Lavender Blueberry Double Chocolate Muffins
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Lavender Blueberry Double Chocolate Muffins : perfectly matched blueberry and lavender muffins with lots of chocolate.
There is a whole list of perfect matches of fruits and herbs just like there are complementary colours that create perfect union. I was thrilled to see that blueberries and lavender fit together perfectly.
It was an impulse for me to combine vintage chocolate sheet cake with some blueberries and lavender, muffins shaped and top them with perfect chocolate ganache.
To keep the muffins in one piece after baking, there are only three blueberries in each muffin but I added more on the top.
I published these Lavender Blueberry Double Chocolate Muffins four years ago and the only reason I repost them is experimenting with recently found weathered board and different light source.
It comes from completely different sides and I was curious to see the outcome.
The ingredients are absolutely the same but I have converted table spoons into cups ; as I spotted the quantities written in table spoons for 12 muffins I have understood it needs to be changed, immediately .
You know, I have an academic degree in technical sciencies and precise calculations and measuring are not a strange thing to me but the point is in simplifying things, agree ?
So, once I’ve got everything in right place, I decided to repost. It would be such a waste not to turn some attention to these perfect bites especially when the markets are bursting with blueberries and lavender.
When developing recipes with food grade oils like lavender, orange flower or spearmint please have in mind that only a drop or two is enough. For this batch one single drop of lavender oil is enough. You may substitute it with one third tea spoon of dry lavender flowers.
If you love cooking with lavender here is another lavender muffins recipe, quite popular one, that has pushed me to develop this one :
Lavender Muffins
Lavender Blueberry Double Chocolate Muffins
Lavender Blueberry Double Chocolate Muffins are chocolate muffins with blueberries and lavender in the batter but also on the top of ganache. Perfect to serve with ice cream!
Ingredients
- Ingredients for chocolate muffins :
- 3 tsp unsalted butter, room temperature
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 drop edible lavender oil or 1/3 tsp lavender flowers
- 1 Β½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup + 2 Tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3 Tbsp bitter cocoa powder
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 1/3 cup milk
- 1 cup blueberries ( batter and the top )
- Ingredients for chocolate ganache :
- 9 Tbsp heavy cream
- 6 Tbsp melted semi-sweet chocolate
- Lavender flowers to garnish, optionally
Instructions
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Place paper bags into 12 muffins hole pan and leave it aside.
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Preheat the oven to 180 C / 356 F.
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Whisk together egg yolks and butter in medium sized bowl.
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Add the rest of muffins ingredients and combine until you get smooth texture. Do not overmix.
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Fill the paper cups up to 2/3 and insert 3 blueberries inside of every muffin.
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Bake for 16 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
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Take the pan out of the oven and leave blueberry muffins to cool completely.
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For the ganache, melt the chocolate in microwave.
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In a small pot, warm the heavy cream; do not bring to boil, just warm it and add chocolate chips.
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Combine until smooth and take away from the heat.
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Spread over muffins, garnish with blueberries and lavender flowers, optionally.
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