Double Chocolate Chip Muffins: Recipe

Welcome to Food Friday! Last week, I promised that I'd be back this week with another muffin recipe... so here it is!

These double chocolate chip muffins are JUST LIKE the ones you find at the grocery store... you know, the really big, dense muffins that feel more like cupcakes but you call them muffins to justify eating so many? Yep, those.

I have been obsessed with all things chocolate lately. Maybe it's the baby, but in reality, I've always loved chocolate. I'm just okaying it a bit more now because I can blame it on the little life inside me! ;-) 

Seriously, though... these are great. I am so glad I finally have a recipe to make these too. I know EXACTLY what goes into them, so I don't have to worry about the ones from the store anymore... because let's be honest: I bought those. Not frequently, but I did. Never again. These are so alike and not difficult at all, so I'll be making them from now on. I may or may not have individually wrapped them and popped them in the freezer so I can that have them whenever I want. Yep. 

Double Chocolate Chip Muffins

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup butter, softened

• 1 cup sugar

• 2 tsp vanilla extract

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 2/3 cup cocoa powder

• 1/2 tsp salt

• 2 eggs

• • 3/4 cup milk

• 1/3 cup sour cream

• 2 cups flour

• 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (I use the mini ones)

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350º, and line a muffin pan with 12 liners. 

2. Cream together the butter, sugar, vanilla, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt until light and fluffy.

3. Add the eggs one at a time, beating with each new addition.

4. Add the milk and sour cream.

5. Add the flour and chocolate chips.

6. Mix until ingredients just combined.

7. Divide batter between 12 muffin liners. *Batter will be VERY sticky.

8. Bake for 25-27 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 

Are you a chocoholic?

What is your favorite chocolate dessert?

    

Strawberry Banana Muffins: Recipe

It's another Food Friday already - crazy, right? This year is just passing too quickly.

Today's recipe is brought to you by a post I made last week that included a couple pictures of muffins... and I was so rude to not even share the recipes! Oops! I'll share one today and another one next Friday... mostly out of guilt. And because they're delicious.

Today, you get strawberry banana muffins. They're yummy and made with fresh fruit... so you don't have to feel AS guilty about them.

Throughout all of the snow we've had in Dayton this year, our across the street neighbor has consistently cleared off our driveway for us each and every time with his snow blower. I knew I wanted to do something kind for him, so I rummaged through my pantry, refrigerator, and fruit stash and decided these would be the best. 

I'm so glad we made them (and kept a few for ourselves)! These are definitely repeat muffins. I'll be making a new batch soon just because they're so yummy. 

Strawberry Banana Muffins

DRY INGREDIENTS

• 1 3/4 cups flour

• 2/3 cup sugar

• 2 tsp baking powder

• 1/2 tsp baking soda

•  1/4 tsp salt

WET INGREDIENTS

• 2 ripe bananas, cut into small chunks

• 1/2 cup softened butter

• 2 tbsp milk

• 2 eggs

• 8 strawberries, cut into small pieces

DIRECTIONS

1. Mix dry ingredients together in a mixer.

2. Mix wet ingredients in to dry ingredients, and mix until well combined,

3. Bake at 400º for 20 minutes.

*Makes 12 muffins

Do you like muffins?

What's your favorite kind?

    

Our Life Outside of Baby

With all of the baby stuff happening lately, it's tough to remember that I have a life outside of that too. It seems like it's all people want to talk about. That said, Dan and I have had a lot of other things going on in our lives too - like snow, animals, and food.

Okay, I guess that stuff isn't overly exciting, but I'm going to take a few minutes to appreciate the little things in our lives before things change drastically in a few months.

We have had lots of snow... on several separate days... that Smudge and Gilligan have both participated in. (Stormy is smart and watched the boys freeze their tails off from the window).

We have had lots of kitty and puppy snuggles around here...

We celebrated Valentine's Day and our six year anniversary...

We made muffins (twice), smoothies (because I'm craving fruit like crazy), and iced (decaf) coffee because, well, it's all I want...

And, even though this post is supposed to be about what we've been up to OTHER than Baby Cookie, I just couldn't resist the cutest little airplane outfit in history... and laughed so hard when we caught BOTH cats napping in the baby swing on separate occasions. They're going to in for a rude awakening come September...

See? Life isn't TOO exciting over here lately, but we're loving it anyway! We are hoping to travel soon while Dan is on his week and a half break from classes, so here's to crossing our fingers and toes for just the right Space A flight! 

What have you been up to lately?