• 250 grams of plain flour,
• 2 tsp baking powder,
• ½ tsp of cooking soda,
• 2 tbsp of good quality Dutch processed cocoa powder,
• 175 grams of powdered sugar,
• 200 grams of chocolate morsels or chips,
• 250 ml of cold milk, at normal room temperature,
• 90 ml of any regular vegetable oil,
• 1 tsp of good quality vanilla extract,
• 1 large egg, at normal room temperature

Before you begin, set your oven at 180 degrees centigrade for pre heating. Line the muffin moulds with some muffin papers and keep aside.

Now sieve all the dry ingredients together and keep aside. The dry ingredients would be flour, cocoa powder, cooking soda, baking powder, sugar and chocolate chips.

It’s important for the chips to sit in the dry mixture for some time. This is so that they are well coated with the dried mixture and remain light.

Usually, chocolate morsels sink in the bottom while baking. This trick would keep them from sinking. Make sure you save a few morsels for the final sprinkling.

Gather all the liquid ingredients like milk, oil, egg and vanilla extract together and whip well.

Now mix the dried mix into the liquid in equal installments, so as to prevent the formation of lumps. The batter will look more liquid, but you will have no complaints when you see the well risen, springy muffins.

The batter should be immediately spooned into the muffin cups. Throw in the saved chocolate chips over the top and immediately place in the oven, to bake. Almost 24 muffins can be baked out of this batter.

Each batch of 12 muffins will take 20 minutes to bake. Allow them to cool and then enjoy a dark,

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