what's cooking wednesday - chocolate chip muffins

When I was a kid muffins were huge.Which is to say they were popular. Everyone was making muffins in the early 80's. I can still remember flipping through my Mom's muffin cookbooks and those Mmmmmuffins places that were at the mall. And was it just me or was everyone making zucchini muffins? Cooking, much like fashion, goes through trends and I don't think muffins are as popular today as they were twenty-five or thirty years ago, but my kids still enjoy them.

I have mentioned here that I have been baking more of my kids lunch time snacks. I feel better knowing if they are eating cookies at least they are made at home and I know exactly what's in them. Not to mention it's cheaper and takes very little time. For some reason though, when it came to muffins I always made them from a mix and really if I'm going to do that I may as well buy the pre-made stuff. I don't have many cookbooks, since I prefer the internet for recipe searching (as do a lot of other people -- recipe searches are what bring people here the most), but I do love my Big Red Cookbook from Betty Crocker. That's where I found this quick and easy chocolate chip muffin (Maya's favourite) recipe.

--imagine a picture of chocolate chip muffins here and I'll see what I can do for you tomorrow--

Chocolate Chip Muffins


3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup butter, melted
1 lrg egg
1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
2 1/1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt

Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease the bottoms only of a 12 medium sized muffin pan or use paper liners.

Beat milk, butter and egg in a large bowl with a fork or whisk. Stir in remaining ingredients until flour is just moistened. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups.

Bake 18 - 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Recipe Notes: Well if you've been reading here for any length of time you know I skipped the nuts all together and switched the semisweet for milk choco chips because I have no room in my life for nuts in my baking or semisweet chips. No other changes were made. I will definitely be making these again. They didn't take much longer to make than the mix you add egg and water to and I almost always have all those ingredients on hand.




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