Choco-coco muffins

This post is especially for Kasia - my brother's girlfriend. I've made these muffins while I was spending some time with my family in Germany and Kasia said that they were the best muffins she has ever tasted.

Making these muffins is very easy and it takes only about 40 minutes from start to finish! Easy, quick and delicious with lovely bits of white chocolate, that's what I'm talking about! Yummy!!

Chocolate Coconut Muffins

(makes 12 muffins)

Ingredients:

200 g flour

8 Tbsp desiccated coconut

2 tsp baking powder

2 Tbsp cocoa powder

2 eggs

130 g sugar 

pinch of salt

100 g butter (melted and slightly cooled)

200 ml coconut milk

100 g white chocolate (chopped into small pieces)

Method:

Preheat oven to 180 degrees/ 160 degrees fan.

Line muffin tray with paper muffin cases

Sieve the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder into a large bowl, add the desiccated coconut and mix all the dry ingredients. In another bowl beat the eggs with sugar, add the coconut milk and cooled butter, mix it. 

Add the wet ingredients into your dry ingredients, mix it gently until combined.
Finally, add the white chocolate chips and gently fold them in.

Fill muffin cases and bake in the middle of the oven for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean.

So, Kasia, I hope you'll enjoy the muffins and hope to see you both very soon in Dublin!

Our favourite brownie recipe

There are two types of brownie lovers, these that like their brownies well-risen, light and fluffy and these that like their brownies to be heavy, fudgy and intensely chocolatey. We definitely fall in to the second category, I mean - I'm not too bad, I love my sweets and I enjoy any type of cake but since I have tried this recipe Mr PB does not want me to make brownies any other way.
Yesterday when I suggested that this weekend I will make brownies with dulce de leche swirl for a change, the response I got was: "No way, he wants HIS brownies and that there is no need to try new recipes as these brownies are perfect!"
OK, so here it comes, the recipe for possibly the best brownies in the world!! The brownies are delicious, moist with lovely delicate crust. Adding a pinch of salt helps to really bring out the intense chocolate flavour. No cocoa powder is used in these beauties, we're talking real chocolate and plenty of it!!!

Double Chocolate Brownies

Ingredients:
115g unsalted butter, plus more for greasing
60g dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup dark chocolate chopped into small chips
1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt

Method:
Heat oven to 165 degrees. Grease an 20x20 brownie tin with butter. Line the tin with parchment paper, grease the paper. Set aside.
Melt the butter and the chocolate together in a medium size saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Remove the pan from heat and stir in the sugar. Add the eggs and vanilla and stir to make a smooth batter. Add the chocolate chips, flour, and salt, stir until incorporated. Pour the batter into the baking pan and spread evenly. Bake for about 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. Enjoy the brownie with softly whipped cream, warm with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream or as a part of a trio of chocolate desserts as we did.