These chocolate strawberry muffins mix two of our favourite issues: contemporary strawberries and chocolate! These outrageously scrumptious chocolate muffins are filled with strawberries and topped with a scrumptious chocolate drizzle.
I’m torn between calling these muffins a snack or dessert! They’re gentle and tender and style like wealthy chocolate cake in muffin kind. Impressed by chocolate lined strawberries, we add numerous contemporary strawberries to the batter and drizzle melted chocolate on prime.
They’re one in every of our most decadent muffin recipes, for positive! When you love these, additionally, you will love our strawberry muffins or these strawberry yogurt muffins. I’m additionally keen on this chocolate chip muffin recipe!
Key Components
- Strawberries: Use candy, flavorful, contemporary strawberries for the perfect muffins. When you solely have frozen strawberries, thaw and drain them first. Their texture will probably be softer, so they might break aside barely when blended into the batter.
- Cocoa Powder: I like to recommend utilizing pure unsweetened cocoa powder for this recipe. Dutch-processed cocoa powder gained’t react with the baking soda, important for serving to the muffins rise. My favourite manufacturers embrace Ghirardelli, Hershey’s, or Guittard if you happen to really feel fancy!
- Flour: I take advantage of all-purpose flour on this recipe, however you’ll be able to simply substitute entire wheat flour, spelt flour, and even an all-purpose gluten-free mix.
- Sugar: Granulated sugar retains these muffins gentle and ethereal.
- Baking Powder and Baking Soda: The key for gentle and ethereal chocolate muffins. Use just lately bought double-acting baking powder (it lasts about 3 months), and use aluminum-free in case you are delicate to the style.
- Butter: I often name for oil in my muffin recipes, however for these chocolate muffins, I choose butter. Use unsalted or salted with rather less salt added to the batter.
- Egg and Yogurt: These add to our muffin’s construction, and the yogurt retains them good and moist. Plain yogurt is ideal.
- Vanilla and Salt: These make our muffins style wonderful and convey out the chocolate taste of our cocoa.
- Chocolate: I soften some chocolate and drizzle it over the baked muffins. It’s non-compulsory, however so good!
Tips on how to Make Strawberry Chocolate Muffins
These muffins are simple! Step one is blooming your cocoa powder. Have you ever ever heard of it? Sounds humorous, proper? It’s truly actually cool. Combining cocoa powder with a scorching liquid helps to “bloom” the cocoa, making the cocoa powder style much more decadent and chocolaty than if you happen to had been including cocoa to the dry elements.
It’s actually widespread to see cocoa powder blended with scorching liquid in chocolate recipes like we do for these fudgy brownies or this chocolate cake. On this muffin recipe, we combine heat butter into the cocoa powder and sugar.
From there, you’ll combine the remaining elements till they’re mixed. When you’ve been following our recipes for some time, you’re in all probability uninterested in us telling you to not over-mix with regards to muffins (this additionally applies to waffles, pancakes, and fast bread).
When combining the moist and dry elements, be light and fold the dry elements into the moist. All you want to do is stir gently till any streaks of flour disappear and the batter is clean. There’s no must beat the batter or use an electrical mixer. Over-mixing makes muffins heavy.
The muffins bake for 15 to twenty minutes, then we take them out, allow them to cool, and drizzle a bit melted chocolate on prime. The chocolate ultimately companies and makes a pleasant prime for the muffins. You may add chocolate chips to the batter, however we love leaving the within of the muffins for the strawberries.
Strawberry Chocolate Muffins
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These strawberry chocolate muffins are filled with strawberries and topped with a scrumptious chocolate drizzle. You will need to chop the strawberries small; in any other case, they are going to fall to the underside of the muffin. Tossing the chopped strawberries with a teaspoon of sugar additionally brings out a few of their sweetness and makes them style extra like a strawberry. When you use completely ripe berries, tossing with the sugar is pointless. We drizzle the tops of every baked muffin with darkish chocolate, however any chocolate will do. Use what you’re keen on (white chocolate can be wonderful, too!).
Makes 12 muffins
You Will Want
6 ounces strawberries, chopped small (about 1 cup)
1 ½ cups (195g) all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon wonderful sea salt
8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter
1/3 cup (25g) unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cup (150g) sugar, plus 2 teaspoons for tops and berries, see ideas
1 giant egg
1 cup (250g) plain yogurt, see ideas
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
1 ½ ounces chocolate for drizzling on prime
Instructions
1Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Line 12 standard-size muffin cups with paper liners.
2Combine the chopped strawberries with a teaspoon of sugar in a small bowl, then put aside.
3Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
4In one other bowl, whisk the cocoa powder and sugar collectively. Soften the butter, after which whereas it’s nonetheless heat, whisk it into the cocoa powder and sugar till blended, and the combination has cooled barely.
5Add the egg, yogurt, and vanilla. Whisk till clean.
6Change to a big rubber spatula. Scrape the perimeters and backside of the bowl, then add the dry elements in 3 elements, stirring gently till they disappear and the batter is clean.
7Fold within the strawberries.
8Divide the batter between muffin cups (the batter will come near the tops of the paper liners). Sprinkle a bit sugar on prime of every muffin.
9Bake muffins for 15 to twenty minutes or till the tops are not moist and a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out with crumbs, not moist batter. Switch to a cooling rack.
10When the muffins are largely cool, soften the chocolate. Since it’s such a small quantity, utilizing a microwave is finest. Add chocolate to a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 10 seconds, stir, then microwave for an additional 10 seconds. Repeat this course of till the chocolate has melted. Drizzle the melted chocolate over the muffins.
Adam and Joanne’s Ideas
- Including/decreasing the sugar: 3/4 cups of sugar is good for us, for barely sweeter muffins, use 1 cup of sugar within the batter. To scale back the sugar, select yogurt with the bottom sugar content material and think about decreasing the sugar known as for within the recipe by 3 to 4 tablespoons.
- What yogurt to make use of: For essentially the most tender muffins use plain full-fat yogurt. Low-fat or 0% fats yogurt might be substituted, the muffins will simply be rather less tender. When you use Greek yogurt, chances are you’ll discover that you want to add an additional splash of liquid since it’s thicker than common yogurt (milk and even water will do). Lastly, regulate the sugar content material of the yogurt you employ. Plain ought to have the bottom sugar content material, whereas a vanilla flavored yogurt may have far more sugar (making the muffins extra candy).
- Storing: Place them in a plastic bag, seal, and retailer at room temperature for two to three days. To freeze, wrap them tightly in aluminum foil or place them in freezer luggage. Freeze for as much as 3 months.
- The vitamin info offered under are estimates.
Vitamin Per Serving
Serving Dimension
1 muffin
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Energy
221
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Protein
4 g
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Carbohydrate
30 g
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Dietary Fiber
2 g
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Complete Sugars
16 g
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Complete Fats
10 g
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Saturated Fats
6 g
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Ldl cholesterol
39 mg
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Sodium
160 mg
