Like I said last month, for some reason, recently all these We Should Cocoa themes keep bringing me back to muffins. I went from Nigella’s chocolate chocolate muffins, to honey banana chocolate chip muffins, and now to these mango muffins. Now.. I could have made it a quick bread instead and made it into a loaf, but part of me wanted to stay in this muffin groove because I love muffins.
The downfall with muffins is I have a hard time just eating one and yesterday I ate far too many muffins for one human being. I had one for breakfast this morning too. The mango/chocolate combination is perfect.
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Speaking of mangoes, my brother has requested for his birthday that I make him a mango cake. I have several recipes pulled. Besides the “mango cake” he didn’t give any other suggestions on flavors or type of cake, so that’s free reign for me. Does anyone reading this have some ideas for recipes that might work? So far I have:
Tres Leches Cake with Mango Whipped Cream
Chunky Fresh Mango Cake
Mango Cream Cake
Any other ones you suggest I look at?
Spiced Mango Chocolate Chip Muffins
(source)
Ingredients
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground ginger
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup applesauce
1 1/2 cups mango, chopped
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350. In a medium bowl whisk together the eggs, vegetable oil, and applesauce.
2. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, sugar, brown sugar, and baking powder.
3. Once mixed together, pour the wet mixture over the dry mixture. Stir together to get rid of any dry clumps. Once well mixed, fold in the mango and the chocolate chips.
4. Spoon into a prepared muffin tin. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Remove from tin and place on a wire rack until completely cooled.
* makes a dozen muffins
* Besides We Should Cocoa, this dish is being shared with Wednesday Whatsits & Cast Party Wednesday
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Oh my – this looks decadent! Living in Miami we are in Mango season, and I am thinking this is going to have to be my next cooking project. Blog Comment #1 – SuziLB
They were delightful! You should definitely make some!
You are going to get a name for yourself with all this muffin baking. These look really good and nicely moist too – I can’t bear dry cakes and muffins. If you are still looking for mango cake recipes, the one I made for this challenge was very nice.
Have made these at least a dozen times, the mango tree in our back yard is in full blown again, and it the winds hold off, it’ll be a great crop once again. Found that we need to harvest when ripe — sometime in the fall, it’s tricky getting them just at perfection before the birds decide they need them first. Mangoes dropped on the ground immediately attract ants from miles away – smart ants. We freeze chunks to use later — in this recipe. Thanks for posting this — a family favorite.