I’ve said before that despite evidence to the contrary, I don’t really like to bake. I only do it because I like baked goods and so far as I know, you either have to bake them or buy them. And really it’s better if you bake them.
Well today I wanted to use up some buttermilk and I figured, might as well make something for breakfast tomorrow–after all, Josh will be back late tonight, he’ll want to sleep in tomorrow morning; might as well have breakfast waiting for him already. Muffins sounded about right.
Now, I am not the Muffin Man of this apartment. That would be Josh. Josh is the Muffin Man. He makes delicious blueberry lemon muffins and someday I’ll get him write a guest post on that. But he’s not here today. So the muffin making is up to me.
I have this recipe I’ve been wanting to try for a while–raspberry cream cheese muffins—from MyRecipes. Looked delicious AND they were healthy. I adapted the recipe a bit, though, to make it fit my style more. And by “fit my style more” I mean, “I added dark chocolate.” Mmmm. Chocolate. I also added the seeds of half a vanilla bean and a bit more of a nice rum-based Tahitian vanilla. But what’s really important here is the chocolate. Let’s not forget that. Continue reading