Caramel and chocolate muffins

Sweet and chocolaty, can't get any better!

Drinking coffee is the only way to start the morning for lots of people around the world. The unique flavor of coffee goes extremely well with so many sweets that for many coffee time is the ideal time to sample sweets and what better companion than a freshly baked muffin to go along your daily dose of caffeine?

Muffins are a breeze to prepare. Even if you find baking cumbersome or you're feeling lazy, muffins take little time from prepping to baking using ingredients you probably already have in your pantry.

The origin of the word muffin seems to be related to a french word moufflet which roughly means soft bread. It seems that some consider muffins to be quick-to-make bread, and if you prepared muffins before you will tend to agree that they don't require too much time to prepare.

To the basic muffin mix, you can add lots of variations and tweak the recipe to produce a new muffin sensation each time.

For this recipe's muffins, I decided to bring together two complementary flavors: caramel and chocolate.
So to make 4 of these muffins, you will need: 

• 1 large egg
• 110 g flour, 
• 3 g of baking powder
• 25 g brown sugar and 10 g white sugar (vanilla flavored if possible)
• 40 g melted butter
• 30 g milk or cream 
• 40 g salted caramel (recipe here)
• 20 g chocolate chips or chocolate chunks
• one tsp of bourbon or vanilla (I used bourbon)

Sift the flour, baking powder and salt. Separately, mix the milk and caramel.
Cream the butter and sugar in a different bowl, add the egg and blend until you have a homogeneous mixture.  

Now you just need to combine the liquid and dry ingredients. To the egg mix add 1/3 of the flour mix then add 1/2 the caramel and milk mixture. Keep alternating until you finish with the last 1/3 of the flour.

Pour the mixture in the lined muffin tin and bake in a preheated oven (180 degrees) for 16 to 20 min. They will be ready when they slightly spring back when touched!

The melting chocolate and the caramel sweetness go so well together

Now you have a sweet companion to nibble while you sip your warm morning coffee!