“After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.”
Emily Luchetti
The Daring Bakers’ February 2012 host was – Lis! Lisa stepped in last minute and challenged us to create a quick bread we could call our own. She supplied us with a base recipe and shared some recipes she loves from various websites and encouraged us to build upon them and create new flavor profiles.
♥♥♥Rules of the challenge♥♥♥
No yeast
Can’t take more than 1.5 hours to prepare and bake through.
Only loaves or muffins/popovers
Thank you Lisa for a real fun and ‘breathless’ challenge. Thank you and Ivonne of Cream Puffs in Venice for hosting this fab kitchen!! Do stop by here to see the other speedy bakers at work!! They are talented as they are quick!
Summary: Adapted from David Lebovtiz. DELICIOUS, gooey and ever-so-chocolaty, these quick popovers are ready in the blink of an eye, well almost! Pop them in as you sit for dinner, and indulge in ‘dessert popovers‘!
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 tbsp butter, melted, plus 1 tsp for greasing tins
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1/2 cup low fat cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup all purpose flour {slightly heaped}
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 200ºC. Liberally grease 5-6 popover tins, or a 6 muffin tray with softened butter.
- Place 1 tbsp melted butter, eggs, cream, salt and sugar in a bowl, and blend for a few seconds
- Add the flour and cocoa and blend again for about 10 seconds, just until smooth. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter among the greased molds, filling each 1/2 to 2/3rds full.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the popovers are puffy and have small cracks.
- Remove from the oven, wait a few minutes until cool enough to handle, then remove the popovers from the pans and set them on a cooling rack. If they’re stubborn, you may need a small knife or spatula to help pry them out.
- Serve warm with a drizzle of single cream and fresh fruit… or just as is!
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Oh, lovely! I’ve never had chocolate popovers, but I really like the idea. Divine, I’m sure.
Cheers,
Rosa
A lovely selection for Daring bakers, these are simply irresistible!
lovely popovers….scrummy lil’ treats!You are such a yummy mummy deeba!!
I’m honored, Deeba. Having inspired such a wonderful baker as you makes me so happy! Needless to say that I will have to try yours too! I had never seen chocolate popovers. Your photos, spectacular as always, I want to jump into the screen to grab one of these beauties!
Good luck to your daughter on her exams!
Delicious double chocolate dessert Debbie, I am honored to share the delicious food item you may have in your site. Chocolate is one of my favorite desserts since I was a little kid but unluckily, I do not have the talent to cook and bake pastries.
“Ai WOW Shet Sarap” This must be my little kids are sayin when they saw that tasty popovers. 🙂
Wow they look heavenly! I made simple popovers using the same recipe as posted by Renata, but yours are simply looking divine. As always you are way ahead of all of us.
Best of luck to your daughter (and to you too) for her exams!
Looks so good!! I never bake with eggs but this recipe is so tempting! I can never get enough of your photos Deeba! You are fabulous 🙂
There is a lot of chocolate going on here I adore the look of the popovers i made them also I love the flavour profile. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Exams would make more hungry (than usual) I would so look forward to snack time. Your popovers look invitingly dark and dangerous too, another recipe for me to try from your space. Chocolaty and quick is really really hard to resist!
How incredible do these look? Chocolate is so delicious but always so hard to photograph with all its brown colours, but you’ve managed to make these look so amazing. I would reach out and pluck one from the screen right now if I could!
I love this recipe! Chocolate muffins? hmmm.. love it! I should try baking this recipe. My niece and nephews will surely enjoy it!
Beautiful photos, beautiful recipe. I must say I adore your quotes in every post :)!
These are so beautiful. I love the idea of chocolate popovers.
I’m still in that teenager chocolate phase. I’m unsure if I’ll leave it. These look so so scrumptioouss
Wow, Deeba! You have a way with pictures and a way in the kitchen! Both of those look marvelous. Nice job on the challenge!
They do look chocolatey… and delicious! Good luck to your daughter with her exams
Best, Sandie
Thank you Sandie. You are too kind!
These popovers look delectable!
And so do the cinnamon roll-ups, mmm. I tried to make those once myself, but it was a big disappointment — too bready and not pastrylike enough, for some reason. I’ll be checking back for that recipe.
I want to try this kind of recipe this weekend…I will ask the help of my sisters…For sure my family will love this too!
It is difficult to express how impressed I am by your photos. Are you a proffessional photographer? Love the recipe!
Both recipes look absolutely divine! I’m going to look out for the recipe for the Quick Apple Walnut Cinnamon Buns!
wow I just fell in love with your choco popovers, but the cinnamon buns look mezmerizing to me too. I wish I could have some now, looks so very tempting. O.O
enjoyed your photographie!
Dear Deeba these look amazing and beauty and Im hungry dear!!! (lol)
Beautiful and lovely! I am always so excited to see what you have created with each challenge! I love pop-overs, and I am sure double chocolate ones would be amazing!
Your popovers look amazing! How have I never baked popovers before.
Beautiful pictures and delicious chocolate popovers!
delicious…
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I love the pictures you have posted here…This post is really amazing!
Wow, these look so tempting! Was so busy this month too, finally posted my challenge. Nowhere as good looking as yours dearie. Hope the teeny bopper is going well with exams and hope you’re hanging in there as support crew. *hugs*
That looks delicious. I have to make it tonight.
What a great looking dessert. I’ve never made it. Beautiful pics also.
That’s a drool worthy dessert with chocolate. Perfect for all kinds of celebrations. Pictures are stunning deeba.
I have been so busy hence skip the DB challenges so many times now, but your choco pops made me wish I did something delicious too! All the best to the teen for her exam!
Anything that starts with double chocolate is bound to catch my attention and these popovers certainly did that!
This is a great challenge 🙂 You did a fantastic job! These are like a cross between a lava cake and a cupcake and just everything that I like!!!
Thanks for sharing this recipe!
I have made regular popovers before, but chocolate popovers sound amazing. Anything with chocolate catches my eye. Going to make these this weekend!
Chocolates are definitely lovely!I want to try this kind of recipe…
i wannA have allllll of those! A L L
Hi
I was not familiar with “popovers” as a dessert but the pics looked so amazing that I tried these out today..they came out nice but I am not sure how they should taste..Should they taste like muffins or a dense chocolate cake? Can you perhaps elaborate on that please? It’ll help me understand whether my attempt was perfect or not 🙂
Hi Manjeet, They were light and airy, more like muffins. Like most popovers, they must be served warm out of the oven to retain the feel of lightness.
Hope this helps. Take care
Thanks for the prompt reply Deeba..Mine were not really popping over 🙂 They were dense ..should I have added some baking soda or powder?
Wow! this is really a mouthwatering Chocolate muffins. I will definitely gonna try baking this recipe. Thanks for the post and for sharing this to us.
Yummy!!!! Bookmarked the site…
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