Chocolate Muffin, 2024 Summer Olympics

[curls]

Social media is serving up stories about Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen and his love for the chocolate muffin that is available in the Olympic Village for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Several bakers and pastry chefs have tried to reverse engineer this recipe. Based on a segment from the Today show, I plan to try Kassie Mendieta recipe for this chocolate muffin (her website and substack are I Bake Mistakes).  Has anyone else seen this muffin in their social media? Anyone else interested in baking this? Let's all share our results here!

 

General information about the muffin and a test of copycat muffin recipes: https://www.today.com/food/recipes/olympic-chocolate-muffins-recipe-rcna165364

 

Kassie Mendieta's Olympic chocolate muffin recipe: https://ibakemistakes.substack.com/p/the-highly-sought-after-olympic-chocolate

 

photo of muffin from emmymade.com (Emmy uses Kassie Menndieta's muffin recipe):

 

 

[AAQuesada]

I remember seeing a version in the NYTimes. Here is the recipe (gift link)

 

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1025839-molten-chocolate-muffins?unlocked_article_code=1.EE4.F7-t.vHaAM-TdgFPa&smid=share-url

[curls]

Today I baked Kassie Mendieta's Olympic chocolate muffin recipe. Very, very chocolatey. Will try one after dinner and put the rest in the freezer. Was trying to get a feel for how large a batch these would make. Ended up with 6 regular sized muffins and 6 Texas muffins. I think that the next time that I make these I'll make them all regular sized -- these are quite rich and I am not exercising anywhere as much as an Olympic athlete!

Edited August 24 by curls (log)