The muffin recipe was given to me by the lovely Cathy O'Boyle and the rest I came up with, with the help of the internet as usual.
Ingredients-
Muffins(makes about 6 large ones)-
150g flour
50g caster sugar
1 tsp baking soda
a pinch of salt
50g butter
100ml milk
1 egg
115g milk chocolate
Some more milk/white/dark chocolate for chunks
Centre-
200g chocolate
200ml single cream
Method-Centre:
1. Melt chocolate in a double boiler or bain-marie (or a bowl over a pot of boiling water).
2. Whisk in the cream until it's smooth.
3. Let the mixture cool, then make it into little sausage shapes the size of the top of your thumb-ish. Wrap them in cling film, put in a freezer bag and freeze solid!
Muffins:
1. Melt the chocolate and butter separately and let cool a little.
2. Mix together the dry ingredients.
3. Mix together the egg and milk.
4. Mix the wet into the dry (including the chocolate and butter) gently and until just combined, don't over do it. Then add as much chocolate chunks as you like, about 250g more is plenty. I tend to just bash up a couple of chocolate bars.
5. Put the mixture into fairly big muffin molds, pouring in half then adding the frozen 'centres' then topping up making sure they are covered.
6. Put the muffins into an oven at 250°C for about 5 minutes then put the heat down to 180°C for about 15 more. Then take the muffins out and allow to cool.
A few notes needed on these I feel. The center is actually just a chocolate ganache, so when the muffins are cold it is more of a creamy centre, when they're warm though it is melty and nice!Also you may notice I put bits of chocolate on the top of the muffins-not a good idea, because when the centre, is actually in the centre it falls into the melty bit, which is nice, but doesn't look as good!
Oh and obviously if you just make them without the centre, they make lovely chocolate chunk muffins, which are tasty too!
Other than that, enjoy!
