Because single chocolate muffins just don’t sound as good!
I got the original recipe from an old copy of Sainsbury’s magazine. I used dark chocolate chunks, but you can use a mixture of dark and milk or just milk if you prefer. I also simplified the recipe slightly, just mixing all the chocolate into the other ingredients in one go, rather than adding pieces in an additional final step before putting the mixture in the oven – anything to make things easier!
Ingredients (12 – 15 muffins depending on how big you make them!):
- 375 g / 13 oz self-raising flour
- 25g / 1 oz cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 200 g / 7 oz chocolate, chopped into chunks (use you preferred type of chocolate and you can use chocolate chips if you can’t be bothered with the chopping!)
- 175 g / 6 oz caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 175 ml vegetable oil (you can use sunflower oil or corn oil, for example)
- 175 ml milk (I used full-fat milk, but you can use whatever you have in the fridge)
Method:
Put 12 paper muffin cases into you muffin tin, or use a silicone tray. Pre-heat your oven to 190 degrees C / 170 degrees C fan/ Gas Mark 5 / 375 degrees F.
I used both a 6-hole silicone tray and a 12-hole metal tray. In all, I got 15 muffins out of these ingredients, which I think is good going!
Chop your chocolate into small pieces.
Sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into a large bowl. Add the chocolate chunks and sugar to the bowl. In a large jug, lightly whisk together the eggs, oil and milk until combined.
Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix briefly using a large metal spoon until the ingredients are combined. Divide your double chocolate muffin mixture into the muffin trays.
Bake for 25 minutes until well-risen. You can check your double chocolate muffins are done by sticking a knife into the middle of one and seeing if it comes out clean.
Leave your muffins to cool in the tray for a few minutes and then move them to a wire rack to cool completely (or scoff them while hot, perhaps scaling your fingertips in the process… not that this is what I’d do).
As you can see, the ones in the cases are cute, colourful and easier to eat without utensils…
But the double chocolate muffins baked in the silicone tray without cases look GINORMOUS! And so are possibly more likely to amaze and impress your friends. If you plan to share them ๐
You could also serve them as desserts, particularly if you warm them up and add some ice cream or chocolate sauce on the side. Who would say “no” to this?
If you’re looking for other muffin recipes:
Foolproof mint chocolate muffins featuring Mint Aero.
Snickers muffins with two-colour buttercream swirl.
Yum x by like a billion
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They were very nice. Particularly when still warm from the oven! ๐
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YUM! I love all your recipes on here. I want to make these next week ๐
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Thank you! These are lovely and really easy to make. Particularly if you can easily buy chocolate chips to save yourself the work of chopping chocolate! ๐
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You can never have too much chocolate ๐ They look amazing, Claire.
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I agree 100%!!! ๐
Thank you ๐ They were lovely. I think I may have scoffed 2 while they were still warm from the oven!
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Donโt blame you, I would too!
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I want to make them right now but I’m on a diet until I’ve come back from my holidays. So, I’ll have to wait until I’m no longer dieting. Sad times ๐ฆ They look delicious though!
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They were very nice! ๐
If it helps, I worked out there are less than 300 calories a muffin… (if you get 15 out of the mixture). Don’t know if that could fit into the diet somewhere?
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I think I’d probably want to eat them all and that’s the problem! I’ll definitely make them when I come back from my hols though ๐
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Ohhhh… Yummy… I must satisfy myself with chocolate chip cookie instead…
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That is an excellent substitute ๐ And you can dunk those in tea!
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Ohhhh… I can never dunk! I’m one of the non dunkers!!!๐
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I admit, I only dunk chocolate digestives… just makes them better!
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I’ll definitely be adding these to my TBB (to be baked) list as my daughter loves chocolate muffins. And….I need to invest in one of those silicone trays – brilliant results ๐
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I’ve always been a bit skeptical about silicone trays. My sister gave me that muffin one though and I have to admit the muffins turned out brilliantly. I’m a convert! ๐
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I don’t know about you, but I would definitely scarf those straight out of the oven. Yummy.
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I did! I think I managed two of them ๐ They’re never better than when freshly baked (although I can always force myself to eat one a few hours later…) ๐
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Oh gosh this is right up my street! YUM!
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They were very nice ๐ I’m not usually a fan of dark chocolate, but in baking it always works really well and gives much more flavour than milk chocolate. Oh no, all this talking about muffins is making me hanker after more baked goods! I think the oven will be on later again!
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Mmm yes definitely! Haha ahh now I’m hungry too!!
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Double chocolate means yumm
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Exactly! ๐ Couldn’t have put it better!
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Just had chocolates muffins before seeing this post. Yum yum! ๐
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Great minds… great minds ๐
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These muffins are scrumptious
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Thank you!
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You have a new follower – muffins and me go hand in hand – Thanks so much. Love you recipe. Please hop over and see what’s cooking on my end of the world.
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Thank you! ๐
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Best reciepie of muffins
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Thank you ๐
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Looks delicious
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Thank you! They were very nice ๐
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