Easter Holidays and Montse's Grown-Up Double Chocolate Muffins.

 

Easter holidays felt a bit more like Christmas than Spring, what with snow and surprise gifts, and parcels that arrived. 'A' bought me a lovely spring cotton and silk dress, and my custom made skirt arrived  from an Etsy shop in Greece. It was all packed up in lovely tissue paper and cute labels. It fits perfectly and came much faster than I could ever have hoped. In plenty of time for a secret gig and exhibition preview. I highly recommend the Etsy shop Karmologyclinic, the owner Cristina is so helpful and an great seamstress. And did you see her work room. It's like something out of Mama Mia. I'm tempted to order a tartan one for winter...Do you think it might be a bit too much? But it would be so cool for Christmas day... 

It felt like Christmas to me, but the birds that wake us up at dawn, and the one sitting on the nest in the tree outside our bedroom window know it's spring. The sun was shining and  the snow melted, so we guzzled toasted hot-cross buns for breakfast then muffled up and went for a walk in the woods. We found our tree, and two new dens.

Home for easy Pasta Puttanesca supper, The Delightful Miss Dahl's recipe. Easter Sunday I cooked a big family roast chicken dinner with this sage and onion stuffing but added lots of fresh juice and zest of lemon. It's so easy to make and a million times better than any packet made version.


After supper, new BBC drama The Village and chocolate muffins. I used a recipe shared by my lovely new Spanish blogger friend Montse. These are deliciously rich and moist, made with good cocoa and dark chocolate chips. They taste so much more grown-up than the Mary Berry chocolate marble cake recipe that I'm asked to make most weeks. That's a lovely moist recipe too but with fudgy chocolate icing, that's drizzled with lots of melted white chocolate...a little too sweet for my tooth. 

I translated Montse's recipe as she recommended using an online translator. Here it is if you'd like to try too...

"

RECIPE:

Ingredients:

-300 Gr. of flour confectionery

-175 Gr. Brown sugar

-50 Gr. of pure cocoa powder

-150 Gr. of butter

-2 eggs

-170 ml. of milk

-1/2 tsp of baking powder

-1/2 teaspoon of baking soda

-150 Gr. of chocolate chips

Elaboration:

Preheat the oven to 200 ° C.

Mix the flour, cocoa, sugar, yeast and baking, book.

Mix the eggs with the milk, melted butter, and add to the dry ingredients and Add chocolate chips.

Spread batter into molds (completing only 3/4 parts).

Bake 15 to 20 minutes.

Let cool on a wire rack.

RECIPE:

Ingredients:

-300 Grams of flour pastry

- 175 Gr sugar moreno

-50 Grams of pure cocoa powder

-150 Grams of butter

-2 Eggs

-170 ml of milk

-1/2 Teaspoon of baking powder

-1/2 Teaspoon of bicarbonate

-150 Gr. chocolate chip

Elaboration:

Preheat the oven to 200 °C.

Mix the flour, cocoa, sugar, yeast and baking soda, book.

Mix the eggs with the milk and melted butter and incorporate to the dry ingredients and add the chocolate chip.

Divide the dough into the molds ( fill only 3/4 parties) .

Bake 15 to 20 minutes.

Allow to cool on a rack. "

Thank you Montse for sharing your recipe. It's been so nice to meet you...I love that way that the language of food brings people together...

PS I really recommend that you  all try making them too....you can see Montse's cup cakes here if you like. They look so much neater than mine but I'm sure they all taste as good as each other.

...you know what I always say...less is more, unless it's chocolate...

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