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.
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.