If you love the combination of mint and chocolate as much as I do, these easy muffins are for you!
Extra tip: if you want/need your home to smell absolutely delicious – baking these will do the job! The smell when I opened the oven to take them out was divine 🙂
Ingredients (makes 12)
- 250 g plain flour
- 3 tsps baking powder
- 150 g caster sugar
- 1 large egg
- 225 ml semi-skimmed milk
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 150 g mint chocolate
Method
- Firstly, one answer to the question I know you’re all asking yourselves: how do you make sure muffins rise properly? Well, just pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees C. You’ll turn it down to 200 degrees C later when the muffins go in, but heating the oven like this before you put the muffins in helps encourage a good rise. It works!
- Put your muffin cases in your muffin tin.
- Mix together the flour, baking powder and caster sugar in a large bowl. In a separate bowl beat the egg and then add the oil and milk. Add the wet ingredients to the dry. Combine gently with a fork. Don’t over-beat. Your mixture should be quite lumpy – this is fine!
- Now for the chocolate. I used Aero Mint chocolate. It’s made by Nestle and widely available in the UK. It looks like this:
- However. I’m sure you could use any kind of mint chocolate you like. If you prefer to use dark chocolate, for example, I’m certain that would work too.
- Aero mint chocolate is very easy to crush, which also makes it handy for this recipe. You might need to chop your chocolate into small chips. I crushed 120 g (a whole bar) and added it to the mixture. Stir the chocolate through until it’s evenly distributed.
- To make sure I had extra chocolate in each muffin, I added one dessertspoonful of mixture to each muffin case, then I added a bit of the additional 30 g chocolate. Like this:
- Then add another spoonful of mixture to each case to cover this additional chocolate.
- Put the muffins in the oven. Remember to turn the temperature down to 200 degrees C at this point! Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until golden brown. The muffins should rise nicely. Like this:
Personally, I think they’re nicest when eaten as soon after baking as possible. That’s when the top is still a bit crunchy (yum!).
If you’d like to make a slightly healthier muffin, you can check out my recipe for banana and peanut butter muffins.
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
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Wow, these look really good and perfect for Christmas! Thanks for the recipe 🙂
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Thank you 🙂 They are delicious. I made twelve and they’ve all gone already!
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Lovely! Mint Aero is one of my faves! Great idea 🙂
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Thanks. I spend far too long in the confectionery aisle of the supermarket and I keep getting these ideas 🙂
I love all mint chocolate. My husband’s comment was, ‘I’ve never been a fan of mint and chocolate,’ before he proceeded to scoff a muffin. He ate a couple more over the next 2 days! 🙂
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Hilarious! I suppose that’s what they call “eating one’s words,” ha ha. 😉
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These look so delicious! I love the whole mint-chocolate combination as well… My favorites being mint-oreo-brownies, yummm! 😀
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I’ve tried oreo muffins but they were a bit dry. A brownie would be lovely because the gooeyness would balance the dryness of the cookie perfectly. Yum!
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I always use this recipe for brownies and they are delicious! 😀
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I’ve just bookmarked that! Lovely 🙂 Thanks!
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Ah, I miss Aero chocolate so much! It’s been years since I was in the UK and had it, but I still remember the taste.
Thanks for the recipe, Claire. Looking forward to testing it out once I find some good mint chocolate.
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If it’s any consolation, I don’t think it tastes as nice now as it did when I was younger (although that could just be me getting old!). I’d like to try this again with a dark chocolate 🙂
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I love mint and chocolate! These look so good!
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Thank you! Another successful experiment 🙂
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Love it my two favorites
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These sound heavenly. I am definitely bookmarking this for later.
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Thank you! They go very well with a nice cup of tea 🙂
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Ooh yum yum yum!! Thanks for posting this. (Is not what my hips are saying! ;-))
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They are delicious 🙂
No idea what I’ll do this week, but my son keeps picking up the empty cake tub and giving me despairing looks, so I’ll have to come up with something!
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Amazing, it’s so British for a French guy, just like After-Eight Mint Chocolates !!
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I love After Eights. Even more than mint Aero! 🙂
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You could try to create an After Eights Cupcake !!
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I’ve made After Eight brownies (which were delicious). Cupcakes would be a great idea!
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Did you already publish the recipe ?
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Yes, it’s here: https://clairehuston.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/recipe-after-eight-chocolate-brownies/
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Thank you for the link, I’m curious to see how you have done this …
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