1/2 cup whole wheat flour
2 tsps baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup vanilla sugar
1/2 cup melted butter, cooled
1 cup buttermilk
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsps instant coffee
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Cool on rack.
This is my entry for the 2nd Annual O Foods Contest for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. ‘CAPPUCCINO BUTTERMILK MUFFINS’. Do head across to Michelle’s at Bleeding Espresso and be part of tradition in honor of award-winning pastry chef Gina DePalma, author of Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen; Gina has been fighting ovarian cancer for the past year and a half, and in addition to physically battling the disease, she has also started the Cowgirl Cure Foundation to raise awareness and money for research as well.
O Foods Contest for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and for the second year in a row, Sara of Ms Adventures in Italy and Michelle of Bleeding Espresso are hosting the O Foods Contest to raise awareness of this important health issue.
There are TWO WAYS to take part in the O Foods Contest:
ONE: Post a recipe to your blog using a food that starts or ends with the letter O (e.g., oatmeal, orange, okra, octopus, olive, onion, potato, tomato); include this entire text box in the post; and send your post url along with a photo (100 x 100) to ofoods[at]gmail[dot]com by 11:59 pm (Italy time) on Monday, September 28, 2009.
PRIZES for recipe posts:
1st: Signed copy of Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo Kitchen by Gina DePalma, Executive Pastry Chef of Babbo Ristorante in NYC, who is currently battling ovarian cancer, inspired this event, and will be choosing her favorite recipe for this prize;
2nd: Signed copy of Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home by Mario Batali (winner chosen by Sara);
3rd: Signed copy of Vino Italiano: The Regional Italian Wines of Italy by Joseph Bastianich (winner chosen by Michelle).
OR
TWO: If you’re not into the recipe thing, simply post this entire text box in a post on your blog to help spread the word and send your post url to ofoods[at]gmail[dot]com by 11:59 pm (Italy time) on Monday, September 28, 2009.
Awareness posts PRIZE:
One winner chosen at random will receive a Teal Toes tote bag filled with ovarian cancer awareness goodies that you can spread around amongst your friends and family.
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From the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund:
Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death from gynecologic cancers in the United States and is the fifth leading cause of cancer death among U.S. women; a woman’s lifetime risk of ovarian cancer is 1 in 67.
The symptoms of ovarian cancer are often vague and subtle, making it difficult to diagnose, but include bloating, pelvic and/or abdominal pain, difficulty eating or feeling full quickly; and urinary symptoms (urgency or frequency).
There is no effective screening test for ovarian cancer but there are tests which can detect ovarian cancer when patients are at high risk or have early symptoms.
In spite of this, patients are usually diagnosed in advanced stages and only 45% survive longer than five years. Only 19% of cases are caught before the cancer has spread beyond the ovary to the pelvic region.
When ovarian cancer is detected and treated early on, the five-year survival rate is greater than 92%.
And remember, you can also always donate to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund at our page through FirstGiving!
Please help spread the word about ovarian cancer.
Together we can make enough noise to kill this silent killer.
Hi Deeba.
First of all the muffins are very inviting dear and even I do agree adding buttermilk makes them light, this is my experience too.
I completely empathise with you when you get woken up at 4AM. I have faced this very frequently in the last few days where I have gone sleepless for almost 48hrs. But sorry I could not muster up myself to bake, in the wildest of my dreams at 5:30 in the morning. Tussi great ho.:-)
Deeba baking so early, if i do that hubby will drag me back to the bed 🙂
Love anything with chocolate and last time i tried one of you cupcakes with coffee theywere yumm. SO bookmarking this .
You've just combined two things I love – chocolate and coffee. They're gorgeous and tempting.
So pretty and tempting! I love that wonderful flavor!
Cheers,
Rosa
Gorgeous! I wish I can have one of those. Need coffee badly.
For the past few nites, daughter woke me up a few times in the nite bright as a chirpy bird even though she has a bad case of flu and all she can think of is 'mommy, time to go to school yet?' arrgghhh
Cool! my mother will really love this 😀 I should make some for her 🙂
People drink coffee to stay awake and you get up and bake coffee somethings at 5.30 in the morning!
I don't need convincing about your coffee love affair. 🙂
A used to have bad "growing pains" till about a year back. Pouring warm water over the legs and a slight massage helps.
Waw,…your muffins & all of your baked goods always look so tempting & appetizing!!
These muffins look wonderful!!
coffee makes the world go round and so will these awesome muffins. Looks so gorgeous!
coffee in baked goods always gets me, however i do not usually bake with it myself too much at home due to soeren. lovely muffins!
Happy Early baking.Its midnight baking for me.Love the muffins.I too have been toying the idea of coffee-yogurt muffins.Coffee in baked items is GREAT.
Oh dear… these sounds dangerously delicious!
I don't know where you find the energy and motivation to bake after a sleepless night, but we get to enjoy (at least visually) the gorgeous end results! Food with a connection alwasy has that extra special flavor – I just hope I find the time to make the many extraordinary recipes I've found online (including yours!)
I am thankful you have a love affair with coffee/espresso as do I.
When I saw the title of this post I was in HEAVEN. I love these types of muffins. I am printing this one!
You are grt deeba, i have baked 12 clock in the night but never so early in the morning, muffins look delicious!
Goodness Deeba, you are indefatigable! Baking after 3 hrs sleep? The muffins look fantastic..I'm a mocha fan too.
If I mail you food will you take pretty pictures of them for me? The muffins look scrumptious!
Growing pains! I know very well what they are! I used to wake up my mom zillion times 😀
The muffins look WOW! A small pointer..how much choco chips do we need to add? I guess it's 1/2 cup.
Growing pains! I still have them sometimes 😛 😛 Poor Mom!!
The muffins look delicious! I cant imagine being up in the middle of the night baking with coffee, instead of drinking it 😛
What a delicious treat! I guess if one has to be up so early in the morning baking is a fun thing to do. I love these with chocolate chips – such a great combo with coffee.
wow..you really love baking! I don't think I can get myself to do anything after such little sleep. They look gorgeous!
Now this is the way I love to have my coffee Deeba, in a muffin, a cake, a brownie….
So early in the morning to bake but what a magnificent result totally outstanding muffins 🙂
Cheers!
Gera
These sound like the perfect way to start your day.
magnifiques ces muffins ! je note de suite, pour les essayer 🙂
Je crois que je préfèrerais me coucher très tard pour réaliser ces douceurs plutôt que de me lever à l'aube … mais je suis sûre de les apprécier à toute heure de la journée !
Oh my goodness that looks so good. What a great treat you made.
YUM I would love to wake up to these muffins!!! They look incredible!
They sound delicious, and good for you for turning a too-early morning into an opportunity for baking! 🙂
This would be perfect breakfast, the coffee flavor sounds wonderful!
Wow! I love your pictures!!! I am a big fan of coffee 🙂 Delicious.
Those are my kind of muffins!! And I would bake them at 5:30 a.m.
Great photos – thanks for sharing the recipe.
Oh they look fabulous! I couldn't get up that early in the morning, although if it has chocolate in it….
Sounds like the perfect breakfast – love the way you used buttermilk, must look out for that at the store.
Hope to catch up with you in the next day or so! xxx
wooww…what a lovely muffin….would love to bake this. Let me move to my new place,(next month)need to get a muffin pan to bake this though!But im making this…They are so inviting deeba….I love coffee flavoured cakes and muffins….
Well one doubt, Guess it's a dumb one too. What's buttermilk?…Is it dahi+water or you get something called buttermilk itself?!….if so which one did u use?…let me know please…
Bookmarking this one…
Deeba these are absolute wonderful! I really love muffins, I think we can use butter instance buttermilk didn't??? huggs xoxoxoxoxo
or simple yogurt
Baking is definitely therapeutic, and a great activity when you can't sleep. Absolutely delicious muffins!
These muffins look like the perfect accompaniment to a good book and a fresh cup of coffee!
YUM – those sound delicious! LOVE a coffee-flavored muffin with my coffee!
Oh my goodness I am *so* in. YUM!!!!!
Btw, Deeba, will you be participating in the O Foods for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Contest this year? You have until Sept 28th to come up with a fab O recipe…and there are prizes 😀 Feel free to spread the word as well!
These sound divine Deeba! And I love how there's that friend connection for you!
Great muffins for a great cause! I love the coffee + chocolate chips combo and this is a marked recipe in my book. Must bake and eat them!
these are absolute wonderful! I really love muffins,
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oh wow great muffins man can you bake
Those look perfect! I really love your recipe!
Cheers,
Miette.
O foods is a great cause, and your muffins look perfect for an early morning. I agree that buttermilk helps make things moister. It makes gluten free scones almost edible.
Gorgeous muffins, and for a great cause!
Ah yes, bliss indeed.
Great cause too.
LL
Now this is my idea of a muffin…Wow! I could eat these at every meal:)