recipes
Chocolate muffins
Makes 12 serves
Ingredients
20g butter, melted, for greasing
2 cups
½teaspoon baking powder ¼ cup cocoa powder
3 tablespoons caster sugar
1 cup dark choc bits
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 cup + 1 tablespoon milk
50g butter, melted
method
1.Using the ‘Bake’ function, preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 180ºC
2.Lightly grease 6 x ½ cup capacity muffin pans with melted butter. Ensure the muffin pan is a suitable size for the oven. Six ramekins lined with paper cases are suitable.
3.Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa together into a large bowl. Stir in caster sugar and choc bits; mix well.
4.Combine the egg, milk and butter and pour into the dry ingredients. Mix until just combined.
5.Spoon half the mixture into the muffin pans until
6.Reduce temperature to 160ºC. Bake for 20 minutes or until muffins are cooked when tested. Turn muffins out onto a wire rack to cool slightly.
7.Repeat with remaining mixture.
Serve warm.
Apple and blackberry crumble
Makes
Ingredients
2 cups cooked apple, drained
1 x 425g can blackberries, drained
1 cup plain flour
2 tablespoons desiccated coconut or rolled oats
½cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 50g butter, chopped
method
1.Using the ‘Bake’ function, preheat the oven for 5 minutes at 175ºC.
2.Combine the apple and blackberries and place into a 16cm ovenproof dish. Ensure the dish is a suitable type and size for the oven.
3.Mix together the flour, coconut, sugar and cinnamon. Rub butter into the dry ingredients with fingertips until the mixture resembles coarse breadcrumbs.
4.Spread crumble mixture over apple mixture. Place into oven.
5.Reduce temperature to 160ºC. Bake for
6.Serve with lightly whipped cream or ice cream.
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