Spiced choco chip muffin

Spiced choco chip muffin © dan and tuesday

This muffin recipe puts a twist on the regular choco chip muffin by adding spices. I used a spice I found in the Sunday Riverside market in Cardiff. It’s called Victorian cake spice. I’m not really sure what’s in it – if you know, feel free to enlighten us! But it smells of Christmas, of cinnamon and nutmeg!

Victorian cake spice © dan and tueday

I’ve made this a few times now – to share at work, to give us a present for Kielo, and, now, for our friends Helen and Phil.

You need:

• 100 g softened unsalted butter
• 100 g caster sugar
• 100 g dark muscovado sugar
• 5 tbsp milk
• 150 ml sour cream
• 2 free-range eggs
• 250 g plain flour
• 1 tsp mixed spice
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 200 g dark chocolate chips

dark chocolate chips © dan and tuesday

Tools

• 12-cup muffin tray, lined with muffin cases
• mixing bowls
• handheld mixer
• pre-heated oven at 190˚C

What to do:

1. Mix butter and sugars in a bowl and mix well.
2. Beat in eggs.
3. Add milk and cream and mix until everything is thoroughly mixed.
4. In another bowl, sift flour, spice, bicarbonate of soda, and cocoa powder.
5. Mix the wet and dry mixture very well. I just use a spoon at this stage and not the handmixer.
   

   making muffins © dan and tuesday

6. Add the chocolate chips. Mix well, agin with a spoon.
7. Spoon mixture on the muffin cases.
8. Bake for about 28 – 30 mins then take out from the oven and let it  cool in the tray for about 10 mins. Transfer to a wire rack to cool properly.

spiced choco chip muffin © dan and tuesday

Maybe this is more of a Christmas muffin… but so far no one has objected to a little taste of Christmas in the summer.