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Chocolate Muffins! - Happy Easter!

By: Niamh, 24 April 2011

Happy Easter to all our amazing members, readers and fans!

We hope the Easter Bunny has been good to you… Beautycouture.ie HQ certainly cannot wait to tuck into some chocolate. And if you don’t fancy eating just ester eggs, here’s Magenta de la Cruz’s fab chocolate Easter muffins recipe! De-lic-ious!

 

Magenta says -

Easter is here and with it comes chocolate again! For many who have given up sweet things for lent, Easter Sunday can be a day of excess! I love theses Easter muffins because unlike a cake you can sort of ration the amount young kids (or even adults) end up eating. They are velvety, rich, moist and super chocolaty so don’t OD on them. Also great for using in your Easter Egg hunts too instead of plain old chocolate eggs.

 

Muffins

250g Unsalted butter

250g Self raising flour

300g Golden caster sugar

3 Heaped tbs cocoa

Pinch of baking powder

200ml Cola drink

75 ml Milk

2 Eggs

1 Tsp vanilla extract

 

Icing

250g Milk chocolate

159 ml Double Cream

Knob of unsalted Butter

Chocolate mini eggs to decorate

Preheat the oven to 180°C fan / 170°C / 350°F / Gas mark 4

Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa and baking powder into a large bowl.

Melt the butter and cola drink together in a saucepan over a gentle heat.

Mix the eggs, milk and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl.

Combine all the liquids together and then mix with the dry ingredients

The batter will be runny when it is mixed. Line a baking tray with large muffin cases and pour the mixture into each one.

Bake in the oven for 20-25 mins. Remove and allow to cool

For the Icing

Chop the chocolate into small pieces

Heat the cream in the microwave until bubbling and pour on the chocolate with the knob of butter and stir in a bowl until the chocolate has melted.

Allow to cool and then place in a fridge until its ready to use.

Decorate each muffin with icing and some chocolate mini eggs if desired!


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