Apple-Chocolate Muffins

Ingredients

• 100 g dark chocolate
• 2 Apples
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 100 g butter
• 200 ml milk (1.5% fat)
• 1 egg
• 100 g Sour cream
• 100 g sugar
• 250 g spelt flour
• 2 tsp cornstarch
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 45 g cocoa powder (3 tbsp)
• 1 pinch salt
• paper liners (for the muffin tin)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Chop chocolate into small pieces. Wash, dry, peel, quarter apples, remove cores and grate coarsely. Mix with lemon juice.

2. 2.

   Melt butter in a saucepan, add 50 g chocolate and melt together.

3. 3.

   Whisk milk, egg, sour cream, and sugar with a hand mixer. In a bowl combine spelt flour, cornstarch, baking powder, cocoa powder, and a pinch of salt. Add the milk mixture, chocolate mass, two‑thirds of the apple pieces and remaining chocolate pieces to the dry mix and stir into a smooth batter.

4. 4.

   Line a muffin tin with paper liners. Fill cups, smooth tops, and sprinkle remaining apple pieces on top. Bake at 180 °C (fan 160 °C; gas: level 2–3) in the middle rack for about 25–30 minutes.

5. 5.

   Let the apple‑chocolate muffins cool in the tin for 10 minutes, then remove and cool on a wire rack.