Choc mini muffins

This recipe is out of The Age's "epicure chocolate" cookbook. And these little muffins are very easy and just delicious!

Ingredients:
1 cup cold water
1 cup sugar
125g butter
2 generous tbsp cocoa
3/4 tsp bi-carb soda
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups self-raising flour

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180c.

Combine water, sugar, butter, cocoa and soda in a large saucepan. Bring to the boil slowly. Simmer for 5 mins and cool. Add the eggs and sifted flour and mix well. Place mixture in prepared mini muffin trays (I use paper patties to more easily remove the muffins afterwards). Cook for 10-15 mins.

When they've cooled, I dip them in a chocolate ganache. For this I use 100g dark cooking choc, 1 cup cream and a tsp of butter. Melt over a saucepan of water.



Enjoy!