Choco Apricot Muffins Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin pan, or line with paper muffin cups. Place apricots into a small bowl, and pour the boiling water over them. Let stand for 5 minutes.
• In a medium bowl stir together the flour, sugar, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, whisk together the melted butter, oil, buttermilk and egg. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and stir until just blended. It is okay for the batter to have some lumps. Drain water from apricots, and mix them into the batter. Spoon into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake for 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top springs back when lightly pressed. Cool in the pan over a wire rack.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Grease or put paper liners in 12-cup muffin pan.
• In a small bowl, mix together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
• In a large bowl, mix together sugar, eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Mix in dry ingredients just until combined. Fold in chocolate and apricots. Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Topping: sprinkle with sugar.
• Bake in preheated oven for 22 minutes or until a tester inserted into center comes out clean. Let muffins cool in pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Transfer to rack and let cool completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Grease and flour 12 cup muffin tin.
• In a large bowl whisk the first 6 ingredients. In a small bowl mix the sour cream, melted butter, eggs and extracts until smooth. Add the wet ingredients to the dry until combined, fold in chocolate chips, nuts, and dried apricots.
• For the Filling:.
• Combine the sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Spoon half the batter in prepared muffin tin. Place a dollop of preserves in center of the batter and top with remaining batter. Sprinkle with sugar mixture and bake until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool in tim for 5 minutes and transfer to cooling rack to cool off completely.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and chocolate in a mixing bowl.
• Make a depression in the middle of the flour mixture.
• In a separate bowl combine milk, butter and egg and stir with a wire whisk.
• Add to flour mixture and stir until blended.
• Apricot preserves are not added to the mixture.
• Fill muffin pan with cupcake liners or spray with cooking spray.
• Fill with 1 Tbl.
• of batter and then add 2 tsp.
• of apricot preserves to the middle of batter.
• Then top with remaining batter.
• Sprinkle sugar on top.
• Bake at 400 degrees for 20-22 minutes until lightly browned.

Steps:

• Soak apricots in water for 5 minutes. In a large bowl, cream sugar and butter until fluffy. Add sour cream; mix well. Combine dry ingredients; stir into creamed mixture just until moistened. Drain apricots, discarding liquid. Fold apricots, orange zest and nuts into batter. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 400° for 18-20 minutes or until muffins test done. Cool 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.