Title: Chocolate-Chip Cookie Muffins
Categories: Muffins Gift
Yield: 18 Muffins

1 2/3	c	Flour
1/3	c	Cake flour PLUS
2	ts	Cake flour
1 1/2	ts	Baking powder
1/2	ts	Baking soda
1/4	ts	Salt
1 1/4	c	Miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1		Stick butter PLUS
2	tb	Butter, softened
3/4	c	Light brown sugar
2		Eggs
1		Square unsweetened chocolate, melted & cooled
2	ts	Vanilla extract
1/2	c	Half-and-half PLUS
1	tb	Half-and-half, blended with
1	ts	Lemon juice
3/4	c	Chopped pecans

Sift together the flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Toss the chocolate chips with 1 tablespoon of the dry ingredients.

Cream the butter and sugar and beat 3 minutes. Beat in the eggs, melted chocolate and vanilla. Add sifted mixture alternately with the half-and-half, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Stir in the chocolate chips and pecans.

Divide the batter among buttered and floured muffin tins. Bake in a 375'F. oven for 20 minutes, until a wooden pick in the center emerges clean and dry. Cool, remove from pans. Makes 18 muffins.

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