Mini Chocolate Muffin w/ Carmel Filling

These Mini Chocolate Muffin w/ Carmel Filling are some of the best and easiest desserts I have ever made. They are perfect if you’re having people over and want to whip something good and easy up, perfect finger food. Not to mention you don’t see very many recipes like these…

How to Make Mini Chocolate Muffin w/ Carmel Filling:

First thing I do is set the over to 375° F. Then, I put all my dry ingredients together. So the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. I whisk these all together in a medium sized bowl.

Then, I put all my wet ingredients in a large bowl, the milk, oil, eggs and vanilla. Mix those well and add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. 

Last but not least, I add the chocolate chips to the batter. I recommend using mini chocolate chips because there’s not a lot of space in the mini cupcake individual tins, not to mention the Rolos, but we’ll get to those in a sec ;).

If you don’t have mini chocolate chips, you can chop up whatever chocolate you do have, like I did. We had a bunch of left over easter candy, and there happened to be a lot of chocolate so I put it to good use! I used a mix of dark and milk chocolate. The batter should look like this (before you mix in the chocolate) ↓

Alright next thing to do is line your mini cupcake pan with mini cupcake liners. Also, these next step is kind of a pain, but it’s necessary. Take out all the Rolos from their foil wrapping.

If you don’t know what Rolos are… I’m sorry. Just kidding! They’re pretty much a chocolate candy with caramel filling. Packaging looks like this ↓ And yes, these were also Easter candy :)).

Filling the Tray!:

Now my trick on how to load these babies, take one unfoiled rolo and dip the bottom in the batter. Swipe it through the batter, like it’s a tortilla chip and you’re going in for some guacamole. Weird analogy, but you get my point.

Then, I kind of smash the bottom with the batter into the paper liner, like so…

Then, I use two spoons and cover the Rolo with batter. It’s gonna get messy, but it’s so worth it.

Cooked vs. Uncooked. Told ya it gets messy. I cook them for about 8 minutes.

A little tip is to make a control, meaning one muffin without a Rolo on the inside. So when you stick your toothpick in you can actually tell if it’s done cooking or not. Otherwise, you’ll just be getting carmel on your toothpick!

Let them cool and you’re done baking your mini chocolate muffins with carmel filling! This recipe makes in total around 36 mini muffins. You can use the batter for normal muffins, just would have to cook longer. Also, feel free to add frosting, and make these bad boys cupcakes!

Happy Baking!

-Emma :)))

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Yield: 36

Mini Chocolate Muffin w/ Carmel Filling

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These little guys are some of the best and easiest desserts I have ever made. They are perfect if you're having people over and want to whip something good and easy up, perfect finger food. Not to mention you don't see very many recipes like these...

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 8 minutes

Total Time 23 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups flour
• ¾ cup sugar
• ½ cup cocoa
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• ¼ tsp. salt
• ¾ cup milk
• ½ cup canola oil or melted butter
• 2 large eggs
• 1 ½ tsp. vanilla
• ½ cup mini chocolate chips
• 1 package of Rolos (9.9 oz.)

Instructions

1. Set oven to 375° F
2. Combine dry ingredients, flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, and salt into a medium bowl.
3. In a large bowl, whisk together milk, oil, eggs and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients and mix well. Add chocolate chips.
4. Remove Rolos from foil.
5. Dip the bottom of Rolos into the batter and put into the paper-lined muffin cup. Fill the rest of the muffin cup with batter.
6. Continue this process until all of the cups are filled and then bake for around 8 minutes, checking your control with a toothpick (see notes).
7. Let cool and you're done!

Notes

This recipe can be used as a chocolate cupcake recipe as well, just add frosting! Also, they don't have to be minis, you can use a normal sized muffin tin, juts cook longer.

The control is a muffin cup with out a Rolo in it, know where it is in the tray so you can check this muffin and know when they're done cooking!

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

36

Serving Size:

Mini Cupcake
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 77Total Fat: 3.9gSaturated Fat: 0.7gCholesterol: 11mgSodium: 25mgCarbohydrates: 10.1gFiber: 0.5gSugar: 5.2gProtein: 1.3g