Chocolate Marshmallow Muffins

It was the last day of school for the term so I thought of giving the kids a bit of a treat. I wanted to make a surprised mashmallow muffin where the marshmallow melts and oozes out when you bite into the muffin. However the marshmallow floats up instead so it's not exactly how I wanted it but they tasted great anyway. When I make this again, I will probably add more marshmallows and really push them in so they don't float up.

Chocolate Marshmallow Muffins 

Makes 8 muffins

Ingredients
dry
1 1/2 cups (220 gr) self raising flour
1/2 cup (115 gr) caster sugar
3 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
8 marshmallows

wet
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
3/4 cup cooking oil
1 tsp vanilla essence

Method

• Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) and place muffin papers in muffin tins or grease muffin tins well with butter.
• Mix the dry ingredients except marshmallows.
• Combine all the wet ingredients in a separate bowl and whisk lightly.
• Pour into flour mixture and stir with a fork until just combined. Do not overmix.
• Spoon one generous tablespoon of batter into muffin tins. 

• Place the marshmallows in the centre 

• Cover with more batter until full.

• Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until skewers come out clean.
• Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out.
• Enjoy.

Orange Marmalade Poppy Seeds Muffins

This is one of my favourite muffins but somehow I have never gotten to bake this until now. I googled "orange poppy seeds muffin" and a recipe from taste.com.au came on top. It has pretty good reviews so I decided to use it with some modifications. Most of the comments left were they could use more orange juice and rind hence I added more of those and I tried adding marmalade to give it more orange taste. I think it worked rather well. When I bake this again, I might add another teaspoon of orange rind just to see if it make it better  but I am quite happy with how it turned out.

Orange Marmalade Poppy Seeds Muffins 
Adapted from taste.com.au

Makes 12 muffins

Ingredients

dry
2 cups self raising flour
3/4 cups castor sugar
2 tbsp poppy seeds

wet
2 eggs
1/2 cup orange juice (from 1 medium orange)
3/4 cup milk
125 gr butter, melted
3 tsp finely grated orange rind (from 2 medium orange)
2 tbsp marmalade

Method

• Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) and place muffin papers in muffin tins or grease muffin tins well with butter.
• Mix the dry ingredients.
• Combine all the wet ingredients in a separate bowl and whisk lightly.
• Pour into flour mixture and stir with a fork until just combined. Do not overmix.
• Spoon batter into muffin tins equally (about 2 1/2 tbsp each).
• Bake for 20 - 25 minutes or until slightly browned on top.
• Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes before turning out.
• Enjoy.