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This year I'm growing some basil varieties, exploring many recipes with them. Cinnamon basil, with is incredible scent, it's really good as an herbal tea and this recipe is perfect for its cinnamon flavour.

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Chocolate and Cinnamon Basil Patties

Ingredients
220g plain flour or manitoba flour ('Canadian flour')
1 tsp. baking powder
50g sugar
250ml milk
200g milk chocolate
1 sprig of cinnamon basil, with flowers

Directions
Combine the manitoba flour, sugar and melted butter.
Dissolve the baking powder in the milk and add to the batter.
Spoon the batter into 12 well-buttered muffin moulds and bake in preheated 200° C (392 F) oven 20 minutes. Remove the patties from the pan.
Melt milk chocolate, then remove from the heat.
Spoon melted chocolate on to each pattie, sprinkle with cinnamon basil and let cool.

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A similar recipe:

Chocolate and Mint Muffins

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This goes to Simona from Briciole who's hosting this week's edition of Weekend Herb Blogging.
This event was started by Kalyn from Kalyn's Kitchen.

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