Lower Fat? Chocolate muffins

 

I am back with a new recipe.  My chocolate muffins.  For about two weeks I was craving something chocolatey, but at the same time, I did not want something too dense.  I decided a muffin might do the trick.  I did not make these to give away, but a couple did get away,  I made them for purely selfish reasons.  I wanted chocolate, good chocolate.  I did not hold back in my ingredient choices.  I used Extra Brute cocoa powder and Callebaut chocolate.  Were they good?  Let's just say I ate 6 in about 6 hours.  I labeled them low fat because I these did not require a lot of added fat.  Here is my recipe.  I am giving it in metric because it's just the way to go for these.

Ingrients:

•  250g  AP flour
• 67g  cocoa
• 300g sugar
• 1/2t baking soda
• 1t baking powder
• 1/2t salt
• 295g vanilla Kefir
• 1 egg
• 45ml canola oil
• 1t vanilla extract
• a handful of chopped milk chocolate

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Weight flour, cocoa, and sugar in a large bowl.  Add baking soda, baking powder and salt.  Wisk well.  In a medium bowl, weight Kefir, and oil.  Add the egg and vanilla.  Mix well.  Poor wet mixture on dry mixture and stir together with a red large spatula (yes, it must be red).  Do not over mix!  Fold in the chocolate chunks.  Using a spoon or ice cream scoop, fill 14 lined muffin tin's no more than 3/4 full.  Bake for 20-25 minutes rotating pan's halfway through.  Use a toothpick to test for doneness.

I actually sprinkled sugar on top of mine before baking, but I don't think that was a good choice.  These did not need it.  Baking in a new oven for the first time, I had to keep a close eye on them.  I  made the mistake of overfilling mine, so some of them got too large and they did not bake quite evenly.

Overall, I will defiantly make these again with the notes I mentioned above.  Hope you enjoy.  Do yourself a favor and use good cocoa powder.