Detox January, Week 2: Bake Sale Chocolate Muffins Recipe
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Two-ingredient chocolate and pumpkin muffins -- so good, they're even bake-sale-worthy.
Chocolate muffins (or cupcakes, if you prefer)
Chocolate muffins, OK, but I bet you're wondering about the bake sale part, right?
There's a backstory...
I recently learned that there is a backlash developing against the resurgence of interest in domesticity or what we of a certain age learned long ago as "home economics." I know, I know, this shouldn't be news, right? I mean, every time something becomes popular or trendy, a backlash ensues, yes?
So now baking is under fire.
(Not to mention raising chickens, but that's off-topic right now. )
This all came to a head when a contributor in The New York Times…
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