Fifth time lucky muffins

By rkhooks • Oct 31st, 2007 • Category: Dessert, Dulce de leche, Food, La Cocotte

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The days have been zooming past extremely quickly. Falling like the leaves on the trees at the mo. They’ve been filled up with plenty of delicious (very exciting) things. I was busy making plenty of Christmas food for a Elle à table (hitting French newstands in November), working on Christmas biscuits for La Cocotte, writing recipes and working on my new baby plus there’s the usual stuff like keeping up with the Parisian social scene…

So it took me five goes to get this recipe right but finally I’m happy with it. Fingers crossed you might see it published one day ;-)

Dulcheese muffins
Makes 12

Muffin mixture

270g flour
2 tsp baking powder
50g sugar
2 eggs
100ml milk
80ml vegetable oil
250g dulce de leche
150g chopped walnuts

Cheesecake mixture

125g ricotta
75g cream cheese (i.e. carré frais)
2 tbsp crème fraiche
2 tbsp sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla essence
3 tbsp flour

Decoration
100g dulce de leche for the decoration
50g chopped walnuts

Preheat the oven to 180°c
Muffin mixture
Sift flour and baking powder together. Combine sugar, eggs, milk, oil and dulce de leche. Mix until smooth. Fold in the flour and chopped walnuts.

Cheesecake mixture
Combine all the ingredients together and mix until smooth and ‘lump free’.

Put a heaped tablespoon of the muffin mixture, followed by a heaped teaspoon of dulce de leche and then finally a heaped tablespoon of the cheesecake mixture. With a toothpick or the tip of a knife swirl the mixtures around. Finish by sprinkling some chopped walnuts and drizzling with some more dulce de leche. Bake for 25-30 minutes.

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9 Responses »

  1. salobrena on October 31st, 2007 at 8:06 pm:

    Omg these look like heaven right here on earth!

  2. onestopcook on October 31st, 2007 at 8:30 pm:

    Your making me hungry!! I have to print this and get my muffin pan out. I love to bake and this sounds very tasty. Thanks.

  3. linda on November 1st, 2007 at 12:04 am:

    Wow, they look sooo delicious!

  4. amooshi on November 3rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm:

    Thanks for ‘doin’ it again’ with dulce de leche. Will give those a try VERY soon!
    besitos

  5. joy of cooking on November 4th, 2007 at 6:46 pm:

    looking good! When is the next cocotte event?

  6. Tartelette on November 24th, 2007 at 2:12 am:

    Absolutely mouth watering! It’s got all the thigs I love: dulce de leche, nuts, cream cheese,hmmhmmhmmm! Great recipe!

  7. MariannaF on May 6th, 2008 at 3:20 pm:

    WOW, these look so scrumptiously delicious!!!Mmmm, totally mouthwatering. Definately need to try this, if I have the time I’ll probably even make them tonight!

  8. recette de cuisine on October 1st, 2009 at 3:53 pm:

    Merci pour cette recette de cuisine, sympa =)

  9. Alascyr Santos on May 23rd, 2010 at 1:07 am:

    Delicious!! I know I’m gonna that one of my favorite dessert! thank you.

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