Double Chocolate Muffins

Finally, after many failed muffins I force-fed my work mates and Hendra, I made the one people praised. One of my friend actually thought that this was sellable. I thought she was exaggerating, but I really appreciated the comments, I almost cried. There's a lady in my office who actually asked for the recipe!! Me. Being asked for a recipe! 

But I think this muffins didn't reach the muffins standard I've been striving for. Some of the best muffins I've tried are banana and blueberry muffins from BreadTalk and mostly anything Mmmarvelous Mmmuffins has (Sadly, they closed the shop years ago)

So, yes, the Muffins Diary is still going ! :)

Ping Me!

When I googled some recipes for dessert,  I always wanted to try something with berries. And it's not exactly dessert, but muffins are my favorite cake. So when Sasa, my cooking companion / sister, suggested to make something out of blackberry we bought, I thought : I want muffins! 

You know that those links that you can click on the left side of this post have some amazing recipes for muffins, but nothing is quite..basic and I needed something that just for the beginners, kinda muffin for idiots. I found some good sites that have tutorial in baking muffin : Culinary Arts in About.Com  (the basic plain muffin) and also the blueberry muffin (from the same site). I also found video for how to make muffin from Videojug then after you carefully read and watch those site, open this for side tips in making the perfect muffins from Simplebites.net. 

I'm so proud of myself!! This was my first encounter with baking powder and I kinda nailed it. By nail it I mean I successfully made my muffins fluffy!

Oops moment :

1. I was being impatient and poured the cold milk into the warm liquid butter. It caused the mixture to glob, I put the mixture back to microwave and everything was okay then.

2. I took the batter from the oven too soon. Well, I did inserted a toothpick to the center of it and it came out clean, but maybe I should wait 10 more minutes before turned the oven off.

3. My sister accidentally pour sugar when it supposed to be salt. LOL. But it's only a pinch, so it was okay.

I will try to make another, for sure! We had a really good time in the kitchen. :)