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The Mother’s Day Menu:

Juice: Orange Banana Frappe
Bun Basket: Whole Wheat Cheese Breadsticks & Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins
Fruit & Cereal Dish: Blueberry Crannachan
Main Hot Entre: Breakfast Strata with Turkey Chicken Sausage

Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins Recipe

Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins shown here with the Cheddar Cheese Breadsticks

What you need:

Ingredients for the Chocolate Cheesecake Muffins

• 1 Cup of Sugar
• 1 ½ cups Flour
• ¼ cup Cocoa Powder
• 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• ½ teaspoon Salt
• 1 cup Buttermilk
• 2 Eggs
• ½ cup Oil
• 1 teaspoon Balsamic Vinegar
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla

Topping

• 8 oz. Cream Cheese, softened
• 1 beaten Egg
• ½ teaspoon Vanilla
• ¾ cup Chocolate Chips

What you do:

1. In a large bowl mix dry ingredients together
2. In a different bowl, mix the wet ingredients together.
3. Finally, in yet another bowl, mix topping ingredients together.
4. Preheat oven to 350oF
5. Grease or spray 12 large muffin cups.
6. Mix wet ingredients into dry and stir to moisten
7. Spoon into muffin tins – filling ½ to 2/3 full.

8. Top each muffin cup with cream cheese mixture.

9. Bake 20- 25 minutes at 350oF.
10. Remove and cool on rack.

Perfect for a brunch treat or even dessert later - DELICIOUS

Makes 1 dozen large muffins.