Raspberry Chocolate Chip Muffins

It was pretty darned hard to peel myself out of bed this morning. It thundered and rained all night, and that makes for an awfully deep slumber, especially at the end of a busy week. It's always nice to not have to get up to the shrill shriek of the alarm clock at 5:30 a.m. and to lay in bed planning your day in your head before rolling out whenever you dang well feel like it. 
           Today was one such day, but while laying there thinking about the prospects of study time and a jog, I remembered I had made a batch of muffins last night.  And not just any ole' muffins, raspberry chocolate chip muffins, with organic raspberries and Ghiradelli dark chocolate...
            Needless to say, I was upright and making coffee in a jiffy, ready to microwave one of those delicious little muffins to enjoy with the morning paper and a hot cup of joe.  This is one of my favorite muffin recipes, by far, and now I'll share it with you, because I like  you that much.

Raspberry Chocolate Chip Muffins

- 3 1/2 cups of flour ( I use Bob's Red Mill Whole Wheat Pastry Flour)

-3/4 cup sugar

- 1 1/2 stick butter

-2 eggs

-1 cup raspberries

-1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

-2  cups buttermilk

- 1 t. salt

-1 t. baking soda

-1 1/2  T. baking powder

-1 T. vanilla

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees.Place muffin cups in standard 12 cup muffin tin, spray lightly. Melt butter in saucepan. Combine flour, salt, baking powder and soda in medium mixing bowl. Combine sugar, melted butter, eggs, vanilla  and milk and whisk until combined. Make a well in dry ingredients and add wet ingredients, folding gently to combine. Fold in raspberries and chocolate chips. Spoon evenly into tins and bake 20-25 minutes until toothpick inserted in comes out clean.

If this won't get you out of bed on a rainy day, I don't know what will. Tart raspberries and rich dark chocolate, the perfect pairing with coffee or tea for a  lazy Sunday.

A little chocolate a day is good for your heart, so it's probably best you have it in muffin form once and a while, don't you think?

Raspberries are my favorite fruit by far and wide, and muffins are a fabulous vehicle for these delicious, seedy little berries. You can put a little butter on them too, or raspberry jam if you just  can't get enough raspberry action. And a batch of a dozen is breakfast for you and the family for a few days! Or for any meal you feel like having a muffin for...