Eggless Milo Muffins stuffed with Choki Choki

Yesterday, as I was looking at the 5 packs of Choki Choki that we got for free (can't remember where we got this from but it's been in my pantry for a few months already) when suddenly idea came rushing in to put this chocolatey Choki Choki in muffins.

Since my sons prefer chocolate muffins, I decided to just go for the Chocolate muffins recipe from Nigella website that I normally used.

But then I realized that I ran out of cocoa powder, eggs and milk *sigh. (Looks like its time for grocery shopping)

So I quickly googled for eggless muffin recipe and I found this easy peasy recipe from food.com. The plus point is that it also does not use milk, which I didn't have at the moment. 

I have slightly modified the recipe to fit my taste and to cater for the missing ingredient (I have no cocoa powder, remember?). So from the original recipe, I substitute cocoa powder with milo and use coconut oil instead of normal oil. Also I substitute brown sugar to white sugar (reduced the amount too). And the most fun part is the Choki Choki filling that I added. Nyum..

Recipe source: Food.com

INGREDIENTS:

1 1/2 cups All purpose Flour

3/4 cups Brown Sugar

2.5 Tbsp Milo

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Baking Soda

1/2 tsp Salt

1/4 cups Coconut Oil

1 tsp Vanilla essence

1 Tbsp White Vinegar

1 cup Warm Water

1/8 cup of Chocolate Chips (I only have this much left in my pantry *sigh again)

METHODS:

1) Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.

2) Then add wet ingredients in and stir until well combined.

3) Add in chocolate chips into the mixture and mix gently.

4) Then pour the batter halfway in each muffin pan, add in some Choki Choki inside the batter and top up again with batter until almost full.
5) Sprinkles milo on top of the batter.

6) Bake in 180 degrees Celcius oven until done.

Cheeseburger Pasta Casserole

When I came across this recipe from here, I was really excited to try this out. What could be better than a combination of two of my kids favourite meal (Cheeseburger and macaroni) into one!

Out from the oven

This meal received a big thumbs up from my husband and my kids..yeay ;)

So do give this recipe a try. Recipe below. You can also refer to the original recipe from the link I added above.

I also bake carrots and sweet potatoes for side dish

Add chopped lettuce for the crunchy texture

I have altered the recipe a bit since I used the ingredients that I only have on hands. So since I ran out of worcestershire sauce, I substitute it with oyster sauce. I also used my homemade tomato puree combined with storebought pasta sauce. I omit onion, onion powder and garlic powder as well since I don't have that in my pantry at the moment, so I just used minced garlic.

Here are the ingredients:

225g of Macaroni
4 clove of Garlic - minced
300g of minced beef
1/2 to 1 jar homemade Tomato Sauce (depends on your taste)
1/2 jar Kimball Pasta sauce (depends on your taste)
2 Tablespoon Tomato Puree - if needed
1 Tablespoon Oyster Sauce
1 or 2 Tablespoon Mustard
2 tsp brown sugar
Salt and Pepper to taste
1/2 to 1 cup of shredded Cheddar cheese

Before going in the oven 

1) Cook macaroni as instructed in the package
2) In the meantime, heat oil in a pan and add minced garlic and minced beef. Cook until minced beef brown. While cooking this, I put carrots and sweet potatoes in the oven to bake, this will be our side dish to be eaten alongside the casserole.
3) Then add the rest of the ingredients except cheese.
4) Stir for 3 minutes until all the flavors from the ingredients incorporated.
5) Add in cooked macaroni and stir until coated.
6) Next, pour the mixture in a oven dish half, sprinkle with cheese, and another half mixture and sprinkle with more cheese on top.
7) Bake in the oven (175 degrees Celcius) for about 15 mins or until the cheese has melted.