Chocolate chip Muffins

I won the heart of my kids again with this new recipe… Muffins!!… they LOVED it. 

I never thought that muffins are so simple and easy.  All you need are two bowls; one for the wet ingredients, and one for the dry. Combine the two and your batter is ready. It is that simple. And less time for baking also. 

Here I used chocolate chips. instead of chocolate chips, you can add dried fruits or even chopped nuts.

Ingredients:

Butter, melted and cooled - 1/2 cup

Eggs-2 large

Milk -2/3 cup

Vanilla extract -1 1/2 teaspoons

All-purposeflour -2 cups

Sugar- 2/3 cup

Baking powder 2 1/2 teaspoons

salt 1/4 teaspoon

Chocolate chips - 1 cup

Topping:
Granulated white sugar-1 tablespoon
Ground cinnamon- 1/2 teaspoon

Directions

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.

In a bowl whisk together the eggs, milk, and vanilla extract.  

In another large bowl whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

Stir in the chocolate chips 

Fold the egg-milk mixture, along with the melted butter, into the dry ingredients and stir  until the ingredients are moistened and combined. The important thing is not to over mix the batter or you will end up with muffins that are a little tough.

Fill muffin cups about ⅔ of the way full. sprinkle a little topping on each muffin. Bake for 15-20 minutes, until a tester comes out clean.

Remove to a wire rack to cool completely

Burfi

Diwali also known as Deepavali is the "festival of lights". The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.

A Very Happy Diwali to all.

No celebration is complete without a sweet  and my special recipe for this Diwali is a Burfi. My son named it as a 'double decker burfi'. Yes it is… one layer of chocolate and the other Milk. I added some crushed nuts to give that crunchy taste also. Chocolate is favorite to everyone specially kids like it more. You can count this as an easy recipes as it has only few ingredients and easy to prepare also.

You could garnish your  Barfi with silver foil too if you wish to make it look more festive.  I did not do this here. 

Ingredients:

For white layer:-

Maida/ All purpose flour - 1/2 cup 

Milk powder- ½ cup

Milk – 3 table spoon

Ghee  - 2 table spoon

Sugar  - 1/2 cup 

Vanilla essense - 3 drops 

Crushed nuts- 2 table spoon

For Chocolate layer:-

Maida/ All purpose flour - 1/2 cup 

Milk powder- ½ cup

Chocolate powder- 2 table spoon

Milk – 3 table spoon

Ghee  - 2 table spoon

Sugar  - 1/2 cup 

Directions

Grease plate with some ghee and keep it ready.
Heat Ghee in a pan until hot, add milk
Combine all-purpose flour and milk powder and add it to the ghee , Stir constantly and cook on low-medium flame
In another pan, add sugar and 1/2 cup water. Boil until it reach the one string consistency. Add vannila essence
Combine both the roasted flour and the sugar syrup and stir well.
Add the crushed nuts and stir continuously . Continue till the mixture gets thick. If your sugar syrup is in the correct consistency, the mixture gets thick fast, so the time depends on the syrup consistency.
Pour mixture over the greased plate. Spread evenly.

Add coco powder also to the maida- milk powder mixture. Repeat the same procedure for the next layer also.
Spread the next layer evenly on top of the first layer.
Within 2 hours burfi will get set. Now cut this mixture in square pieces. Burfi is ready. Store it in air tight container and place it refrigerator.