LOVE Message Chocolate Chunk Muffins

The sun finally came out from the rainy sky. This weekend is going to be sunny, good :)

Here is another Valentine's Day recipe!
I posted about these muffins last year (if you could find), but without recipe, so I will translate it now.



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LOVE Message Chocolate Chunk Muffins

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 1hr (15min preparation, 25min cooking, 20min decoration)
Number of servings: 4 medium (2.4inches/6cm) muffin cups

Ingredients:
A
* 100g (3.5oz.) all-purpose flour
* 20g (0.7oz.) cocoa powder
* 1 tsp. baking powder
* a pinch of salt
60g (2.1oz.) butter (softened)
60g (2.1oz.) sugar
1 egg
70cc milk
few drops of vanilla extract
25g (0.8oz.) chopped walnut
40g (1.4oz.) chopped chocolate bar

Decoration
chocolate bars
mini heart chocolates or heart candies
chocolate pen
ganache or chocolate to attach the message bars

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). In a large bowl, whisk A together and set aside.




2. In another bowl, beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg, milk and vanilla extract in sequence, mixing well after each addition.


3. Add the dry ingredients (1.) in the liquid ingredients (2.) a small amount at a time, and with a rubber spatula, gently stir to blend. (Do not overmix!) Then stir in the chopped walnut and chocolate bar.

4. Spoon the mixture into muffin cups. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool the muffins.




5. Prepare the LOVE message chocolate bars.




6. Attach the message chocolate bars on to the muffins.




My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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Have a good weekend!

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"S"

Hi! It is raining & cold again. It reminds me of writing the same thing in this season last year on my posts! Ha-ha!!!

Anyway, jose passed me a fun game!

Here's the deal:
If you want to play, leave a comment on this post letting me know, and I’ll assign you a letter. You write about ten things you love that begin with your assigned letter, and post it at your place. When people comment on your list, you give them a letter, and the chain continues on and on.

I got the letter "S"!



1) Sparkle
I love bling-bling stuff ;)

2) Sports Club
I go to the gym almost every day since last August to stay healthy! Now it is becoming part of my life!?

3) Sushi Rolls
I think I make sushi rolls once in a short while!

4) Shopping
I love shopping clothes, especially at Shibuya 109! I love there because they have cheap but good clothes! Also, I love to shop at a supermarket :) I shop every day and get only food that I use on the day.

5) Sausage
I love to cook food using sausage because it's my boyfriend's favorite food. It makes him happy!

6) Sweet Stuff
On the contrary, this is something that my boyfriend hates... but I love sweet stuff! I wish I could eat more without getting fat!!! Mostly, I hold back :(

7) Sisters
I have 2 younger sisters. I don't say I love them (we are not buddy-buddy) but I think I do by tacit agreement ;)

8) Singing Songs at Karaoke
I love Karaoke! I think I can stay there for more than 3 hours!!! But again, my boyfriend doesn't like it, so I just go there once in a loooooong while :(

9) Something Special, Being Special
I love something special! Maybe this is why I love to receive a prize at a cookoff. And I am a jealous girlfriend who wants to be special for my boyfriend! Ha-ha.

10) Single-Lens Reflex Camera
As for #10, I first wrote "Smiles" but I will change it because I also have an unpleasant memory of it. (You know, if you have read...) Anyway, I love my camera, Olympus E-500. I use it almost every day! I just took some pics of my dinner and remembered!

I wrote them down off the top of my head, so I feel like missing something important. Hmm.

Okey-dokey, see you again!

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Action Painting Cookies

Do you know Jackson Pollock?
He is an American abstract expressionist painter.

Last weekend, I baked some cookies and used his "drip" technique to decorate them! Don't you think this is easy and COOL!?



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Action Painting Cookies

Difficulty: Easy
Time: 2.5hrs (15min preparation, 15min cooking, 2hrs ready in)
Number of servings: 20 cookies

Ingredients:
60g (2.1oz.) butter (softened)
30g (1oz.) sugar
1 egg yolk
A
* 95g (3.3oz.) all-purpose flour
* 2 tbsp. cocoa powder
* a pinch of baking powder
chocolate pens or colored icing of your choice

Directions:
1. Beat butter and sugar until creamy, add egg yolk and mix well.




2. Sift A in 1. and mix well.





3. Press and shape dough into a log (1.5 inches in diameter) and wrap in plastic wrap or waxed paper. Refrigerate dough for at least 2 hours until very firm.


4. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Cut in 0.25-inch slices and place on a greased cookie sheet about an inch apart.



5. Bake at 350F (180C) for 12-15 minutes. Cool the cookies on the sheet and action-paint them with chocolate pens or colored icing of your choice.


6. These are the chocolate pens I used.





My original recipe in Japanese is here.
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It is going to rain this afternoon (after a long time) and temperatures are predicted to turn much colder in the weekend!
Let us keep warm!!!

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