Nigella's Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins

I have been looking for an easy and yummy muffins recipe for quite some time. I am a newbie in baking and I need easy but yummy one, so I can bake some for my little girl's birthday (and I did it!)

I blog hop a lot of baking blogs and I noticed that, Nigella's chocolate chocolate chip muffins are found in most of the baking blogs. Aha, I must try then too!

When I was going through the recipe and methods, I found that it is really simple and easy! What I love the most of this recipe is, electric mixer is not needed! Woohoo, less one thing to wash and clean. :p Simply mix the wet and dry ingredients, and mix them well. 

My first try on the Nigella's chocolate chocolate chip muffins. Hubby's colleague commented a bit dry (I guess I accidentally reduced the vegetable oil) and MIL commented not so fragrant (probably no butter involved in this recipe). The rest said good! 

I tried again a day before my little girl's birthday party at home, this round, tasted so much better. No dry and the texture is so right, fluffy and moist. :)

Guess the second round was better, as the muffins left no more after the party. :p

As it is super easy recipe, I baked them again for my little girl's birthday party celebration in school. Baked for the kids and the teachers. =)

So now, let's try to bake on your own! =)

Ingredients

250g plain flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

2 tbsp best quality cocoa powder

175g caster sugar 

150g chocolate chips (save 1/4 chips for sprinkling)

250ml milk

90ml vegetable oil (I used sunflower oil)

1 large egg

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 deg C.

2. Put the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, sugar and 3/4 of the chocolate chips into a large bowl and mix well.

3. Pour all the liquid ingredients to another large bowl and mix well.

4. Mix the dry and wet ingredients togather with slow and gentle strokes. Stop stirring once the last traces of flour disappear. Do not overmix. A lumpy batter will ensure the muffins stay moist and fluffy.

5. Spoon the batter into paper muffin cases.

6. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 chocolate chips on top and bake for 20 minutes or until the muffins are dark, risen and springy.

Enjoy, and tell me after you try! 

Happy baking! :)

Updates!

Hello! It takes me forever to update my little humble blog. :p I was so busy for the past two months. Busy in the preparation of moving to a new place. As we had limited funds, so, we tried to DIY wherever we can. After so much preparation and hardwork, we finally moved and settled in last weekend. In fact, I have so much things to share, so much things to blog. Allow me a little bit of time, I will update one by one before my memory fade. 

Just to share, a little thing I did for my new place. =)

Bento No# 131: French Toast Bento

This post has been sitting in the draft for quite some time and I only realised today. :(

It has been quite some time I did not make french toast. So, I made mini shape french toast end of last month. I checked back the time stamp, I made in the past 10 days. LOL. 

Since I making mini french toast, I packed few flower shape french toast to my girl's snack box. I don't know if she likes it as she usually rejects bread. End up, she only took one piece of mini flower french toast and the rest untouched. :( As usual, she will finished all her fruits. 

This is my mini flower french toast bento for that day. Also packed red dragon fruits for myself. Teehee. My favourite fruit. :)

I made heart shape french toast for hubby. Hehe. The extra eggs goes to his snack box as well. :)

Happy Birthday to Bento With Yenn

Yay! I am actually busy with work, but I am stealing a bit of time to blog. Just wanna to make a shout out. Bento With Yenn is one year old and therefore, an awesome deals are going on now, precisely, TODAY!!

Many ask, how do I celebrate my birthday then and what do you received as birthday gift? Honestly, when one grows older, especially with family and kids, I least expect something for birthday. Of course, I do hope for surprises, but nahhh...all of us are busy with work, new house stuff, etc. So, let it be. We have dinner date after work yesterday. That's all and I am happy. =) At least I had a quiet and peaceful dinner yesterday. What about birthday gift? I expect nothing, honestly. I know well that our bank accounts are almost emptied now because we are setting up our new home. He said, the HOME is my birthday gift this year. And, I accepted it. =) Our HOME is almost done but we can't move in until the chinese ghost month is over. I am OK with it, at least I have more time to clean, arrange and decor the house nicely and neatly before I move in. 

Happy birthday to me, and happy birthday to Bento With Yenn. =)

Bento No# 130: Tuna Pasta Bento

Malaysia and Singapore were shrouded by teribble haze since last week. It started in Singapore where the Air Pollutant Index (API) spiked up to 400 and followed by few cities in Johor, and last weekend, the haze came to Malacca. It was really bad during weekend, the API was shoot up to as high as 400 and the schools are ordered to close today. So, my little girl is staying at home with her grandma today. My eyes was dry and itchy for past few days and I have to rely on moisture eye drops all day. We wore mask when we are need to go out. I hope the haze will go away very soon. 

So, today I'm going to share with everyone, simple tuna bolognese pasta. 

I cooked hello kitty tuna bolognese pasta for myself. This bento was made last month. Also pan-fried prawn gyoza for myself. Extra golden kiwi in the small diablock lunch box. 

Hubby prefers spaghetti than farfalle or those hello kitty shape pasta. So, I cooked angel hair pasta for him. 

I am sharing where you can get similar items that I used in this post :)

BentoUSA

  

Bento With Yenn