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I’m getting more confident about baking. I wanted to something with half a bag of dark chocolate chips, so I decided to make some chocolate chip muffins. I found a couple of recipes that looked doable, and took the best elements of both to combine them in my recipe. I ended up with nearly perfect muffins–tender and moist.

• 2 cups flour
• 1/3 heaping cup of brown sugar
• 1/3 heaping cup of white sugar
• 3/4 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 cup chocolate chips (I actually do not recommend dark chocolate chips–they have a distinctly bitter, fruity note that just wasn’t for me)
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup veggie oil
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1/2 cup sour cream

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and grease a standard muffin tin.
2. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the flour, salt and baking powder
3. In another bowl, lightly beat the eggs, then stir in the sugars, vanilla, oil and sour cream.
4. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture. Stir to combine. Mixture should resemble a very thick batter.
5. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts, if using.
6. Bake for 15-20 minutes.
7. Let cool slightly before attempting to remove from muffin tin.

There is a free virtual Photoshop seminar going on here today. Free! There are classes for just about every kind of Photoshop user–from professional photographers to digital artists to Photoshop newbs. And it’s free! I will be attending most of the afternoon chunk. Hope I “see” you there.