White Chocolate Maple Muffins

Blessed is the day when I returned to my Muffin and cupcakes recipe book and had an oven to work with. I've just baked a batch of White Chocolate Maple Muffins for the weekend board game session I hold on our cottage. There's only 9, so that's enough for me, my brother and maybe my dad too.
I made these a year ago and my brother loved them, so I guess he'll like them even today.

White chocolate is not chocolate, it's actually only fat with sugar, so that's why it's so good. Its very sweet taste complements the bitterness of the walnuts here and since you don't use that much sugar in the dough anyway, it makes a pleasantly sweet product in the end. And what's surprising, the recipe asks for only one egg!

Music to bake to Vol. 2

Once again I turn to the music when I cannot bake. After the mild success when the last post was the most read post on my blog (at least before I started announcing posts on Reddit), I found myself thinking, as I was listening to some new music, that there are more songs to stimulate one's baking atmosphere. The lack of proper baking action in the past couple days made me bit anxious.

Unfortunately, my last.fm subscription for this month has failed so no radio as of last Monday. I gotta check not only my recent plays but my archives to come up with something mindblowing.

Chocolate Raspberry Friands

I was moving from Barcelona back to Prague and I couldn't bake anything and right now it's the middle of the week so I can't bake anyway (I'm on a diet) but since I'm finally home, I decided to post my favourite recipe for a cupcake. Well, it's not exactly a cupcake, it's a friand - an Australian and New Zelandian alternative to French financier, a small cake (according to wiki). This one is really really good, it's as easy as a cupcake but it has no frosting. Instead, you use raspberries to top the surface.

There's one thing about raspberries: they are delicious!

Especially with chocolate.