I planned to try a chocolate soufflé this weekend, but I catched a mean cold (again). So I spend the whole saturday in bed, and sunday i was better, but not well enough for kitchen experiments. So I postpone the soufflé to the next weekend and choose a simple recipe instead.

I want to try the chocolate custard muffins from Dan Lepard for a long time. I just had no neutral oil, so I exchanged the oil for butter. But that did not spoil the result, the muffins are very fluffy.

Chocolate custard muffins

yields 6 muffins

• 25g cornflour
• 1,5 tablespoons cocoa
• 100g  sugar
• 125ml cold water
• 65g unsalted butter, cubed
• 65g dark chocolate, choped
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 65g flour
• 1 tsp baking powder

Place the cornflour, cocoa, sugar and water into a saucepan and stirr until boiling. The mixture becomes very thick and smooth. Add in the chocolate and butter and stir untill the mixture is homogenous. Now add the egg and mix again, now add flour and baking powder and mix untill a nice dough develop. Fill into 6 Paper-Muffinforms  and bake add 180°C for 25 minutes.