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Chocolate Muffins

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour (Polish type 500 or U.S. All-Purpose)
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup cane sugar
  • 6 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 6 tbsp cocoa powder
  • ¾ cup greek yogurt
  • cup milk (whole or 2%)
  • 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips or chunks
  • tbsp hot water
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • ½ tsp lemon zest
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp salt

Instructions

  1. In a small pot, melt the butter over low heat. Avoid burning it.

    butter
  2. Set the melted butter aside to cool off.

    melted butter
  3. Preheat the oven to 350° Fahrenheit or 180° Celsius.

  4. In the meantime, using a whisk, mix the eggs, water, brown sugar, and cane sugar together.

    sugar and eggs
  5. Mix in the salt and whisk some more.

    mix
  6. Add vanilla, nutmeg, and lemon zest, and continue whisking the ingredients.

    vanilla and mixed eggs
  7. While mixing the wet ingredients together, slowly pour in the melted butter.

    add melted butter
  8. Add yoghurt and milk, and give it a stir.

    add yoghurt
  9. In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and using a spoon, mix them well together.

    flour and baking powder
  10. Add the cocoa powder, and continue mixing.

    add cocoa powder
  11. Combine the wet and dry ingredients by slowly adding the mixed flour with cocoa powder to the earlier mixed wet ingredients while gently stirring.

    Muffin batter
  12. Add the chocolate chips and combine them with the muffin batter.

    chocolate chips
  13. You can leave about ¼ cup of chocolate chips to place on top of the muffins.

  14. Line a muffin pan with baking paper cups.

    muffin pan
  15. Pour about two scoops of the muffin batter into each cup. Just slightly beneath the rim, and sprinkle the extra chocolate chips on top.

  16. Bake for about 22 - 25 minutes.

    baked muffins