Thanks to recipes for fragrant muffins with cocoa, now every hostess can literally make delicious, chocolate treats in just 20-30 minutes. Appetizing portioned mini-cupcakes will be enjoyed by your guests and loved ones, having secured you the status of an excellent culinary specialist, a welcoming and hospitable hostess.
Cocoa Muffins - General Cooking Principles
A set of basic products for cocoa muffins standard:
• Eggs. Only fresh, preferably pre-warmed at room temperature.
• Granulated sugar.
• Flour. It needs to be sieved to saturate with oxygen, and then the muffins will turn out to be especially tender and airy.
• Milk. It is permissible to replace sour cream, fresh kefir, yogurt.
• Cocoa powder. So that the color of the muffins was richly chocolate, and the taste is appropriate, cocoa should be taken naturally without any additives.
• Baking powder: slaked soda or baking powder. This ingredient will lift the product, making them porous and incredibly delicate.
• Vegetable or butter.
Many additional products can be used as additional ingredients, depending on your preference. There are no restrictions, it all depends on your readiness for culinary experiments. It can be:
• Fruits: bananas, oranges, peaches, apples, pears, etc.
• Berries: blueberries, cherries or cherries, currants, strawberries, etc.
• Dried fruits: dried apricots, raisins.
• Nuts: walnuts, cashews, peanuts.
• Sunflower seeds.
• Coconut flakes.
• Chocolate in the form of pieces or fruits.
• And much more.
The dough is kneaded quite simply and quickly: in one bowl, the liquid components are whipped, in the other dry ingredients are mixed, after everything is combined and whipped with a whisk. It is not recommended to use a mixer for kneading, because this method of whipping aggravates the dough.
The dough is laid out in special small oiled forms (silicone, metal, paper) for no more than 2/3 of the volume - the dough rises during baking. After the form put in a preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Ready cocoa muffins are allowed to cool completely right in the molds, then carefully removed. With the exception of using paper forms - in this case, the muffins are served directly in them.
Decorate products only in a cooled form: powdered sugar, icing, chocolate or coconut flakes, confectionery powders.
1. Cocoa Muffins: A Simple Recipe
Products:
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 150 grams of flour;
• 150 ml of milk;
• egg;
• 60 grams of cocoa;
• 50 ml of sunflower oil;
• ten grams of baking powder;
• salt on the tip of the knife.
Cooking process:
1. Break the egg into a bowl, pour the vegetable oil. Beat with a fork or whisk.
2. Sift flour and cocoa into another bowl of a slightly larger size, pour baking powder with salt. To mix.
3. Combine the egg-oil mixture with the flour mass, pour in the milk. Stir until the lumps disappear.
4. Pour the dough into special molds, oiled.
5. Bake muffins at 200 degrees for no more than 20 minutes.
2. Cocoa Muffins: Berries Recipe
Products:
• egg;
• 40-50 grams of cocoa;
• a glass (about 200 ml) of milk;
• 10 grams of baking powder;
• 250 grams of flour;
• a glass of granulated sugar;
• a pinch of salt;
• a glass of any berries (preferably cherry pitted, currants, blueberries).
Cooking process:
1. Mix in a small container of sunflower oil with milk and egg.
2. Pour salt, sugar, sift cocoa, flour, baking powder into another container, add vanillin if desired. Mix.
3. Pour loose ingredients into a mixture of eggs, milk and butter. Beat with a whisk.
4. Put the berries in the dough, gently, trying not to crush, mix.
5. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
6. Lubricate the muffin pan with butter.
7. Pour dough into molds, bake for 15-18 minutes.
3. Cocoa Muffins: Banana Recipe
Products:
• 250 grams of flour;
• three tablespoons of cocoa;
• large banana;
• two pinches of baking powder;
• four tbsp. l condensed milk;
• 4 tbsp. l classic yogurt without additives;
• four eggs;
• three tbsp. l granulated sugar.
Cooking process:
1. Beat the eggs with salt and sugar with a mixer.
2. Add yogurt, condensed milk and beat again.
3. Add sifted flour, cocoa and baking powder to the mass. Stir first with a fork, after a whisk.
4. Peel and cut the banana into thin circles.
5. Lubricate the molds with oil, fill them with half of the prepared dough.
6. Put the banana circles on top.
7. Cover the bananas with a spoon of the remaining dough.
8. Bake at 200 degrees for 18-22 minutes.
9. Cool completely, only then remove from forms.
4. Cocoa muffins: a recipe with coconut and chocolate filling
Products:
• 320 grams of flour;
• a glass of milk;
• two eggs;
• two tsp baking powder;
• one hundred and fifty grams of sweet cream butter;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 55 g of cocoa powder;
• 4 tbsp. l coconut flakes;
• 200 grams of dark chocolate.
Cooking process:
1. Beat the eggs with sugar until tender with a pale light yellow color.
2. Pour in milk, put softened, sliced butter. Beat.
3. Pour cocoa, sifted flour, baking powder and coconut. Stir until the lumps disappear.
4. In greased tins, live two tablespoons of the dough, lay on top a piece of chocolate, cover with two more tablespoons of the dough.
5. Put the forms in the oven preheated to 210 degrees, bake for about 20 minutes.
5. Cocoa Muffins: Oranges Recipe
Products:
• a pound of flour;
• 200 grams of sour cream;
• sweet big orange;
• three eggs;
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 50 grams of dark chocolate;
• 5 tablespoons cocoa;
• 46 ml of sunflower oil.
Cooking process:
1. In a small bowl, beat the eggs with sugar.
2. Add sour cream and vegetable oil, whisk again.
3. Rinse the orange thoroughly, rinse with boiling water and dry.
4. Grate the zest on a fine grater, transfer to an egg-sour cream mass.
5. Peel the pulp of an orange from a white film, divide into slices, cut into small cubes.
6. Add baking powder, flour, cocoa powder to the dough. Mix with a whisk.
7. Live in an almost ready dough grated with fine chips, mix.
8. Put on the bottom of the greased form on a spoonful of dough, lay on top a few pieces of orange, pour the remaining dough on 2/3 of the volume of molds.
9. Bake muffins for 25 minutes at 175 degrees.
6. Cocoa Muffins: Raisin Recipe
Products:
• 40 g of cocoa;
• a glass of flour;
• a glass of sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l vegetable oil;
• half a glass of milk;
• egg;
• 1/2 tsp soda (extinguish);
• half a glass of dark raisins.
Cooking method:
1. Mix in a large bowl of cocoa with flour.
2. In another container, beat slightly warmed milk with eggs, sunflower oil, sugar and slaked soda.
3. Rinse the raisins, pour boiling water for 10 minutes, rinse and dry, laying on a towel.
4. Mix the raisins with the dough.
5. Put the dough for muffins in oiled forms, set in an oven preheated to 160 degrees for 20 minutes.
6. Cool the finished muffins and garnish with icing sugar and crumbs of chocolate or nuts.
7. Cocoa muffins: recipe with cottage cheese and candied fruit
Products:
• 200 grams of flour;
• 150 grams of sour cream;
• two eggs;
• 205 grams of cottage cheese;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 60 grams of candied fruits;
• 3 tbsp. l cocoa.
Cooking process:
1. Put the cottage cheese in a bowl, grind until smooth.
2. Add sugar, eggs, sour cream. Stir first with a fork, then gently beat with a whisk.
3. Add sifted flour, baking powder, cocoa, mix.
4. Introduce candied fruit, mix again.
5. Transfer the dough with a spoon into the greased tins, bake at 180 degrees 25 minutes.
8. Cocoa muffins: a recipe for condensed milk with walnuts
Products:
• 180 grams of flour;
• 100 grams of condensed milk;
• one third tsp vanilla
• half a tablespoon baking powder;
• two eggs;
• two large spoons of cocoa;
• 60 grams of butter;
• two handfuls of chopped nuts.
Cooking process:
1. Mix flour with cocoa, vanilla and baking powder. Sift the mass.
2. Beat eggs until smooth, add condensed milk, mix.
3. Melt the oil, cool, introduce into the condensed mixture.
4. Combine the flour with condensed milk, mix.
5. Put a little nut crumbs on the bottom of the greased forms, put a spoonful of dough on top, add some more nuts and again the dough.
6. Bake for 23-25 minutes in a preheated oven to 190 degrees.
Cocoa Muffins - Tips and Tricks
• If you add berries to the dough, you must first roll them lightly in the starch to prevent them from spreading.
• You can add fruit to the dough in a pureed form or by cutting them into small pieces.
• If you add dried fruits to the dough, do not forget to soak them first and then dry them.
• If you decide to cook muffins on cottage cheese dough, choose cottage cheese not grainy, it is best to take in briquettes, but it is advisable to grind it at least once through a sieve.
• Put the dough in a necessarily oiled form so that the muffins do not stick and have a neat appetizing appearance.
• Muffins are also good because, despite the short shelf life under normal conditions (about three days), they can be prepared for the future - they perfectly retain their taste quality at low temperature. Then the remaining baking should be completely cooled, wrapped in cling film and put in the freezer. You can get muffins at any suitable moment, you just have to defrost cupcakes at room temperature or in a microwave oven in the appropriate mode.
