Chocolate Graham Muffins

Who doesn’t like graham crackers? And since we already know that no one doesn’t like chocolate (not true- I met a lovely woman recently who really doesn’t care for it- strange but true), why not combine the two?

I know, I know: the s’mores people already thought of the graham cracker/chocolate combination, but they never got into the muffin business.

This recipe is unreasonably easy, which is exactly what I was looking for- no effort, nothing fancy, no food processor, no pile of dirty dishes, no piping bag, no candy thermometer. No disasters. The mini muffins take like 10 minutes to bake (after less than 10 minutes to stir the ingredients up together). So what are you waiting for?

Adapted from Honey Maid’s recipe…

2 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs (about 16 large crackers finely ground, if you don’t have the crumbs from the box*)

1/4 cup sugar

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 cup milk

1 egg, lightly beaten

2 tablespoons honey

1/2 cup chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 400º; grease a muffin pan and set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, combine graham crumbs, cocoa powder, sugar and baking powder.
3. In a separate medium bowl, combine milk, eggs and honey. Pour into dry mixture and stir until just combined. Scoop into prepared muffin pan, sprinkle chocolate chips over tops, and bake for 10 minutes for mini-muffins, or 16 minutes for regular muffins (until a cake tester comes out clean of crumbs). Allow to cool on wire rack for 5 minutes, then remove muffins from pan to continue cooling.
Tips:
- *You really need to get the crumbs from the box. It’s the whole point of the recipe- to make things easy. Why pull out the food processor when you can just buy the box of crumbs?
- What kind of chocolate to use? For the cocoa powder, I used a combo of dark cocoa and dutch-processed cocoa. Just make sure it’s unsweetened. For the chips, use whatever floats your boat- semi-sweet or bittersweet, or maybe even milk or white. Whatever. It’ll all taste great.
- I wish I had added marshmallows to complete the whole s’mores theme. But sometimes marshmallows screw up when they bake (pardon me- sometimes I screw them up), so I’m a bit gun-shy. But I see no reason for you to try- add a cup of mini marshmallows to the batter. Yum.
- These freeze well.
- Enjoy!
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March 7th, 2015 | More Sweets Please | No Comments | Tags: Breads & Muffins, Chocolate