Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins

This year we took the kids to go cherry picking.  It was fun and we ended up with a lot of cherries.

Nothing is better than fresh fruit.  Baby Boy loved eating cherries.  But we still could not eat them fast enough.  Baby Girl really likes to bake so we decided to make muffins.

This recipe is easy and Baby Girl was totally able to help.

Cherry Chocolate Chip Muffins

Ingredients:

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 3 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/3 cup (5 Tablespoons) unsalted butter; melted & cooled
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, large at room temperature 
• 1/3 cup sour cream, at room temperature
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
• 1 1/4 cup chopped cherries
• coarse sugar for sprinkling 

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425F.  Spray muffin pan with nonstick spray.
2. Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in large bowl.  
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the melted butter, oil, sugar, eggs, sour cream, milk and vanilla extract together until combined.  The mixture should be a pale yellow.  
4. Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and fold together until completely combined.  Make sure not over mix.  The batter will be thick.  
5. Fold the chocolate chips and cherries into the batter.  
6. Use a ice cream scoop to fill the muffin pan to the top.  Sprinkle with coarse sugar. 
7. Bake at 425F for 5 minutes.  Keeping the muffin pan in the oven reduce the oven temperature to 350F.  Continue to bake for 15-20 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.  Stick a toothpick in the center to check if the muffins are done.  If the toothpick comes out clean, the muffins are done.  
8. Allow to cool in pan for about 10-15 minutes.  

These muffins were good.  The cherries are just tart enough to go along with the chocolate chips.  

Keep baking freinds!

XOXO