Hello everyone,
A while ago, I posted a banana walnuts muffin recipe and promised to cook more muffins and to experience some new blends. Today is not a very daring one but who cares? The most important is how good it tastes and I am pretty sure that anyone loving chocolate will find it awesome.
When I started to live in Indonesia, I renounced to cook with chocolate. The reason is that even if the country is drowning in cocoa beans, it is actually quite hard to find a decent chocolate to bake. So I gave up on chocolate... for a few months (I am weak willed) ;-p. Then I went to a specialized shop (the only one in my city) which was selling baking ingredients... I asked for some crème fraiche for my wife and some pearled sugar to use in my waffles. They had neither (surprise...) my wife asked if they had any chocolate for baking (at this point I already had lost all hopes of finding any decent chocolate, so I didn't bother asking), as they did have chocolate for baking, we bought one bar (because my wife decided to do so) and, we I cooked with this chocolate, I got my hopes up (a bit).
Chocolate based recipes usually require a good quality of chocolate to taste good, in France I always went for "chocolat noir à patisser Nestlé" which was easy to find and quite good. Here, it took a few month and a specialized shop to finally get my hands on baking dark chocolate but I finally did it, and this recipe is the first one I did with this chocolate.
An all time favorite that does great with a hot cup of tea.
When I started to live in Indonesia, I renounced to cook with chocolate. The reason is that even if the country is drowning in cocoa beans, it is actually quite hard to find a decent chocolate to bake. So I gave up on chocolate... for a few months (I am weak willed) ;-p. Then I went to a specialized shop (the only one in my city) which was selling baking ingredients... I asked for some crème fraiche for my wife and some pearled sugar to use in my waffles. They had neither (surprise...) my wife asked if they had any chocolate for baking (at this point I already had lost all hopes of finding any decent chocolate, so I didn't bother asking), as they did have chocolate for baking, we bought one bar (because my wife decided to do so) and, we I cooked with this chocolate, I got my hopes up (a bit).
Chocolate based recipes usually require a good quality of chocolate to taste good, in France I always went for "chocolat noir à patisser Nestlé" which was easy to find and quite good. Here, it took a few month and a specialized shop to finally get my hands on baking dark chocolate but I finally did it, and this recipe is the first one I did with this chocolate.
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An all time favorite that does great with a hot cup of tea.
Ingredients:
130 g flour
50 g coconut oil (or butter) at room temperature
1 teaspoon yeast
1 egg
40 g sugar
3 ripe bananas (small ones)
50 g good dark chocolate
100 ml coconut milk (or regular milk)
Preparation:
- Preheat the oven at 180°C convection mode.
- Chop the bananas into small bites.
- Fry them with some oil in a pan until they start getting colors, add some sugar and put it aside.
- Mix the butter and the sugar until your mixture become homogeneous.
- Add the egg. Mix.
- Cook the coconut milk with the chocolate until you obtain an homogeneous chocolate milk. Add it to the sugar/coconut oil/egg mixture. MAKE SURE the chocolate milk is not too hot in order not to cook the egg.
- Add the flour and yeast. Mix.
- Add the cooked bananas. Mix again.
- Spread your mixture into small muffin molds (in silicone preferably)
- Bake for 30 mn.
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Variations:
I am a big fan of spicy dishes and since chocolate and chili are a great combination (try if you don't believe me), I sometimes add a bit of strong chili flakes on top of my muffins. Careful not to use a chili blend that contains salt but just the plain dried chili flakes.
I am also thinking about doing a version with salted butter caramel instead of chocolate or maybe a liquid salted butter caramel heart... the kind of thing that makes you gain 2 kg just by looking at it but that taste just so damn good.
Ideas:
I am not even sure I should add sugar to the recipe as the chocolate already sweeten the muffins, so I'll probably try without next time.
I could probably also use a bit less coconut oil to make it a little bit easier to digest.
Enjoy!
Cooking daddy
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