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Chocolate and Sweet Basil Muffins

Ingredients

  • 2 eggs
  • 250 ml milk
  • 200 gr sugar
  • 125 ml palm oil
  • 300 gr flour
  • 100 gr cocoa powder
  • 50 gr sweet basil leaves, chopped
  • 1 tbsp instant coffee powder
  • a pinch of salt
  • 3 tsp baking powder
  • 100 gr pecan nuts – blind fried and roughly chopped
  • 180 gr chocolate chips
  • icing sugar

Method

  1. Beat eggs until pale and fluffy for 3 minutes, then add sugar. Beat in milk then gradually beat in palm oil.
  2. Sieve flour, cocoa powder, coffee powder, salt and baking powder together. Fold them into egg mixture. Mix in the pecan nuts, sweet basil and chocolate chips.
  3. Fill the muffin tin. Bake at 180°C until crusty on top and a tester inserted comes out with moist crumbs attached, about 20 to 22 minutes.
  4. Let them cool for 15 minutes. Sift icing sugar over the muffins.

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    27 August 2018 at 11:04

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