"CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS"

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup light brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup milk
1/2 cup canola oil
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 package (12oz) chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.  Grease 12 muffin cups.

In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugars, baking powder and salt.  In another bowl, stir together milk, eggs, canola oil and vanilla until blended.  Mix dry ingredients with wet ingredients and stir just until combined.  Stir in chocolate chips and nuts, if using.

Spoon batter into muffin cups; bake 15-20 minutes, or until a knife inserted in center of one muffin comes out clean.  Remove muffin tin to wire rack; cool 5 minutes and remove from tins to finish cooling.  YIELD:  12 muffins

**You can prepare muffin batter the night before, refrigerate and bake the next morning.