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This muffin recipe was created by Joanne Chang who owns a bakery/café in Boston. It’s from the Feb/March 2006 issue of Fine Cooking Magazine, and it got very good ratings on the magazine’s bulletin board. I loved these muffins, but they did not get a thumbs up from my 5 year old who …
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It’s a dark and rainy day here, so I decided to do something completely out of character – bake cookies! I should probably be doing housework, but since I dislike it intensely and can only do it in spurts, I figured making a recipe with passive chilling time would be okay. This recipe …
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I thought rather then end my day of baking in a down cycle, I’d take one more crack at a recipe. This one worked! I thought it up when I was taking a long, much needed walk. This recipe evolved from the King Arthur recipe. Instead of cocoa, I used a …
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The carrot cake, which I’m keeping for myself and will probably freeze, is from Cooking Light magazine. I usually prefer very rich carrot cakes made with as much vegetable oil as possible, so I was skeptical about this one. The good news is it was very moist, had a great texture from the …
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Moving on to the third chocolate muffin – Diana’s Double Chocolate Muffins from Diana’s Desserts. As expected, these were kind of cupcake-like. They were sweeter and a bit richer than Nigella’s and could be eaten for both breakfast and dessert. They also rose very nicely and had a great texture. Diana’s muffins …
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Despite my earlier hesitancy towards Nigella’s chocolate muffins, I went ahead and baked a batch this morning. While I worried that the 2 tablespoons of cocoa seemed paltry and the lack of butter meant lack of flavor, the straightforwardness of the recipe doubled with the fact that I had exactly two tablespoons of Ghirardelli …
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Three weeks ago I thought chocolate muffins were a silly excuse to call cupcakes muffins so that you could eat them for breakfast and not feel guilty. Eating a chocolate muffin in London, in the afternoon no less, changed my mind. While I wouldn’t call them healthy, chocolate muffins are different than cupcakes …
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It’s almost noon and I haven’t actually baked anything. I am however, obsessed with baking a batch of chocolate muffins. The problem is, it’s Friday and the other two members of my family could not care less about chocolate muffins. I had the best ever chocolate muffin in London, but neither my husband nor daughter [...]
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