Saturday, December 17, 2011

Bacon Chocolate Chip Muffins

You might be thinking, "Bacon Chocolate Chip Muffins?!?!" Yes, it sounds strange, but this combination is DELICIOUS! We first had this combo at the Blue Grass Grill in Charlottesville, VA
(https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bluegrass-Grill-and-Bakery/50979888261).
We had both a bacon chocolate chip muffin and chocolate covered bacon. C'est magnifique! I've been wanting to try to make one of the two and I finally attempted the muffins this morning. I couldn't find a recipe online so I used the Best Ever Muffin with Bacon recipe from this site (http://allrecipes.com/recipe/best-ever-muffins/) and added chocolate chips. In addition, when I woke up I realized that we used all the eggs for dinner two night before so I substituted a flax seed and water blended mix for the eggs (http://www.thecookinginn.com/eggsub.html). The result? Delicious! Micah (my four-year-old) kept saying, "Yum, yum, yum!" He also said that the muffins could have used more bacon and more chocolate chips, so you can experiment. I thought they were great as is. Here's the recipe!

Bacon Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients
2 cups all-purpose flour (250 grams)
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup white sugar (187.5 grams)
1 egg (or 1 heaping Tbsp flax seeds blended to a fine powder then blended with 1/4 cup water until consistency of an egg)
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup crisp cooked bacon, crumbled
1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C).
Sift together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Make a well in the center. In a small bowl or 2 cup measuring cup, beat egg with a fork. Stir in milk and oil. Pour all at once into the well in the flour mixture along with the bacon and chocolate chips. Mix quickly and lightly with a fork until moistened, but do not beat. The batter will be lumpy. Pour the batter into paper lined muffin pan cups.
Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden.

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