Heritage Home | Family Genealogy | Recipes Home   Desserts, Cakes, Cookies & Pies   Vickie's Chocolate-Chip Muffins Made from scratch, these are the perfect winter morning warm up your tummy treat. It goes great with a good cup of coffee, big fluffy slippers, a comfortable chair resting by a crackling fire to warm your toes.   Preparation Time: 30 to 45 minutes Makes 12 Muffins   Ingredients: 1 ½ cup cake mix * 1 tspn baking powder ¼ tspn salt ½ cup sugar 1 cups (12-ounce package) milk chocolate chips 1 tspn vanilla ½ stick butter or margerine (softened not melted) ¾ cup milk ¼ cup vegetable oil 1 egg Small amount of mini-milk chocolate chips (used for topping)   Directions: Pre-heat oven to 400° Mix dry ingredients (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and chocolate chips) in medium mixing bowl with a fork. Mix wet ingredients (butter, vanilla, egg, milk and oil) in a separate smaller bowl. Mix with a fork until light and fluffy. Using a mixing spoon to make a small hole in the center of the dry mixture. Pour wet mixture into the hole you made in the dry mixture. Mix well with a fork (Do not use a mixer) Use a tablespoon to spoon cookie dough into a greased muffin sheet. Sprinkler a small amount of the mini-chocolate chips on the top of the muffins before baking. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. Cool slightly (for about 5 minutes) and remove from cookie sheet onto paper towel sheets.   Serve: Warm You can reheat your muffins in a toaster oven, or for 5 to 10 seconds in a microwave   Alternatives: You can exchange the cake mix for Bisquick or all-purpose flour * Both of these alternatives will create a slightly different texture, but your muffins will be just as good. You can also use chocolate cake mix to create chocolate chocolate-chip muffins You can exchange the sugar for Splenda You can use semi-sweet chocolate chips, but I think the milk chocolate is much better. You can replace the chocolate chips with any kind of berries; such as blueberries, strawberries and so on. Just make sure you completely drain the berries before adding them to the mix.

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