Recipe – chocolate and tiger muffins

source: http://tarttokig.wordpress.com/2013/07/28/recipe-chocolate-and-tiger-muffins/

for 12 normal sized cupcakes:
Basic cupcake recipe:

• 125 g butter
• 240 g flour (without rising agent!)
• 180 g granulated sugar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 200 g milk
• 1 egg

1.. Preheat the oven to 200°C/390 F.
2.. Melt the butter in a saucepan and put it to the side to cool.
3.. Mix together flour,sugar and baking powder.
4.. Add the milk to the cooled butter, then add the egg.
5.. Pour the egg-milk-butter mixture to the rest and stir to a smooth batter.
6.. Fill the cupcake liners about 2/3 up. Put the liners in a cupcake pan first for best results.
7.. Bake for 15-20 minutes in the middle of the oven and then put the muffins on a cooling rack until completely cooled.

To make chocolate muffins, simply substitute 30 g of the flour with cacao and add 100 g of dark chocolate chopped into large pieces to the flour (step 3). When they had cooled, I made some chocolate ganache for topping. For 12 muffins; bring 75 g of heavy cream to a boil, remove from heat and add 150 g of finely chopped chocolate (I liked it best with a 50 % cacao content). Stir until smooth and then distribute the ganache equally on the muffins.
For the tiger muffins, make the batter as usual, but use only 200 g of flour. Divide the batter equally in two bowls(I used a scale to get equal amounts in each bowl), and add 20 g of cacao to one and 20 g flour + 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar to the second. Use a small spoon and add one dollop at a time to each muffin case to get the marbled effect.