There are two IWI book clubs in Istanbul: one holds its meetings in a cafe while the other has them in a different member’s house every month. I belong to the second one. We like the more intimate atmosphere a private home generates!
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| lemon coconut biscuits, cherry choc muffins, zesty carrot&ginger cake |
So last week it was at my place. I was pleased as I hadn’t seen everyone since Australia but also because I had this recipe up my sleeve just waiting to be tried out. We serve tea and coffee and a few bits and pieces to eat, you see. I thought cherry choc would be just the thing for a grey winter’s day outside and a warm cheery gathering inside.
Ingredients for Cherry Choc Muffins
From BBC Good Food Magazine
Makes 16
250g/9oz unsalted butter
185g/6 ½ oz caster sugar (in Turkey use regular toz şeker)
4 medium eggs
250g/9oz plain flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder/kabartma tozu
A splash of milk
200g/7oz dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces (I used choc chips since we can get them here now)
425g/15oz can pitted Morello cherries, drained (mine were in a jar – vişne in Turkish)
Method
· In a mixer using the blade attachment, cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time, and mix for 4 mins. Add the flour, baking powder and milk, and mix for a further 4 mins on slow, then mix in the chocolate.
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| the silky batter |
· Heat oven to 200°C/350°F/gas 6. Cut 16 squares of baking parchment big enough to act as cases for the holes of your muffin tins. Using a piping bag or a spoon, fill the muffin cases with the mixture.
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| the filled cases minus the cherries |
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| and here, with the cherries pushed into each one |
· When all the cases are filled, share the cherries equally between the muffins, pushing them into the mixture as you go. Bake for 25 mins, then serve warm or cold.
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| ready for the oven |
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Comment
How do you like the new-look muffin cases? I first noticed Nigella using them but failed to track them down when I was last in John Lewis’.
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| baked cherry choc muffins |
But there they were, on the supermarket shelf in Dungog, a charming little place of 2000 inhabitants about 1 ½ hours away from Sydney where I was visiting friends from Istanbul. I was amazed and bought them without more ado!
Of course you can easily make them yourself as the recipe describes! Or use regular ones.
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