Recipe: Chocolate muffings
My mother gave me a recipe for chocolate muffins a long time ago. She even made them for me while she was visiting once, but I'd never quite bothered to make them myself so they were this week's recipe of the week.
The recipe itself is pretty simple:
Soak 3 cups of all-bran cereal in 2 1/2 cups to 3 cups of water for 10 minutes
Mix in 1 tsp of baking powder and one box of low-fat chocolate brownie mix.
Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
This makes 12 2 point muffins.
The problem I've always had with her muffins is that they don't really appear to rise. They're kind of cakey and solid, which you'd expect from brownies, but not muffins.
So I decided to try using carbonated water instead of regular water, to give them a little more airiness, and that worked quite well. They rose beautifully. Well, 10 of them rose beautifully and two of them were peaky, but that's not bad odds. I was hoping the fact that it was cherry flavoured carbonated water might add some flavour, but it's only a slight aftertaste, not much to speak of.