A salvation for baking-beginners and unannounced guests!

I’m almost one hundred sure that at least once in your life, you faced a problem: „What should I prepare for my guests”. For example: they called me all of sudden and what’s more, they are on the way. There is not enough time to prepare something extraordinary. Baking? I don’t have enough time; collecting all ingredients will take forever. But there is a salvation – my favourite muffins, which are easy to prepare and not time-consuming at all.

Ingredients:
150g butter
150g chocolate (white, dark, dessert or milk chocolate)
300g flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
2 sp cocoa
1 sp chicory coffee
1 glass of sugar
1 sp vanilla sugar or 2 tsp vanilla extract
2 big eggs
180 ml milk

Preparation:

1. Heat oven to 180 C. Line a muffin tray with paper muffin cases (it’s a recipe for 12 muffins). Melt butter and cool down. Chocolate cut into small pieces.

2. Prepare a bowl. Sift in the flour, soda, baking powder, cocoa and chicory coffee. Then, sift all ingredients once again, to make sure that it’s perfectly mixed. Add sugar and vanilla sugar. Mix all and set it aside.

3. In another bowl beat lightly with a handheld electric mixer eggs with milk and vanilla extract (if you haven’t used vanilla sugar).

4. Now bring together (but gently!) content of the „crumbly” bowl with the „mass egg” bowl. Blend it softly a few times (I would recommend a typical spoon). Add melted butter and chopped chocolate. Stir briefly (3-5 spoon moves). Be careful not to over-mix it as this might make the muffins tough. The dough should have been a bit lumpy, but the raw flour shouldn’t be visible.

5. Fill muffin cases two-thirds full and bake for 25 minutes, until risen, firm to the touch and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean. Leave the muffins in the tin to cool for a few minutes and transfer to a rack to cool completely.

Voilà!