The Orange Strainer: Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Muffins

Recipe: Graham Cracker Chocolate Chip Muffins

Source: http://tastykitchen.com/recipes/breads/graham-cracker-chocolate-chip-muffins/

Time: 40 minutes

Ease: 2

Taste: 4

Leftover Value: 6

Down the Drain or Keep in the Strainer: Down the Drain!

During summer, I seek out anything that slightly resembles s'mores. My thoughts when I saw these muffins were: graham crackers are used in s'mores, chocolate is used in s'mores, so this must be like a s'mores muffin minus the marshmallows.

No, I am not the most logical person. Regardless, these should have been somewhat satisfying, but sadly--they weren't.

I added extra chocolate chips, a lot of extra chocolate chips, but it still didn't make these worth making again, let alone eating more than one.

That's a little bit of a lie. I did eat two. After all, I had to be able to rate their "leftover value", and I do always secretly hope that baked goods that don't hit the spot while fresh will somehow magically transform as they cool into something of value. I did, however, rank their leftover value higher than their taste because they tasted basically the same the second day as they did fresh.

There were crushed graham crackers in the dough and the topping. Usually these streusel-like toppings add to the splendor of a baked good--I mean, how can you argue with sugar and butter mixed together and plopped on top of chocolate and cake? I don't know if it was the amount of flour or a lack of butter and sugar but I wasn't impressed. It was sticky and chunky, but not at all the buttery sugar crunch it should have been.