Friday 28 September 2007

Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Muffins

Don't these babies looked terrific?? Best of all they're low fat! Indulge...

Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Muffins

Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Muffins Mosaic

As I went through the recipe again and again, I noticed there isn't any addition of chocolate chips in there despite the title of the muffin. Hence, I adapted the recipe, adding this and removing that. The texture is little dense but since they're muffin, I guess that was how they were supposed to be like. For myself, I prefer cupcakes' texture as they're lighter and fluffier, nevertheless, these muffins were well received by the recipients or maybe they were polite?


Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Muffins

For muffins:
300g plain flour
25g caster sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp cocoa powder
2 lightly beaten eggs
115 ml sunflower oil
175 ml low fat milk
1 tsp vanilla essence
2 handfuls of chocolate chips

For icing:
2 tbsp margerine, softened
175g icing sugar, sieved
30g cocoa powder
4 tbsp low fat milk
A handful of chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 175C. Grease 12-cup muffin tin. In a medium bowl, mix flour, sugar, baking powder and cocoa with a spoon. In a large bowl, combine eggs, oil, milk and vanilla with electric whisk (I used manual which worked as well) and beat till combined. Add flour mixture and stir till just combined before adding chocolate chips. Do not overmix. Spoon batter into prepared tin. Bake for 20 mins. Remove tin from oven and cool for 5 mins. Then remove muffins and cool on a rack.

In actual fact, I've used the small muffin paper cups which yielded 18-20 muffins (sorry can't recall). They looked terribly cute in them!

For icing, combine all ingredients except milk. Add the milk slowly, beating with electric whisk to make a firm but spreadable mixture. Add in chocolate chips. Spoon the icing onto the cooled muffins.

Adapted from the 500 Cupcakes & Muffins, By Fergal Connolly book (published by PageOne Publishing)


Low-Fat Chocolate Chip Muffins - Minis


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24 comments:

  1. Wow! Looks so good. I'm drooling. Does it taste good?

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  2. pretty ones! it's cupcakes craze everywhere now... :D

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  3. Mmm I like the idea of low fat. Eat more! We can gorge on these after yoga!

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  4. I was one of her test bunnies and I swear, they were as yummy as they looked.. and that is the whole truth .. :)

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  5. yes john!

    meiyen, like my hubby said, just make sure they're cute cos ppl will buy bcos stuff are cute!

    ;-) paprika

    thanks miss yozora bunny, i meant my other bunnies :p

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  6. i see why they are low fat... cocoa powder instead of melted chocolate! smart!!! maybe that's why they are denser? Anyhow, I will be the first to grab one!

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  7. These little muffins look so delicious!

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  8. Hmm, there's 115mL oil though, that's the weight equivalent of half a stick of butter.. But who cares, it looks great, and you can always jog the calories away!

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  9. Low fat and muffins in the same sentence...truly something after my heart! Hahaha...

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  10. Hey.. Babe,
    If it is low fat.. does it still taste like normal muffins..??

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  11. Oh how lovely and adorable yours....I am still thinking about mine day and nite...not knowing what to churn out!...lol

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  12. you sure its low fat ah.... sometimes when I think of low fat.. i eat more.. end up fatter LOL!

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  13. haha low fat ar?? how many calories?? hehehe..looks so good..

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  14. wahhhhhhhhh.......... so pretty~

    i like~



    slenz

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  15. i want the one with the stars pls, pls, plssssssss.... ^_^

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  16. daphne, these are muffins, hence its naturally denser in texture

    l'abeille, tasted not bad esp with the icing hehe

    manggy, i supposed the oil hv less fats than butter

    *hands tissue to will*

    wmw, adoi hahaha

    yes mamabok! keep the recipe

    BBO, am sure there are plenty of goodies up your sleeves

    teckiee, darn! don't say out loud la, now feel dang guilty :p

    joe, dun care lah, just makan first haha

    slenz, thanks. now you have another recipe to try ;-)

    ling, errr you may go copy and paste that pic haha :p

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  17. HAHAH, low fat...i wont be too sure about that, coz really, the only ingredient that differs from normal muffins is the low FAT milk.

    as for margarine, people, margarine is even more unhealthy than butter. go read the loads of lit on the transfat issue. at least butter's more natural.

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  18. wow.. super duper yummy looking.. i m suppose to stay away from sugar le.. this is NOT helping :P kakakkaa

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  19. lol FBB, I used Vitalite margarine, must go back and check if got transfat or not.

    tham, next time i bring more to poison you!

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  20. Great report. I'm really looking forward for anything that can reduce my weight.

    -----------------------------
    Do you want to drop up to 12 Pounds in 2-Days!?

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  21. u sure its 25 g of castor sugar?? i followed this recipe exactly.. it turned out horrible!!!!!!!!!!

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  22. u sure its 25g of castor sugar??????? the taste is soooooooo horrible. i followed the recipe exactly

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  23. bumblebee, yes it was certainly 25g, perhaps you need to check your technique. did you over beat the batter? perhaps you can describe to me what to you mean by horrible and see how i can help you.

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