Chocolate Chocolate Chip “Muffins” :)
Why, these look a bit familiar… They look strikingly similar to the chocolate cupcakes I filled with dulce de leche a while back. Hmm.. How could that be?
Oh. Because “chocolate muffins” don’t exist. They’re just cupcakes that we eat for breakfast! Oh, we’re so silly. Oh well. Whatever lets us get away with eating chocolate for breakfast, right? :)
I got this recipe from The Ghirardelli Chocolate Cookbook that a lovely friend got for me a while back. Warning: This book will make you salivate.
For some reason, every one of the recipes I’ve tried from this book have ended in at least partial disaster… I must be doing something wrong. Maybe I should stop being so frugal and start using Ghirardelli chocolate? Hm. Well, whatever it is, I hope I figure it out soon. I love this book, and all of the recipes sound like they’d be amazing. Then I mess up. Darn.
Anyway. Back to the cupca— I mean, “muffins.”
My soul reason for making these muffins was to emulate the muffins that my former house-mates and I miss so much. Our dining hall made some pretty decent food, but their chocolate chocolate chunk muffins were beyond delicious. They were perfectly chocolatey, perfectly dark, perfectly moist, with perfectly crisp tops… I’m drooling just thinking about them. The moment I get my fingers on that recipe, oh, there will be nonstop muffin-making and nonstop muffin-consumption in this apartment! (Just kidding… maybe.)
These muffins were decent. Honestly, they were just too dry and not quite chocolatey enough. To be honest, I think I may have baked them a few minutes too long (instructions called for 20, I should’ve gone 17 for a more moist muffin). I also must admit that I kind of strayed away from the recipe a bit … (don’t ask). I should actually try the recipe some day just as is, too… Don’t know what came over me!
I won’t give up on this muffin experiment until I succeed — even if it takes all summer!
P.S. If you missed the note in my last post, be sure to check out this summer food blog my friends and I are all contributing to this summer. We’re all living on campus without meal plans, and, oh boy, we’re all stoked for the awesome food adventures to come! We just had our first potluck on Sunday, so be sure to check out the blog! :)
