Amazing aroma, chocolate delicate taste, soft tender pulp that melts in your mouth … Muffins, how wonderful they are! Learning how to cook them correctly.
Recipe content:
- Varieties of muffins
- How to make chocolate muffins - all the secrets of cooking
- Chocolate muffins: a step by step recipe
- Chocolate muffins with liquid filling
- Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Video recipes
Muffins are small, round (sometimes oval) baked goods that are mostly sweet, similar to muffins. The size of the muffin usually fits in the palm of an adult. Separately, the muffins made from corn flour stand out. The composition of the dessert can include all kinds of fillings, incl. blueberries, cinnamon, pumpkin, banana, nuts, chocolate chips, raspberries, peaches, oranges, carrots, strawberries, lemon, etc.
To obtain a chocolate-colored muffin, and not the color of coffee with milk, a bar of dark dark chocolate of at least 60% is added to the dough, which is heated in a water bath, and not cocoa powder. You can also break the chocolate into small pieces and throw it into the dough without additives - it will melt beautifully during baking. Cherries go well with chocolate dough, especially those soaked in alcohol and nuts - walnuts, pecans.
Varieties of muffins
There are 2 types of muffins: American and English. To make American muffins, baking powder or soda is added to the dough, and for English muffins, yeast dough is used. The most popular are the first. Also today, special mixtures for baking muffins have been developed, which improve the structure of the finished dessert, give a certain taste and saturate with aroma. And with the addition of additional components, such as candied fruits or nuts, the mixture helps to maintain the desired shape of the delicacy without settling additional products on the bottom of the product.
How to make chocolate muffins - all the secrets of cooking
Many people mistakenly confuse muffins with muffins, believing that they are one and the same baked goods. However, muffins were baked in ancient Rome, and muffins were a culinary invention much later. These are completely different desserts, despite the similarity in appearance. Muffins are always small, and muffins are large, can have a through hole resembling a ring, baked in rectangular or round forms. If you compare the recipe for kneading the dough, then the difference will immediately be noticeable. Muffins are a sweet biscuit, and muffins are like filled biscuit or yeast donuts. The dough kneading technology also differs - muffins are low in calories and lighter, although their weight is heavier, and muffins are baked with a lot of eggs, flour and sugar. And the main difference between muffins is that dry and liquid products are mixed separately, while the liquid is poured into the dry mass, and not vice versa.
If many are familiar with baking cupcakes, then muffins seem unusual to many housewives and not everyone knows how to cook them. It's not that complicated though.
- The dough is kneaded by hand or with a mixer.
- All ingredients are kneaded, not whipped. Lumps are acceptable for piquancy, and even needed in the dough.
- The dough is kneaded for a few minutes.
- More liquid (eggs, milk, kefir, yogurt) and less butter and sugar are added to the dough. Therefore, muffins are more dietary.
- If berries are added, then the frozen ones are not pre-thawed, otherwise they will let the juice out, from which the baking will turn out wet.
- Muffins are always portioned baked goods.
- Dessert is baked in small tins with ribbed edges, 2/3 filled. They can be silicone, metal, or paper.
- Before baking, metal molds are oiled and sprinkled with flour. In silicone molds, only the bottom is lubricated, then the dough rises well and a beautiful round top is formed. Paper - do not oil, becausethey do not require any processing.
- Muffins are baked for 15 minutes in an oven preheated to 190 degrees.
- The product is not afraid of drafts and moving around the oven.
- The finished treat looks like mini-muffins with a dense crust, lumpy crumb and large air bubbles.
- Products are stored for no more than a day.
Chocolate muffins: a step by step recipe
If you have never made muffins with chocolate, then it's time to try your hand at this delicious confectionery experiment.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 350 kcal.
- Servings - 15
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 100 g
- Flour - 200 g
- Baking powder - 2 tsp
- Cocoa powder - 2 tablespoons
- Vanillin - 1 tsp
- Butter - 70 g
- Milk - 70 ml
- Dark chocolate - 50 g
Step by step cooking:
- Mix all dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, sugar, cocoa, chopped chocolate.
- Combine liquid foods, melted butter and eggs. Then pour in the milk and stir quickly.
- Pour the liquid mass into the dry food and mix.
- Divide the dough into tins, filling 2/3 of the pieces.
- Place the tins on a baking sheet, which is sent to the oven preheated to 220 ° C and bake the muffins for 15 minutes. In extreme heat, the dough rises quickly and forms an appetizing crust with a cracked top. Perhaps the product will seem a little damp, but these are real muffins.
- Remove the finished dessert from the molds after cooling.
Chocolate muffins with liquid filling
The French know a lot about desserts, especially if it's a chocolate dessert, like muffins with liquid filling. Such a delicacy will not disappoint anyone.
Ingredients:
- Bitter chocolate 70-80% cocoa - 200 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Egg yolk - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 70 g
- Wheat flour - 60 g
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
Step by step cooking:
- Combine broken chocolate and sliced butter in a container. Melt the food in a steam bath, stirring thoroughly until smooth.
- Whisk the eggs, yolks and sugar into an airy foam.
- Combine the chocolate and egg mixture.
- Mix the flour with salt and add the liquid component to them.
- Fill the molds with dough and bake the dessert in a heated oven up to 200 ° C for 7-10 minutes. The edges of the muffin dough will be baked and the filling will remain runny. Serve hot.
Note: This dough can be stored in the refrigerator for several days, but then the baking time will increase to 12 minutes.
Chocolate Chip Muffins
These muffins will serve as the perfect quick breakfast or snack for evening tea: appetizing, satisfying and nutritious. It is also convenient to take the product with you on trips and on a picnic.
Ingredients:
- Dark chocolate 70% - 150 g
- Butter - 150 g
- Eggs - 4 pcs.
- Sugar - 70 g
- Flour - 100 g
- Baking powder - 0.5 tsp
Step by step cooking:
- Beat eggs with sugar and stir in butter at room temperature.
- Cut the chocolate into pieces or cut with a knife.
- Combine flour with baking powder and mix. Add chocolate chips and stir again.
- Pour liquid foods into a bowl of flour. Mix everything well.
- Fill the muffin tins with 2/3 parts of the dough and send to bake in a heated oven up to 175 ° С for 20 minutes.
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