Chocolate, Chocolate Chip Muffins
Created by elsie on January 12, 2012
- Servings: 6
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 25m
- Recipe #4020
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup shortening (Crisco)
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa, unsweetened
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips, mini
- 1 teaspoon flour
- Mini chocolate chips for sprinkling
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking cocoa powder
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
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Step 2: Grease and flour a jumbo muffin pan (6 muffins), or add extra-large paper liners to pan.
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Step 3: In a mixing bowl, beat Crisco and sugar until fluffy.
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Step 4: Beat in the egg and vanilla.
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Step 5: Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt into the butter-sugar mixture, and mix on low speed, while adding the milk. Mix thoroughly.
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Step 6: In a small bowl, add the teaspoon of flour and toss with the chocolate chips to coat; fold into the muffin batter mixture.
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Step 7: Fill the 6 extra-large muffin cups equally. Sprinkle a few mini chocolate chips over the tops of muffin batter.
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Step 8: Bake for 25 minutes.
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Step 9: Remove from oven and cool completely on wire racks. (Optional) Mix together cocoa and powder sugar and sift mixture over muffins after cool, if desired.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (111.5 g)
- Calories 463.7
- Total Fat - 30.4 g
- Saturated Fat - 8.3 g
- Cholesterol - 29.5 mg
- Sodium - 133.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 45.7 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 28 g
- Protein - 4.7 g
- Calcium - 38.6 mg
- Iron - 1.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg