RECIPE: MOCHA MUFFINS
Mocha Muffins are moist, coffee flavoured, full of walnuts and choco chips with a crusty top. Perfect muffins to enjoy with your morning coffee or as an afternoon snack.
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THEME: IT’S COFFEE TIME
This lovely theme is suggested by Renu. She blogs at Cook With Renu and she wanted us to share a recipe where we’ve used coffee. While, I love coffee, I realized that I really don’t have that many coffee recipes on my blog. There are quite a few recipes with coffee that I want to try out.
A few days ago, hubby requested that I bake some muffins. Hadn’t baked some in a long time so jumped at the idea and decided to give an old recipe some new life. These Mocha Muffins are a perfect balance of flavours, from the chocolate and coffee. The first time I baked these muffins, using instant coffee, we could not taste the coffee at all. Second time round I brewed some strong coffee and it worked well. I’ve also used espresso coffee and it tastes awesome.
When it comes to coffee, Kenya is blessed with some awesome aromatic coffee that grows on the Highlands. The rich volcanic soil and high rainfall is best for the Arabica variety.
Some Recipes With Coffee That I Love:
Check out how fellow members of Sunday Funday have used coffee:
Recipes with Coffee
- Affogato Martini by A Day in the Life on the Farm
- Coffee Maple Pancakes by Palatable Pastime
- Lamb Lollipops with Coffee-Pepper Sauce by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
- Cold Brew Coffee by Making Miracles
- Dalgona Coffee by Sneha’s Recipe
- Gingerbread Latte by Amy’s Cooking Adventures
- Mocha Muffins by Mayuri’s Jikoni
- No-Bake Coffee Energy Bites by Cook with Renu
- Sugar Free Hazelnut Iced Coffee with Hazelnut Cold Foam by Our Good Life
Memories
The first time I baked Mocha Muffins was for my sister’s birthday and published it on 21/04/2013. My sister is a coffee lover and actually uses a large soup cup as her coffee cup in the mornings. Though I couldn’t share these muffins with her as she is an ocean apart from me, my family celebrated her birthday by enjoying the muffins.
In fact for us 20th April is a triple celebration as my hubby’s niece and nephew too are born on the same day.
What is Mocha?
Though Mocha means different things in different parts of the world, basically mocha is a shot of espresso with chocolate powder or chocolate syrup. Either milk or cream is added to it.
It is believed that the drink is named after the mocha coffee bean. These beans are shipped from Al Mokka in Yemen. These coffee beans naturally have a chocolatey flavour. However, these days mocha is a drink not necessarily from the mocha bean but a coffee with chocolate.
Ingredients Required For Mocha Muffins
- Wheat Flour – I’ve used normal wheat flour (atta) that I use for making roti. You can use wheat pastry flour. Can replace wheat flour with plain or all purpose flour. However, reduce the liquid by 2 -3 tbsp.
- Cocoa Powder – unsweetened
- Brewed Coffee – make the coffee strong or use espresso. Allow the brewed coffee to cool down. Or alternately, add ground coffee to ½ cup cold water. Leave the mixture overnight. Next day strain and use the cold brewed coffee.
- Cinnamon Powder
- Soda Bicarbonate – baking soda
- Salt – don’t add if you use salted butter.
- Unsalted Butter – take 1 stick or 113g. Melt it. I melted it in the microwave oven.
- Brown Sugar – or powdered jaggery
- White Sugar – granulated. Or substitute with brown sugar.
- Egg – large. If you don’t want to use egg then replace it with ¼ cup plain thick yogurt.
- Milk – I have used dairy milk. Can replace it with whipping cream.
- Yogurt – thick plain yogurt. Make sure it is not watery.
- Walnuts – chopped. Can replace with any other nuts of your choice.
- Semi sweet chocolate chips – or use any dark chocolate and chop it up into small pieces.
- Vanilla Extract
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MOCHA MUFFINS
Ingredients
- 1½ cups wheat flour
- ½ tsp cinnamon powder
- 1 tsp soda bicarbonate
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup walnuts chopped
- ¼ cup semi sweet choco chips
- ⅓ cup espresso or strong coffee cold
- 1 large egg
- ½ cup milk
- ¼ cup plain yogurt thick
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C.
- Sift flour, soda bicarbonate, cocoa powder, salt and cinnamon powder together into a mixing bowl.
- Take another mixing bowl. Add the sugars, coffee, egg, milk, yogurt, melted butter and vanilla extract.
- Whisk lightly to mix.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
- Mix just enough till the flour is incorporated into the wet ingredients. Don’t over mix.
- Fold in the chopped nuts and choco chips.
- Fill cake cups with the batter, three quarter of the way.
- Use large or medium ones. If you use large ones, you will get 6-7 muffins. If you use medium ones you will get 12 muffins.
- Bake large muffins for 30-35 minutes and medium ones for 20-25 minutes.
- Insert a toothpick or small knife in the middle of a muffin. It should come out clean if the muffins are baked.
- Remove the muffins from the oven.
- Allow them to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
- If you use large cake cups like I have then you'll get 6-7 muffins. If you use medium cake cups then you'll get 12 muffins.
- Baking time will vary according to the size of the cake cups you use.
- Replace nuts with chocolate chips.
- To replace the egg for eggless version add ¼ cup plain yogurt.
- If you use plain or all purpose flour then reduce milk to ⅓ cup.
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