In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven't read about it yet, you can do so here. ***
Over the course of the past few months, I have acquired several kinds of chips:
But today's recipe calls for just these two: Special Dark and Mini
And a dozen or so of these babies. Mmm. Fluffy, sugary goodness.
A HUGE Thank You to my mother-in-love for loaning me her food scale. Without it, I'd totally be guessing how many chocolate chips are in 8 ounces...
Like most healthy yummy recipes, you start with your dark chocolate chips and two sticks of butter (I know, I know. You health nuts can go ahead and cringe now.)
You melt that down until the chocolate is completely incorporated...but you don't want to COOK it, so don't get it too hot, just hot enough to melt.
So you have the likes of this: chocolate soup!
Next, you cream the eggs and sugar together.
This makes quite a frothy combo.
Next come the dry ingredients.
And the chocolate soup.
The final mixture looks like this:
Get your muffin pan lined and ready. Being frugal and not one to care if the papers match or not, I used up some odds and ends by mixing together several kinds of papers.
Fill the cups with the batter...
remember these guys? The Minis? Now's their chance to shine!
A teaspoon or so of the Minis are sprinkled on each cupcake.
The cakes are then baked in the oven. The recipe said they would be "very moist", but when I took them out of the oven, they seemed RAW in the middle...like a molten lava cake. Throwing caution to the wind and straying from my recipe, I cooked them for another 10 minutes to see if they'd set up in the center.
Once they were cooked sufficiently, I topped each one with a fluffy jumbo marshmallow and stuck them under the broiler (oh, and burnt my arm in the process. Such fun!).
Clearly, my broiler doesn't heat very evenly. Or maybe it's the fact that I'd never used the broiler in a gas oven before and didn't really know what I was doing. :) At any rate, they turned out to be very DELICIOUS!!!
Chocolatey, marshmallowy, warm, and ooey-gooey. Mmm mmm mmm.
