Triple Chocolate Muffins
These Triple Chocolate Muffins combine milk, dark and white chocolate chips in a rich cocoa batter, baked until fluffy with molten pockets of chocolate. The Thermomix TM7 melts the butter gently, mixes the batter evenly and whisks the eggs in seconds, giving a bakery-style treat with minimal effort for twelve generous muffins.
About this recipe
Triple Chocolate Muffins made in the Thermomix TM7 are the ultimate chocolate lover's dessert, combining three kinds of chocolate chips in one fluffy cocoa sponge. If you have been searching for an easy muffin recipe for your all-in-one kitchen machine, this is the one: the TM7 melts the unsalted butter and dark chocolate gently without any risk of burning, whisks the eggs with the caster sugar until pale, and folds the self raising flour into a silky batter in seconds. Each muffin hides pockets of melted milk and white chocolate, balanced by a pinch of sea salt that deepens the cocoa flavour. This bake is ideal for children's parties, weekend brunches, school lunchboxes or a quick afternoon sweet with a cup of coffee. Because the mixing bowl does the heavy work, you get twelve bakery-style muffins with consistent texture and minimal washing up, week after week.
Preparation tips
- Reserve a handful of the chocolate chips and press them on top of each filled muffin case before baking; this gives the Triple Chocolate Muffins a tempting bakery-style finish with visible chunks of milk and dark chocolate.
- Scoop the cocoa batter into the paper cases with an ice cream scoop so every muffin is the same size; this helps the twelve muffins rise evenly and bake to the same fluffy consistency.
- For the most tender crumb, take the muffins out of the tin shortly after baking and let them cool on a rack; storing them in an airtight tin with a slice of bread keeps the chocolate sponge lovely and soft.
Recipe variations
- Nutty variation: replace half of the milk chocolate chips with chopped hazelnuts or walnuts and add a spoonful of hazelnut spread to the centre of each cocoa muffin for a praline-style treat.
- Festive variation: swap the white chocolate chips for dried cranberries and grate fresh orange zest into the batter, giving the Triple Chocolate Muffins a seasonal flavour that works beautifully at Christmas.
Thermomix TM7 Benefits
- Gentle heating from the TM7 melts the unsalted butter and dark chocolate without scorching, ready for the muffin batter.
- Weighing the self raising flour and caster sugar directly in the TM7 bowl saves time and keeps the muffin ratios spot on.
- Whisking the eggs with the caster sugar in the Thermomix produces a pale, airy base for a fluffy crumb.
- Even mixing blends the cocoa powder and whole milk into a lump-free chocolate batter in seconds.
- Grating a chocolate bar with the TM7 blade creates fine shavings that melt into pockets throughout each muffin.
Ingredients
- unsalted butter
- caster sugar
- whole milk
- self-raising flour
- cocoa powder
- medium eggs
- fine sea salt
- dark chocolate chips
- milk chocolate chips
- white chocolate chips