American-style jumbo chocolate chip muffins

Step 1

Pre-heat your oven to its highest setting (temperature will be reduced when muffins go in). Prepare your muffin tin by lining with paper cases and set aside.
Sift together into a bowl: flour, sugar, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda, and set aside.
In another bowl combine all your wet ingredients: oil, egg, milk, extracts, and mix well.
Straightaway sift all your dry ingredients again into the bowl with the wet ingredients. When sifted add chocolate chips and fold together the mixture 15 times ONLY.
Straightaway spoon your mixture into your muffin cases so they are each 3/4 full and place in your oven on the middle shelf, reduce temperature to 170 C / Gas 3 and bake for 25 to 30 minutes until the tops are firm to the touch.
Let the muffins sit in the tin for 1 to 2 minutes after you take them out of the oven, place them on a cooling rack for 10 minutes and then serve still warm.