Cooking with an 8 year old - Chocolate Chip Muffins

All 3 of our kids love to cook and we love to watch the Food Network as a family.  This leads our children to often have Iron Chef contests when we cook and Big Sissy often narrates her cooking/baking and calls it "Cooking with an 8 year old."  So welcome to my new series... Cooking with an  8 year old.

So Big Sissy really loves Gal in the Middle's pumpkin chocolate muffins and wanted to take them to school for the Valentine's Day Party.  As much as I love the muffins too, I told her no, because I thought orange, pumpkin flavored muffins were probably not the right thing for Valentine's Day... it was just a hunch a I had. 

So using those muffins as inspiration, we went on a mission to find a chocolate chip muffin recipe.  Thanks to allrecipes.com and the reviews from previous bakers, we were able to find a pretty yummy chocolate chip muffin recipe; even though we still love Gal in the Middle's. 

Ingredients

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup white sugar

3 t. baking powder

1/2 t. salt

1 cup milk

1 t. vanilla

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 egg

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

3 T. white sugar

2 T. brown sugar

Directions

Heat oven to 400 degrees.  Line muffin tin with baking cups.

In medium bowl, combine flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, chocolate chips, and salt; mix well. 

In small bowl, combine milk, oil, and egg; blend well.

Add liquid ingredients all at once to dry ingredients; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened (batter will be lumpy).

Fill muffin cups 2/3 full. 

Sprinkle tops of muffins before baking with combination of 3 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons brown sugar.

Bake for 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 

Cool 1 minute before removing from plan. 

Enjoy!!