&nbsp;though I rarely make&nbsp;brownies, my husband's are the best!&nbsp; Homemade breads are not my friend, so I am always working on bread baking.</strong></span></p> <p><span><strong>As for recipe ideas (besides zaar) Cooking Light Cookbooks are my favorites.&nbsp; I love to make new meals and try new things; it is hard though because my husband is picky when it comes to veggies (and hates seafood); If it were up to him we would have baked-bread crumb chicken and white rice at least one meal a day!&nbsp; Over the past couple years with zaar, I have found tons of new recipes&nbsp;my family&nbsp;normally wouldn&rsquo;t eat&nbsp;but have been happily surprised with new favorites.</strong></span></p> <p><span><strong>I&nbsp;love to join in&nbsp;all of the tag games; I haven't been as present as I would like, but as soon as my Jeff is back from working in Ohio I will be back in full tagging mode! </strong></span></p> <p><span><strong>Cooking is my hobby and passion, I always like to host the family get togethers and volunteer for the potluck dishes.&nbsp; Most of all though&nbsp;are my kids; being home all day with them is fun and challenging, but I wouldn&rsquo;t trade it for any salary!!</strong></span></p>
 
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