CHOCOLATE MUFFINS
Ingredients
50g cornflour
45ml cocoa powder
100g dark brown soft sugar
225ml cold water
75g unsalted butter,cubed
125g dark chocolate, broken small
75ml sunflower/vegetable oil
10ml vanilla extract
2 large eggs
125g caster sugar
125g flour
12.5ml baking powder
Serves:12 muffins
Source: Dan Lepard, Guardian.
Method
Put the cornflour, cocoa powder, brown sugar and water into a saucepan that will hold all the ingredients.
Place on a medium heat and whisk together as the mix heats up. The mix will become thick and glossy, once very thick remove from heat.
Beat in the butter and chocolate until melted and combined.
Add the oil, vanilla, and one of the eggs and beat again to mix as well as you can, there maybe some oil left not mixed.
Add the remaining egg and caster sugar, beat again until smooth and thick.
Measure the flour and baking powder into a bowl, then sift over the chocolate mix, and beat through until combined, looking thick and glossy.
Spoon into 12 muffin cups in the pockets of a muffin tray.
Bake at 180C for 25 minutes.