Muffin Mayhem! (Part 2)

Muffin Mayhem! (Chocolate Edition)

So, after I made my berry muffins, I made some chocolate muffins too…

Let me say this as a disclaimer, they were good, but not nearly chocolatey enough. You definitely need to add chocolate chips to the batter (I regrettably did not do this) and then they will be absolutely perfect!

Okay, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s begin!

Preheat oven to 345 (no berries to let sweat here)

And stir together the following

(yes, that is a very large bag of baking soda… we love both Costco and baking soda a whole heck of a lot)

3 Cups Flour

2 Tsp. Baking Soda

1/4 Tsp. Salt

1 Cup + 2 Tbsp. packed brown sugar

1/2 cup unsweet cocoa powder

Then, in a separate bowl, stir these together

1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil

1/2 Soy vanilla yogurt (I just used a whole carton)

2 Cup Almond Milk (or your other favorite milk alternative)

2 Tsp. Red Wine Vinegar

1 Tsp. Vanilla Extract

I’ve never used vinegar in baking before, and definitely not one that is red, so I was pretty skeptical. But I do think it made the muffin moister, and didn’t taste odd at all

After all that is combined, gently fold in the dry ingredients, and in this case, you do need to make sure not to over mix! You want to look slightly fluffy and airy… these are girly muffins :)

Grease your muffins pans and fill about 1/2 way full

Then, stir these together

Aprox. 3 Tbs vegan cream cheese (that’s all I had left over from the cinnamon rolls, but I will use more next time, since this was the best part of the muffin)

2 tsp unsweet cocoa

1 tsp powdered sugar

You want it to all be combined, like this

I also drizzled a little bit of vegan chocolate sauce on my half filled muffins, but if you cant find anything like that don’t worry (though you could just melt some chips)

Then scoop the cream cheese mixture into each pan, and cover with the remaining batter

Now you want to top with choco-choco-chips!

I have been conditioned all my life to think that these were the only chips worthy of consumption either by themselves, or through baking, and I am ever so happy to discover that they are animal friendly :)

Put as many or as few as you’d like

And press them lovingly into the batter slightly

(remember that when you do this, you will have added about a whole bag to the batter already…. Right?)

Then pop-em in the oven for about 20-25 minutes and viola! Chocolate muffins!

Like I said, they were good, the top part was the best best best, since the cream cheese stuff rose to the top and it was ever so delicious. The rest of the muffin was moist and nice, but bland and not chocolatey enough, it definitely needed some chips mixed in…

To eat mine, I drizzled some more of my chocolate sauce over it; a girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do to get her fix