About a week ago, I came across a fellow blogger’s bacon, pecan & chocolate chunk muffin recipe that intrigued me. I decided to make my own version of it using what I had since I’m not a big fan of nuts.
Ingredients:
- 3 slices of bacon, chopped
- 2 cups of all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup of dark muscovado sugar
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 1/4 teaspoons of fresh thyme, chopped
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1/2 cup of butter, melted and cooled
- 3/4 cup of plain nonfat yogurt
- 1/2 cup of milk
- 6 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips
Preparation:
In a small pan over medium heat, brown bacon until crisp. Using a slotted spoon, transfer bacon to a plate lined with paper towel. Set aside and let it cool.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Line baking cups in the muffin pan.
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt and thyme.
In a medium bowl, whisk eggs, butter, yogurt and milk until blended.
In the dry ingredients bowl make a well in the center. Add your wet ingredients and stir. Fold in chocolate and bacon until combined. Do not overmix.
Spoon batter into the lined muffin cups and bake for 18-20 minutes or until the cake tester/toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Transfer muffins to cooling rack.
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I’ve heard of bacon in a cupcake, but not a muffin! Very cool. Thanks for the visit to my blog as well. 🙂 http://www.lindseywanek.com
Thanks Lindsey!
This is very intriguing! I love it!
The sweet and savory makes it really good! Some people think it’s weird but it’s actually pretty tasty!
I think it sounds and looks delicious!
You are too kind! 🙂
What and what?! Anne, just stumbled upon this post — how intriguing! What does it taste like? The bacon and chocolate combo? Would it be more of a dessert, or something savory … or something entirely different altogether? Inquiring fellow food sisters wanna know =)
Exciting!
Hi Christina, this item was very popular among the men –something about bacon and chocolate together… I thought it was a pretty tasty breakfast item. It was great with my morning coffee. It’s not really dessert or something savory. It’s a combo of both. The feedback I got was they were sweet, chocolatey and smoky (not overly salty). It was mainly a chocolate muffin with bacon accompaniment. 🙂
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