Chocolate and cherry are one of the most popular classics in baked goods. The sourness of the cherries complements the sweetness of the muffins well, but if you are very fond of sweets and chocolate, you can also make a chocolate icing and pour the muffins on top. The most important condition for successful baking in this case is high-quality cocoa, you should not save on this product.
- General \ asset cooking time: 45 minutes \ 15 minutes
- Servings Per Container: 10 Servings
- Caloric value (100g): 208 kcal
- Cost: average cost
How to make chocolate cherry muffins
- Cocoa powder - 20 g
- Flour - 180 g
- Baking dough - 1 tbsp
- Sour cream - 200 g
- Chicken egg - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 160 g 140 g per dough
- Cherries - 1 tbsp. (200 ml)
- Salt - 1 pinch (s)
Preparation:
To make chocolate cherry muffins, the cherries need to be pitted and drained. Pat the cherries dry on a paper towel and stir in a teaspoon of starch or flour. This will prevent the cherries from letting in excess juice when baking, and the dough next to the berries will bake well.
Sift all loose ingredients into a separate bowl, namely: 180 g flour, 20 g dark cocoa powder, a pinch of salt and 1 tablespoon baking powder. Mix them well with a whisk.
You can use alkalized cocoa, it is richer and darker. But if you have light cocoa, not very rich in taste and color, then the proportion of cocoa and flour can be slightly changed, for example, take 30 g of cocoa powder for 170 g of flour.
Whisk together eggs, sour cream and 140 g sugar until fluffy and smooth.
You can whip this massmixer.
Mix dry and wet ingredients with a whisk or spatula until smooth. Please note that it is not recommended to beat such a dough with a mixer, as the pastry will be tough and "rubbery".
Add prepared cherries to the dough.
Divide the dough into muffin tins. If you use silicone molds, then you do not need to lubricate them, if others, then you need to lubricate them with oil.
Sprinkle a pinch of sugar on top of each future muffin, it will give the muffins a crispy crust after baking.
Bake muffins for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees C.
Check with a skewer - it should come out of the baking dry. Transfer the muffin tins to a wire rack and let cool slightly.
Remove the muffins from the molds and cool completely on a wire rack.
Serve your chocolate cherry muffins with a mug of cold milk or hot coffee.
