Chocolate muffins filled with creamy, cheesy cookie butter mixture. For all those chocolate and cookie butter lovers, you’d definitely love every bite!
So I had plan for the previous weekend. You know I always do. I cannot go on a day without planning what do I have to do for the weekend. When the plan is finalized and entered on my system, nobody should change it. I even cannot change it. Otherwise, there will be a glitch. I had planned to go to to get stuff I’ve been planning to buy. No cooking and I finally get to buy those things – yay! Guess what? Just before that supposed to be a happy day (coz I call grocery day a happy day), friends called and said they will be coming for a visit.
Glitch incoming – I felt it.
So many things going on in my mind like ‘you know you should give me like a week notice’, ‘no food for you tomorrow’…. the mood changed to 180 degrees!
But knowing myself, I couldn’t let them come without anything to offer. And I have this mark on them that I always give them ‘take away’ bag whenever they come to visit. So I checked what can I make them for them to take home.
I remembered that I had cookie butter that’s going to go bad and needed to be used ASAP! And that recipe I pinned has been waiting for a while to be tried. Problem solved and the happy mood came back. I made a batch at night and saved some for the photoshoot the next day. I was waiting for them to leave before I do the photoshoot, but one stayed for a little more time. And that’s it – she found out why I haven’t placed much on their take way bags – coz I saved some take photos. 😀
These chocolate muffins are filled with cookie butter-cream cheese mixture. Every bite is a piece of heaven – chocolatey, creamy from the cookie butter filling. You can also find chocolate chips inside the muffins, so this is such a perfect treat.
Take a cup of tea with you (or should I?) and enjoy these yummy treat at this week’s Fiesta Friday #180. And hey, I am co-hosting with the lovely Tracey @ My Baja Kitchen.
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Cookie Butter Filled Chocolate Muffins
Ingredients:
For the cookie butter filling:
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- ½ cup cookie butter
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
For the chocolate muffins:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- ¾ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup chocolate chips, to be mixed with the batter
- ¼ cup canola oil
- ½ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup milk
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup plain yogurt
- ½ cup chocolate chips, for topping
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350F. Prepare 12 muffin cups lined with a paper liner.
For the cookie butter filling:
- In a heatproof bowl, add in cream cheese and cookie butter. Microwave for 1 minute with 15 seconds intervals until mixture has softened a bit.
- Add in sugar and vanilla extract. Mix and set aside.
For the chocolate muffins:
- In a large bowl, mix flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
- In another small bowl, add ½ cup chocolate chips and take about 1tbsp from the dry ingredients and add to the bowl with chocolate chips. Mix to coat. Set aside. (This will keep the chocolate chips to sink at the bottom)
- In a bowl or jug, add oil, sugar, and milk.
- Add egg, yogurt and vanilla and mix until well incorporated.
- Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix (do not overmix).
- Add in chocolate chips coated with dry ingredients and mix again to incorporate.
Baking the muffins:
- Using an ice scream scoop or a ¼ cup measuring cup, divide the batter into the prepared muffin pan, noting that you have to fill until halfway only.
- Take about 1 tbsp from the cookie butter mixture and add on top chocolate batter.
- Cover the cookie batter with the remaining chocolate batter.
- Top with the remaining ½ cup chocolate chips.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with few crumbs, but not wet batter.
Source recipe: Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Muffins by Sugar Spun Run
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