Chocolate Cinnamon Muffins

Here's another great muffin recipe that I wanted to share with you.

These would be a great addition to a Cinco De Mayo celebration with the addition of the cinnamon, or they would great for a Mother's Day brunch!

I love chocolate and cinnamon, and the combination here is spectacular!  Hope you enjoy these as much as I did.

Leave me a message and tell me what is your favorite muffin?


Here's how to make these wonderful muffins.

You will need:  flour, unsweetened cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon, salt, brown sugar, semi-sweet chocolate chips, eggs, milk, and oil.

Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl.  I used a special cinnamon that I got from a specialty spice shop called Savory Spice Shop.  Check them out, they have wonderful items.

Add sugar and chocolate chips.

Beat eggs in a small bowl. 

Beat in milk and oil. 

Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture.  Stir just until combined.

Spoon in to your muffin tins.

Bake for 20 min.  Don't over bake these or they will get tough quickly.

Yummy!  Chocolatey!  Cinnamony!

Chocolate Cinnamon Muffins

Ingredients:

1 ½ c All Purpose Flour

½ c unsweetened cocoa

1 T baking powder

1 t. ground cinnamon

¼ t. salt

½ c light brown sugar, packed

1 c semisweet chocolate chips

2 eggs

1 c milk

6 T. canola oil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a large bowl.  Add sugar and chocolate chips.

Beat eggs in a small bowl.  Beat in milk and oil.  Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the egg mixture.  Stir just until combined, don’t over mix.

Fill 12 greased or lined muffin cups.  Bake for 20 min.

Makes 12 muffins.

Product Review: Market Classics Soup Mix - Cheese Tortellini

I've been working so hard...I mean soooo hard over the past few weeks, I think my job is trying to kill me!

Needless to say I haven't really been feelin' the cooking too much during the week.  I roll in the house around 7pm, and I'm pooped I tell you, pooped!

So it was a cold dreary day here last week ...(Hey, isn't this sunny LA?) so I needed some hearty sustenance...quick.

So a friend of mine had given me this soup to try.  On the label it says that it cooks in 30 min.
Good enough! Sold!  Dinner's on!!

Market Classics Soup Mix - in a Cheese Tortellini flavor.  Purchased at Cost Plus  You may know them as World Market, cause I've seen the store named differently in other states.  But here it's just plain ole Cost Plus.

This makes a lot of soup!  So I had enough leftovers for me and MGG to take to work...and then some! So be prepared...it is really 8 servings!

This soup was actually good for a quick packaged soup.  The sodium content was low.  The flavor was like a minestrone soup, very tasty! 

So let's make soup. 

I added some shredded roasted chicken I had left over.  It gave it some more ummmph.
I would also suggest adding some vegetables.  Maybe some green beans, or corn, or even some beans.  I didn't but I wish I had to give it a little more substance.

So follow the directions to mix up the soup. Bring it to a boil.  Turn down the heat and add your tortellini and chicken (if you like!).

Simmer about 15 min.

I must say I looks really tasty!

I actually had two small bowls full myself!

At $3.99 a package this is definitely a good buy for a weeknight dinner you need to have ready in a pinch! 
Here's a link for you!  Market Classics Cheese Tortellini Soup Mix

Birthday Bash!

Did everyone have a wonderful Easter?

This year, Easter fell on my Birthday!  What to do?  MGG didn't want me cooking all day on my special day..sooo we went out and celebrated instead!

To my surprise he took me to the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.  The El Capitan is a "themed" theatre which debuted on May 3, 1926, as "Hollywood's First Home of Spoken Drama." It's an amazing old building filled with the ornate art deco styling in which Disney has restored it to it's former grandeur.

The next surprise was that we were going to see "African Cats".  Disney's new documentary about two sets of cat families and their trials through life in Africa.  A MUST SEE!

We even saw some live wild animals on stage.
How cute are they?

So for the encore we had a wonderful dinner at Trastevere across the street in the Hollywood & Highland Center.

Delish...that's all I have to say. 
See for yourself.

MGG got Linguine Pescatora and I got Bistecchina alla Fiamma.

Fabulous!

Another great year...another wonderful birthday!

Who's this??

Next week we'll celebrate Easter!  I won't tell if you won't!