Hi everyone!
My friends and I are having a get together tonight and I’ve been tasked with making dessert. We’ve recently uploaded some fantastic Irish recipes from our Bake with the Best campaign, where BakingMad.com brings you traditional and delicious desserts from around all of the United Kingdom. The Chocolate Chip Pound Cakes caught my eye (mainly because they have Baileys in them), but also because of their diddy nature and therefore easy to share out at a party.
When shopping for the ingredients unfortunately I couldn’t find the mini loaf cases. Asda and Sainsburys stock them however my Asda must not be very good. Instead I made do with some dark brown coloured muffin cases, so they are really Choc Chip Muffins!
First of all you pre-heat the oven to 180C, fan 160C, gas 4. Then you cream together 150g light muscovado sugar, 150g golden caster sugar, 225g softened unsalted butter and 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla extract. I used Billington’s sugar and Nielsen-Massey vanilla extract so my cakes are extra delicious.
Gradually beat in three eggs (I used an electric whisk to do this, much quicker) then fold in the 300g self-raising flour, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, 150ml single cream and 75ml Irish liqueur (otherwise known as Baileys). I had run out of self-raising flour so instead added 2 teaspoons of baking powder to 300g of plain flour and it worked fine!
The mixture looks a little wet at this point but keep mixing to make sure it is well combined.
Fold in 150g milk chocolate chips (yummmmm) then divide evenly between loaf cases or muffin cases. I managed to get 14 muffins from this mixture.
Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes until golden and springy to touch.
Leave the cakes to completely cool (which is difficult I know), then mix together about 100g of golden icing sugar (Billington’s do this type of icing sugar) with 3 tablespoons of Baileys. Scoop a little bit of icing with a tablespoon and drop in the centre of every muffin, leaving it to ooze out to the edges.
And there you have it. I snuck a muffin into work with me today to have with coffee, and I hate to say so myself but they are pretty damn good!
Check out the recipe here and let us know how it goes!
