White Chocolate and Strawberry Centre Muffins

The danger of working across the road from a supermarket is that every time I pop in for a pint of milk after work I always end up buying other bits and pieces too.  My current obsession seems to strawberries, which is kind of stupid seeing as I have 8 strawberry plants on the balcony.  This means there will be a few post coming up featuring said berry!

White Chocolate Strawberry Centre Muffins

375g SR flour

1 ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda

150g golden caster sugar

250g white chocolate, roughly chopped

3 large eggs, beaten

150g butter, melted

200g natural yoghurt

2 tbsp milk

12 strawberries, hulled

1 tbsp granulated sugar for sprinkling

Preheat the oven to 200C/fan 180C and line a 12 hole muffin tin with paper cases.

Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar and chocolate in a large bowl with a pinch of salt.  Beat together the eggs, melted butter, yogurt and milk, then stir briskly into the dry ingredients.  Don’t worry if it’s a bit lumpy.  Its important not to overmix, otherwise the muffins will lose their lightness.

Divide the mixture among the cases, then push a strawberry into each muffin, making sure its completely enclosed by the batter.  Sprinkle with granulated sugar, then bake for 20-25 mins until golden.  Cool in the tin for 5 mins before lifting on to a rack to cool completely.

Makes 12

Delicious, June 11

These are pretty delicious muffins, but then anything with white chocolate and strawberries will always score pretty highly on my list ;0)

I followed the recipe to the letter and used the mixture to make 12 muffins, as you can see these made for some pretty big muffins, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but next time I'd maybe stretch the mixture further and make one or two more.