Chocolate Candy Bar Muffins

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Cook Time:

Serves: 36

Ingredients

• 2 cups (4 sticks) butter
• 1 (8-ounce) bar plain chocolate candy
• 3 ½ cups sugar
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 8 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 4 cups coarsely chopped pecans

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Line muffin pans (2 ½ x 1 ¼ - inch) with paper muffin cups.
3. Place butter and candy bar in top of double boiler; melt over simmering water.
4. In large bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, and salt. Stir in chocolate mixture. Add eggs and vanilla; mix just until ingredients are evenly moistened. Fold in pecans.
5. Fill muffin cups 2/3 full. Bake 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool in muffin pans 10 minutes.

Source

• Dessert Recipes by the South Carolina Department of Agriculture, public domain government resource—original source of recipe