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Title: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 25, 2012, 01:29:08 pm
Double Choc Muffins

A healthy recipe, for Mandi, with love :-*

Wet Ingredients:
210ml skim milk
150g low-fat vanilla yoghurt
25g reduced-fat table spread (such as Nuttelex)
1 egg

Dry Ingredients:
65g caster sugar
20g cocoa
150g wholemeal SR flour
150g normal SR flour
60g chocolate chips

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and grease some muffin pans.
2. Mix wet ingredients for 30 seconds/speed 4.
3. Add dry ingredients, incorporate briefly with spatula, and then mix for 20 seconds/reverse + speed 3 or until just combined.
4. Spoon into muffin pans and bake for 15 minutes or until cooked through.

Notes:
The muffins and muffin mixture may look a little lumpy because of the wholemeal flour. This is completely normal.

My mixture made 16 muffins.
I have also made these using half milk and half white chocolate chips.

members' comments

deedub - they're yum, so moist! I didn't have w/meal SR flour so used all white. Next time I might use a few more choc chips to please the kids (not for me, you understand). Thanks Amy, was worth blowing the budget on the vanilla yoghurt.

dede - DS 5 gave the muffins a thumbs up and said they were very fantabulous. I just tried one myself and yum, very light and tasty.
Definitely will be making again. 5/5

Amy - Lovely ladies Mandi and Tan have done some calculations for us:
Mandi has worked out that each muffins is approximately 125 calories.
Tan worked out that if you make 16 muffins, each muffin is worth 3 points according to the Weight Watchers point system.



Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 25, 2012, 01:51:40 pm
Oh Amy I think I love you :D
Chocolate yummmmmmmm
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 25, 2012, 01:53:24 pm
Oh Amy I think I love you :D
Chocolate yummmmmmmm

 :D :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 26, 2012, 05:42:12 am
I made another batch of these today because the ones I baked yesterday have all disappeared!

I used half milk and half white chocolate chips this time ;)
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 26, 2012, 07:30:40 am
I have put these on my to do list Amy. I'm sure the kids will love them too. And maybe I can have one (or two, or three :D )
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: judydawn on June 26, 2012, 09:07:37 am
They look nice Amy - not too big either so a nice portion size.
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: jakodai on June 26, 2012, 09:19:01 am
I normally take a cupcake to work each day for morning tea, and I think these should be that muffin. Much healthier. I'll make these. When my oven gets fixed. I'm hoping it gets replaced.
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: deedub on June 27, 2012, 04:27:44 am
Just made these and they're yum, so moist! I didn't have w/meal SR flour so used all white. Next time I might use a few more choc chips to please the kids (not for me, you understand). Thanks Amy, was worth blowing the budget on the vanilla yoghurt 
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 04:57:25 am
Making these now Amy before the kids come home from school. They smell great.
(http://img.tapatalk.com/7cbbe782-84a2-a58a.jpg)
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 27, 2012, 05:17:29 am
Just made these and they're yum, so moist! I didn't have w/meal SR flour so used all white. Next time I might use a few more choc chips to please the kids (not for me, you understand). Thanks Amy, was worth blowing the budget on the vanilla yoghurt 

Lol deedub, I'm glad to hear it was money well blown! :-)) Thanks for the review and I'm so glad you like them! ;D

Mandi, your muffins look wonderful! :D I hope the kids like them ;) ;)
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 05:27:52 am
Will find out soon Amy. I might even eat one myself :D
Had to go and buy some vanilla yogurt as the kids have eaten all the yogurt in the house (4 litres in 6 days :o )
And then I had some yogurt and a banana for lunch. Yum
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 27, 2012, 05:40:28 am
Definitely :D

Lol shouldn't you expect that with five of them? :-))

A banana and some yoghurt isn't very much Mandi...
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 05:45:13 am
Was a big banana :D
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 27, 2012, 06:04:30 am
Glad to hear it lol :D
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 06:13:56 am
DS 5 gave the muffins a thumbs up and said they were very fantabulous :D

I just tried one myself and yum, very light and tasty.
Definitely will be making again.
5/5
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 27, 2012, 06:40:06 am
Oh I'm really pleased Mandi, thanks for the great feedback :D

And thank DS 5 for me too! ;)
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 06:48:29 am
For anyone interested I worked these out to be around 125 calories each.
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: deedub on June 27, 2012, 08:05:41 am
Well I've eaten 250 calories worth then . Is that bad?
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: cookie1 on June 27, 2012, 08:22:18 am
Not as bad as 375 calories worth. ;)
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 08:30:12 am
Lol.
Aunt Betty's choc chip muffins are around 420 calories each :o
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Tan on June 27, 2012, 08:59:01 am
i have worked this recipe out for anyone following weight watchers.
If you get 16 - they are 3 propoints each, which is pretty good!!!
 ;)
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 09:37:58 am
:)
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 27, 2012, 11:58:53 am
Wow, thanks Mandi and Tan for your calculations :D

Aunt Betty obviously wants porky nieces and nephews :-))

Mandi, how did you go about working out the calories? Was it difficult? I would like to do the same for some of my recipes if its not too hard. I failed maths at school because I'm not very good at number stuff :(

If you wanted less calories you could leave out the chocolate chips... but where's the fun in that? ;D
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on June 27, 2012, 12:09:50 pm
I use a calorie counter app on my iPhone, I just went through the ingredients list and found out the calories of each ingredient, added them all up then divided by 16 (the amount of muffins I made)
There is probable an app that is easier to work out but I haven't found one yet.
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 27, 2012, 12:10:57 pm
Oh... poopy. I don't have an iPhone :(
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Delightful Den on June 27, 2012, 12:34:39 pm
Amy this app myfitnesspal (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/) is available for any smartphone. It is also available on a website. You can track calories consumed and burned. It will let you add recipes and works out all the nutritional information from the ingredients.
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on June 27, 2012, 01:04:34 pm
Oh awesome! Thanks Dashingden :D
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: jakodai on July 12, 2012, 06:26:21 am
Calorie King Australia (http://www.calorieking.com.au/) is also pretty good for getting nutritional information for food. They have almost all foods in their database. To work out the calories per serve for a recipe you'd need to work out the total calories for each ingredient, add them all together, and then divide that total by the number of serves.
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on July 12, 2012, 06:29:33 am
Sounds like a lot of numbers would be involved in that calculation Amanda.... numbers are not my forte :-))
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: dede on July 12, 2012, 11:27:56 am
Double Choc Muffins

A healthy recipe, for Mandi, with love :-*

Wet Ingredients:
210ml skim milk
150g low-fat vanilla yoghurt
25g reduced-fat table spread (such as Nuttelex)
1 egg

Dry Ingredients:
65g caster sugar
20g cocoa
150g wholemeal SR flour
150g normal SR flour
60g chocolate chips

Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and grease some muffin pans.
2. Mix wet ingredients for 30 seconds/speed 4.
3. Add dry ingredients, incorporate briefly with spatula, and then mix for 20 seconds/reverse + speed 3 or until just combined.
4. Spoon into muffin pans and bake for 15 minutes or until cooked through.

Notes:
The muffins and muffin mixture may look a little lumpy because of the wholemeal flour. This is completely normal.

My mixture made 16 muffins.

Lovely ladies Mandi and Tan have done some calculations for us:
Mandi has worked out that each muffins is approximately 125 calories.
Tan worked out that if you make 16 muffins, each muffin is worth 3 points according to the Weight Watchers point system.

Thanks ladies :-*

it's not too hard to work out Amy. Here's a rough calculation for you.

210 Mls skim milk = 80 calories
150g low fat yogurt = 148 calories
25g reduced fat Marg = 72 calories
1 egg = 70 calories
65g caster sugar 264 calories
20g cocoa 80 calories
150g wholemeal SR flour 480 calories
150g normal SR flour 500 calories
60g chocolate chips 300 calories

Total 1994 calories divided by 16 = 124 calories per muffin
Title: Re: Healthier than your average chocolate muffin
Post by: Amy :-) on July 13, 2012, 12:02:23 am
Oh wow, that looks really clever Mandi :D
Thank you, I will have a go with one of my other recipes ;)