Chocolate & mandarin marbled cakes

These little moist marble cakes are easy to make and taste divine

Ingredients:

125 g melted butter

100 g caster sugar

3 eggs

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

200 g all purpose flour

1 tsk vanilla sugar

150 ml full fat milk

100 g dark chocolate

2 x mandarins or clementines

12 hole muffin tray or a square cake tin aprox 23cm x 23cm

Paper muffin cases or baking paper

Method:

Whisk butter and sugar well. Whilst whisking, add the eggs one at the time. Mix the baking powder, flour and vanilla sugar, and sift it all into the mixture, finally fold in the milk.

Divide the mixture in two bowls.

Melt the chocolate and mix it in to one half of the mixture, add the zest of the two fruits to the other half.

First add the light mixture to the cases and then add the chocolate mixture on top, use a fork to create the marbled effect.

Bake the muffins in a 170˚ preheated oven for approximately 25 min add 10 min if you are baking a cake.

When the muffins come out, let them cool of slightly, then skewer them gently with a fork and drizzle with the juice from the two fruits.

Overripe Bananas (Great muffin recipe)

We use this muffin recipe every time we have overripe bananas, it's super easy, and only takes 10 min to mix up. We also vary the ingredients once in a while, like today we added a handful of blueberries. Here goes:

Chocolate/Banana Muffins - Makes 12 large muffins

You will need, 2 x 6 hole muffin tin (or one with 12 holes), 12 x Paper cases

100 g Good quality cold butter, cut into small pieces
225 g Self raising flour
75 g Caster sugar
2 large (or 3 small) ripe bananas, mashed roughly
2 Eggs, beaten lightly
2 tbsp honey
50 g chopped dark chocolate (or chocolate drops)

• Sieve (strain) the flour into a mixing bowl
• Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs

• Stir the sugar, chocolate, bananas, beaten eggs and honey into the dry ingredients. Mix together with a spoon to form a soft dropping consistency.

• Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases

      

• My little helper

 

• Bake the muffins in a preheated oven 160 degrees celsius for about 25 min

Cooking tip : you can also add a small handful of  blueberries to the mixture or use dried dates instead of chocolate, we have also tried a strawberry/banana combo which was yummy - Happy cooking :-)