Cheese and Chives Muffins With a Gooey Topping

This unique and tasty muffin recipe is a great savoury twist on the popular muffin. It comes from Susanna Tee's book "1 Dough-100 Muffins". If you dont want to indulge too much, leave out the topping, the muffins are great without it, too.

• Ready In: 35 mins
• Yields: 12 muffins

Ingredients

• 280  g flour
• 3  teaspoons baking powder
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 150  g gouda cheese, grated (or use cheddar)
• 4  tablespoons fresh chives, chopped
• 2  eggs, beaten
• 250  ml buttermilk
• 6  tablespoons  oil

• Topping

• 50  g flour
• 40  g yogurt
• 1⁄8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 25  g gouda cheese, grated (or use cheddar)

Directions

1. In a big bowl combine flour, salt, pepper and baking powder.
2. Stir in chives and gouda cheese.
3. In a second bowl combine all the wet ingredients. Stir into the dry ingredients making sure not to overmix. The dough will be rather stiff.
4. In a third bowl combine the topping ingredients. It will look like a second muffin batter.
5. Fill the muffin batter into prepared muffin tins. Scoop a bit of the topping onto each muffin.
6. Bake in the preheated oven at 190°C/375°F for about 25 minutes. Muffins are ready when lightly golden on top and a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.