One step up from your average muffin, these apple chocolate chip muffins are rather luxurious. They contain cream cheese which gives them a particularly soft crumb and a fabulous flavour. The apple and chocolate chips speak for themselves.
Dom has restricted this month’s Random Recipes to puddings, cakes and bakes. Hooray, that suits me just fine. I picked my book the usual way using Eat Your Books and got Seaweed and Eat It: a family foraging and cooking adventure by Fiona Houston and Xa Milne.
My mind went into a bit of a frenzy trying to imagine what seaweed and chocolate would taste like and in what form I could possibly put them together. I had a look through the book and really there wasn’t a great deal I felt I could make from it. Nothing that included chocolate anyway.
So, I cheated a little. Just a tiny bit. Before giving up on the book entirely, I thought I’d look to see if there was a suitable recipe I could adapt. And I found one – Yummy Muffins.
Apple Chocolate Chip Muffins
Unusually, the muffin recipe contains cream cheese and lemon juice. This makes them unlike anything I’ve made before, so I was particularly keen to try them. One of the ingredients was foraged berries. Well I didn’t have any of those to hand, but I did have plenty of windfall apples. So I used those instead.
And of course, I added a bit of chocolate. I made a few other changes too, as I do. The result was exceedingly good.
As we hadn’t been out of Cornwall during our holidays, I didn’t have anything particularly exotic to offer the team on my return from annual leave. So these apple chocolate chip muffins went back to work with me instead. They quickly disappeared and the feedback I got was very positive, so I can say these muffins were a success and I shall be making them again.
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Apple Chocolate Chip Muffins – The Recipe
Apple Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- 300 g wholemeal flour (I used spelt)
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 1 pinch sea salt
- 175 g golden caster sugar (I used cardamom sugar)
- 2 cooking apples peeled, cored and finely chopped – making around 200g in total
- 75 g milk chocolate chopped (I used 35% Green & Blacks)
- 90 g unsalted butter
- 90 g full fat cream cheese
- ½ lemon juiced
- 2 large eggs
- 125 ml milk
Instructions
- Sift the flour into a bowl together with the baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and salt.300 g wholemeal flour, 1½ tsp baking powder, ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), 1 pinch sea salt
- Stir in the sugar and add the chopped apples and chocolate. Stir well so the apples are coated in flour.175 g golden caster sugar, 2 cooking apples, 75 g milk chocolate
- Melt the butter in a pan over low heat.90 g unsalted butter
- In a separate bowl, beat the cream cheese with the lemon juice until well combined.90 g full fat cream cheese, ½ lemon
- Beat in the eggs, followed by the butter and then the milk.2 large eggs, 125 ml milk
- Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Mix gently until just combined.
- Spoon into 12 muffin cases and bake in the middle of a preheated oven at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4) for 25 minutes.
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Sharing
These apple chocolate chip muffins were specifically created for Dom’s Random Recipes over at Belleau Kitchen.
Foraged fruit is the main ingredient in the original muffin recipe. Well I had to forage the windfalls, so I reckon that counts. I’m thus submitting them to Credit Crunch Munch which is hosted this month by Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary.
Elizabeth S says
A delicious looking use for windfall apples! Thank you for sharing your recipe with the Credit Crunch Munch!
The Caked Crusader says
Handsome looking muffins – not sure I’ve ever had apple and chocolate together but sounds really good!
lawstudentscookbook says
Apple and chocolate sounds pretty much perfect together.
vohnmcg.com says
Mmm mmm – these sound delicious Choclette! I’m not a big fan of cream cheese in desserts but I think I’d like this one. Great recipe, thanks. Vohn x
Katie says
They look delicious! Apple and chocolate is not a combo you see very often but I love it. Great rustic appearance and perfect for the start of autumn
belleau kitchen says
how lovely to discover a muffin recipe that you’ve never made before… that’s why I love this challenge so much, you’d think you’d done it all and then bam!… they looks so knobbly and scrummy and perfectly autumnal too… love the addition of apples… thanks as always for entering x… now off to buy some green and blacks seaweed chocolate…
Hasna Hamza Layin says
Apple nd chocolate seems yumm.. never paired them together.
Camilla @FabFood4All says
A lovely Autumnal Muffin recipe which sounds scrummy:-) Thank you for entering Credit Crunch Munch with this thrifty recipe!
Choclette says
Thanks Camilla