recipe from joythebaker.com
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
¼ teaspoon salt
5 ounces bittersweet chocolate,
4 ounces coarsely chopped,
1 ounce very finely chopped
1 stick (8 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 large egg yolk, at room temperature
6 tablespoons of sugar
Getting
ready: Center a rack in the oven and preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
butter (or spray – it’s easier) 6 cups of a regular-size muffin pan,
preferably a disposable aluminum foil pan, dust the insides with flour
and tap out the excess. Put the muffin pan on a baking sheet.
Sift the flour, cocoa and salt together.
Set
a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering water, put the
coarsely chopped chocolate and the butter in the bowl and stir
occasionally over the simmering water just until they are melted – you
don’t want them to get so hot that the butter separates. Remove the
bowl from the pan of water.
In
a large bowl, whisk the eggs and yolk until homogenous. Add the sugar
and whisk until well blended, about 2 minutes. Add the dry ingredients
and, still using the whisk, stir (don’t beat) them into the eggs.
Little by little, and using a light hand, stir in the melted chocolate
and butter. Divide the batter evenly among the muffin cups and
sprinkle the finely chopped chocolate over the batter.