Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins

Happy Mother's Day, everybody!!
Today, I made some pumpkin chocolate chip muffins for my mom. It's also her birthday!!
This recipe is from the Joy of Baking website. Here it is:

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

1/4 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup (200 grams) granulated white sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

3/4 cup (180 ml) solid packed, canned pumpkin puree

1 cup (175 grams) semisweet chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS


Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C). Place rack in the middle of the oven. Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners or spray each cup with a non stick vegetable spray.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, ground spices, and salt. 

In the bowl of your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the vanilla extract. Scrape down the sides of the bowl.With the mixer on low speed, alternately add the flour mixture and pumpkin puree, in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour mixture.Fold in the chocolate chips.   

Fill the muffin cups evenly with the batter using two spoons or an ice cream scoop. Place in the oven and bake for about 18 -20 minutes, or until firm to the touch and a toothpick inserted in the center of one of the muffins comes out clean. Place on a wire rack to cool.

Makes 12 regular-sized muffins.

PS. I did not write the paragraph above, it's the exact words from the website. Credit to the author.

ENJOY!! :D

Strawberry Shortcake

This is a recipe for strawberry shortcake that I don't actually know where I got. It's really easy, and good. This recipe is great in the summer!! The second "Instructions" is for a different way to prepare it. I got that way from an American Girl recipe calendar a million years ago. (Actually more like 3 years ago)

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INGREDIENTS

Angel Food Cake

Strawberries

Whipped Cream                                                          


INSTRUCTIONS

Cut a slice of cake.
Wash and slice the strawberries.
Put the whipped cream on top of the angel food cake and strawberries. Enjoy!!

INSTRUCTIONS 2

Wash and slice the strawberries.
Put them in the bottom of a glass (it looks cool i f you use a wine glass).
 Cut the a slice of angel food cake into cubes.
Layer that on top of the strawberries.
Lay down another layer of strawberries, and another of angel food cake.
 Do that until the glass is full.
Put whipped cream on the top.

ENJOY!!

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Brownies!!

OK, I'm going to start off by saying that these are some of the best brownies ever. The recipe is from Ghirardelli.com. Ghirardelli makes really good chocolate! I would suggest going to their site, because they have some amazing recipes. I don't know for a fact that the other recipes are amazing, but this brownie recipe is epic. The recipe is called "Classic Chocolate Brownies"

INGREDIENTS
¹/₂ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
4 ounces dark chocolate baking bar
¹/₂ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 cup firmly packed light or dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
³/₄ cup plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
¹/₄ teaspoon baking powder
³/₈ teaspoon salt

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease and 8-inch square baking pan. Chop up the four ounces of chocolate into small pieces. In a double boiler, melt the butter and the chocolate. I did not have a double boiler so I put a smaller pot on top of a larger pot, which held the simmering water. Stir occasionally, until smooth. Remove the pot with the chocolate and butter from the other pot, and let it cool. In a bowl, mix together the flour, salt, and baking powder. Add the vanilla and sugar to the chocolate and butter. Mix well. Then, add the eggs to the chocolate/butter/vanilla/sugar mix. Stir that until you can't see the eggs anymore. Then, I poured the chocolate mixture into a bowl. I then poured the flour mixture into the chocolate mixture. Mix well. Add in the chocolate chips and stir. Pour into the baking pan. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
ENJOY!! 
PS. Make these, and tell me how they turn out in the comments!! These are extremely delicious!!!
PPS. Really.
PPPS. I'm not sure why the text is all high-lighted :(

My brownies still in the pan