chocolate cheesecake muffins

its my 1st baking 4 orphanage project

i wanted them to have a taste of chocolate

i wanted them to have the taste of cheesecake

hence this muffins selection

its a combination of chocolate cupcake & cheesecake

...with muffins texture

chocolate cupcake

materials:

• 7oz self raising flour
• 5.5oz castor sugar (150g)
• 2oz cocoa powder
• 1tbs baking powder
• 1cup buttermilk
• 4tbs vegetable oil
• 2oz butter - liquidized!
• 1egg
• 1/2tsp vanilla extract
• 3oz chocolate chip

method:

1. prepare buttermilk
2. preheat oven to 190C. line muffin pan with papercups.
3. in bigger bowl, whisk flour, sugar, cocoa powder & baking powder
4. in smaller bowl, combine buttermilk, oil, liquidized butter, egg and vanilla. mix well.
5. pour wet mixture into dry mixture. mix until just incorporated.
6. add chocolate chip. mix. divide into papercups.

before dividing into papercups,

i prepare the cheesecake layer first:

• 7oz cream cheese (200g) <-- room temperature
• 3oz castor sugar
• 1/2tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2oz almond flake

1. beat cream cheese, sugar, egg & vanilla until well blended
2. add almond flakes
3. scoop onto the top layer of chocolate batter
4. use toothpick to mix & combine the chocolate & cheese batter. <-- slowly!
5. bake 20-25mins

this recipe yields 24 papercups (medium cupcake papercups)

verdict:

little boy is eager to eat

but half way through he said

"taknaklah.. tak sedap!"

:((

i just hope the kids @rumah anakyatim shifa'

will appreciate it more than my little boy did