Dark Chocolate Chunk Muffins

These looked so fantastic when I saw them on pinterest. I thought it would be a change up for my husband in the mornings. Typically I make muffins, freeze a few in a bag and when he doesn't have time for his shake I pull a bag out and toss it in his lunch bag. He's usually late so something fast and easy is a must in our house.

This is an interesting recipe because of a few things, it doesn't use flour and you put everything in a food processor. Different. Start with some oats.

Add some unsweetened cocoa.

Then some vanilla

Some unsweetened applesauce. This is my homemade variety, yummy.

 Here it is again because you can't have enough pictures of homemade applesauce.

 Some plain yogurt.

I used honey as a sweetener. It's all I really have in terms of healthy sweeteners.

Some vinegar because I couldn't find my cream of tartar and I wasn't going to search through the ridiculously cluttered spice shelf.

 Some hot water.

The eggs were supposed to come earlier but I forgot them. Thankfully I remembered. If you can't tell I already blended the ingredients before saying "I forgot the eggs!" and then my daughter wanted to know what was wrong.

Just throw the chocolate chips in with the batter in the food processor because who needs to make another dish dirty? Especially when you wash yours by hand.

Here they are all cooked. I know they looked burned. I added peanut chips and white chocolate chips to the top.

Up close and personal. On a side note, I didn't care for that movie. I know they look burned but I couldn't get them to be done in the middle.

The batter was really thin, I think I'll cut down on the water.

Ingredients:
1 3/4 cup oats
3 eggs
3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup plain yogurt
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar or 1 1/2 Tablespoon vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup hot water (I cut down the amount of water than what I used in mine, you're welcome to add   more if you need to.)
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup chocolate chips (you can use white or peanut butter ones as well)

Makes around 24.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Blend everything except the chocolate chips in a blender or food processor until oats are ground and the mixture is smooth. Put half of the chocolate chips in with the batter. Fill greased muffin tin 3/4 full of batter. Bake for eight minutes and add chocolate chips to the top of the muffin. Bake for another 8-10 minutes or until muffins are done. Check with a toothpick, when it comes out clean they're done.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes

I made these for my husband's family picnic at work. We thought these might be fun for all the kids that were going to be there. I found this recipe on http://thedoctorsdishesdessertsdecor.blogspot.com/2010/09/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-cupcakes.html and thought they looked fantastic.

I sent my husband to the store and he came back with three huge tubes of cookie dough. I thought he was way off base buying three but I ended up using two but having lots of cookies left over. I guess he knows better than I do. Don't let him know that though. While I was making the balls for the middle of the cupcakes I munched on the cookie dough and even gave it to my 14 month to eat. After I made the cookies I sat on the couch and munched on the cookie dough some more. It wasn't until I was putting it in the refrigerator that I noticed in big letters, DO NOT CONSUME RAW COOKIE DOUGH. Ooops.

I made the cookies the night before so that I wouldn't have to do everything all at once, plus it spread the dishes out.

Time for the will power.

For the cupcakes I used one yellow cake mix with the pudding in the mix. I added 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt (it was an organic natural sugar kind from Nancy's), one cup of milk (not pictured, I like to claim that the children steal brain cells), 3 eggs, 1/2 cup vegetable oil, and one teaspoon vanilla.

I wanted to try the yogurt since I've never tried it in a cupcake before plus we have two huge containers in the fridge that need to be used (that's probably the real reason).

Not pretty.

Here's where the cookie dough comes in, I took the idea from Cupcakes! from the Cake Mix Doctor. She suggests you freeze the cookie dough and then put it in the middle. I tried this and couldn't figure out why it mattered, all the cookie dough ended up on the bottom. Freezing it was a good idea though, after cooking the cupcake, the cookie dough doesn't get cooked all the way and is gooey and delicious.

One the right is the cookie dough just placed in and on the left is the cookie dough covered.

This is what it looks like after it was cooked.

See, all at the bottom.

Time for the frosting. I got this recipe from the http://thedoctorsdishesdessertsdecor.blogspot.com/2010/09/chocolate-chip-cookie-dough-cupcakes.html same website as before. It was a different recipe than I'm used to. Definitely interesting. Not a huge fan of the frosting, it ended up being grainy with the brown sugar. It wasn't a very sweet frosting either with the flour.

I used one and a half cups of butter Crisco instead of butter, so they tell you to add some water, that's why there is water in the picture.

Creamed the two together.

Added some powdered sugar.

All done.

Ingredients:
1 yellow cake mix with pudding
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1 cup milk
3 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tubes chocolate chip cookie dough

Take one tube chocolate chip cookie dough, form 24, 2 inch balls and freeze.

Mix everything together except the chocolate chip cookie dough. Put batter in cupcake pan and cook at 350 degrees for 22-25 minutes. Cool before frosting.

Frosting:
3 sticks butter or 1 1/2 cups butter Crisco
3/4 cup brown sugar
3-4 cups powder sugar
1 cup flour
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon vanilla

Cream together butter and brown sugar. Add the powder sugar and combine till smooth. Add the flour, milk and vanilla. Mix together until smooth.

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