Molten chocolate cake

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 8 ounces dark chocolate chips
• 5 large eggs
• 1/2 cup sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 4 teaspoons flour (or matzo meal, ground in a blender to a fine powder)
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Directions

Melt butter and chocolate in a medium heat-proof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water; remove from heat. Beat eggs, sugar and salt with a hand mixer in a medium bowl until sugar dissolves. Beat egg mixture into chocolate until smooth. Beat in flour or matzo meal until just combined. (Batter can be made a day ahead; return to room temperature an hour or so before baking. adjust oven rack to middle position; heat oven to 450 degrees. Bake until batter puffs but center is not set, 8 to 10 minutes. Carefully lift cakes from tin and set on a work surface.

Top with fruit or powered sugar and serve while still hot!

 makes 8 to 12

pear-berry muffins

I wish I could take credit for this!  I really do! But this one is all Michael's doing.  This was our breakfast this morning.  YUM!!!!
Ingredients
1/2 cup pear
2 oz margarine/butter
2 oz skim milk
2 1/2 cups baking mix
1/2 cup blackberries

Directions
Mix Pureed pears milk and Butter/margarine together then add baking mix and blackberries. Pour mixture into Muffin Tins and Bake 15 minutes at 350 or until tooth pick comes through clean.