Chocolate rye muffins

These chocolate muffins are delicious and tasty, and the best of all - There is a little touch of rye flour and rue flakes, that gives them a bit chunchy consistence and a nice flavor!

We use a lot of rye flour and spelt flour in Scandinavia. If you're interested in reading a bit more of the way we use them, here's a link to Chad Robertsons article Baker in the Rye in Foodarts (April 2012), where he describes his culinary excursion Scandinavia and Eastern-Europe.

I have done some changes to the original recipe, which can be found in Alt for Damerne-magazine (2 august 2012). I found the original muffins a bit heavy and dry, so I replaced a half of the rye flour mix with spelt flour, and added some sugar and margarine / butter ... with these changes the chocolate rye muffins turned out as luscious and tasty, with a touch of rye-taste!

Rye chocolate muffins are not too sweet, making them a perfect sidedish for a packed lunch or a picnic, or just a healthy semi-sweet bite to an afternoon tea or a  coffee break.

You will get about 15-18 muffins.

Ingredients: 

25 gr of yeast

½ liter of lukewarm water

200 gr  ryebread mix (consists of coarse- and fine rye flour & rye flakes)

200 gr of fine spelt flour

125 gr durum wheat flour 

150 g of dark chocolate

1 dl sugar

100 g butter or margarine

Instructions:

• Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water.

• Stir sugar, rye flour blend, spelled flour and durum wheat in water. Stir well, I've used at mixer for a few minutes.

• Add the melted margarine / butter, mix well.

• Finally, add the chocolate pieces and mix them carefully into the dough.

The dough is thick, somewhat like a porridge in consistence.

• Spoon the dought to a muffin mold.  
• Let the muffins rise about 50 minutes, covered with a cloth.

• Bake the rye chocolate muffins at 200 degrees for about 15 - 20 minutes. 
• Let them cool down before serving them.

These chocolate rye muffins can be stored in an airtight container for a few days. You can also freeze them.

... I hope you enjoy baking and serving

these Chocolate rye muffins!