Here is the recipe for viral chocolate muffins from the Paris 2024 Olympics

These industrial cakes were on every table during the Olympic Village at the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Athletes have not stopped talking about them on social networks, especially on TikTok. The Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen spoke in particular about his addiction to these chocolate cakes. On video he explains “I don’t know guys if you realize how good this is”films chocolate on his nose, piles up on his bedside table.

Faced with this success, one question remains: how to reproduce the chocolate muffins of the Paris 2024 Olympics?

The French manufacturer did not want to reveal the recipe, but Jacques Smith, spokesman for Sodexo, responsible for the distribution of the product, gave some information about the recipe. “This is a 130g maxi muffin offered in a tulip shape for chocolate lovers with dark chocolate filling and topping, dark chocolate and milk chocolate ‘chunks’ (chips)”.

The recipe for chocolate muffins from the Olympic Games in Paris 2024

To make these delicious chocolate chip cookies with a ganache center at home, Jordan Howlett aka @jordan_the_stallion8 on TikTok shared his version of the recipe for these famous muffins with his 13 million subscribers.

Recipe duration: 30 minutes
Preparation time: 20 minutes

The ingredients:

• 60 ml of water
• 2 teaspoons of instant coffee
• 50 g unsweetened cocoa powder
• 90 g of chocolate
• 115 g butter
• 240 g all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 120 ml full cream
• 45 g of chocolate
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1.5 g of salt
• 100 g brown sugar
• 100 g white sugar
• 60 ml vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 60 g chocolate pieces

The steps:

1. Preheat your oven to 392°F.
2. Add milk, water and instant coffee over medium heat.
3. Mix and bring everything to a boil.
4. Add the cocoa powder to your saucepan and stir until smooth. Add 90 g chocolate pieces, the butter and stir until melted. Reserve.
5. Mix flour, baking powder and 1.5 g of salt in a bowl. Reserve.
6. Once your chocolate mixture has cooled, add the brown sugar, white sugar, vegetable oil, eggs and vanilla extract.
7. Add a third of your flour mixture to your chocolate mixture until smooth. Add the rest of your flour mixture. Add 30 g chocolate pieces.
8. Grease or line your muffin tins and fill them 2/3 full and put the rest of the chocolate pieces on top. Bake.
9. Meanwhile prepare your chocolate ganache. Heat your cream in a saucepan over medium heat. When it starts to boil, take it off the heat and add 45g of melted chocolate and a pinch of salt.
10. Blend until smooth.
11. When the muffins are out of the oven, prick them with the end of a piping bag and fill with as much chocolate ganache as you like.
12. If you don’t have a piping bag, you can fill the muffin by carefully cutting a small piece from the top and pouring the filling into it.