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CAPPUCCINO MUFFINS…got ’em right the second time!
“Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis – a good hot cup of coffee.”
Alexander King
Grab a cuppa coffee & make these delicious muffins. If you know me by now, coffee rules my life. It’s the best thing that’s happened to me, & is my biggest stress buster! Don’t know if it’s good or bad, but the kids now enjoy the flavour of coffee in baked goods, & it isn’t rare to see the boy chomping the occasional coffee bean with great gusto. That I cannot do, but he can!
“Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz:”
I wanted to make muffins but I wanted something radically simple, something I hadn’t done before. After umpteen stops here & there, I sneaked into Nics @ Cherrapeno in the UK. I often check out her blog before going a step further. She has GREAT ideas, & gorgeous pictures – enough to give me an instant dose of inspiration. Also, she has 2 lads & is always making yum stuff to keep them happy. So I stumbled on her post of Cappuccino Muffins. YES…exactly what I wanted to make, & these were so E A S Y! She included an interesting anecdote about how she knocked over the lava lamp she had gifted her lad on his birthday, & made these muffins to placate him. He he, I was chuffed that I got away without breaking the lava lamp my daughter has been wanting for the last 2 years…I never bought it in the first place, & then eventually the daughter forgot. Mighty pleased with myself I hurried & took notes of the recipe, put it all together, spooned the batter into cases, & opened the oven door to shove in the tray. That’s when it hit me!There was no raising agent in my poor muffins. Obviously everyone & everything needs a little help to rise (no pun intended, LOL) & so did these!!! Too late I thought & shoved them in, in desperate hope that they would rise against all odds, & they obviously didn’t! Left them on the counter, as FLAT as they were. My good children came back from school & had a nibble voluntarily. They said they were alright, a bit bready, but tasted nice anyway, & had seconds too. I hung around suspiciously, but they chomped the bread-like creations down & went on to glug their glasses of milk etc! HUH? How nice the kids were! Not to be deterred by my stupidity or daunted by the experience, I went back to check therecipe & found that I had misread SF flour as AP. #$&*#$&*!!! With most of them muffins gone by the next morning, I made another batch, & this time frosted a few for my loyal tasters! Yes, now these rose, proving that baking powder does indeed play a role in the life we’ve been raised into!! LOL!
CAPPUCCINO MUFFINS
Recipe from Nic @ Cherrapeno Makes approx 11-12 medium sized muffins Ingredients:
2 cups self raising flour
3/4 cup vanilla caster sugar (or plain caster sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract)
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons instant coffee powder
1/2 cup butter
1 egg
1 small bag chocolate chips (100g)
Method:
Preheat the oven onto 375º F / 180ºC.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan and leave to cool. In a large mixing bowl, combine flour and sugar.
Crack the egg into a medium sized bowl and add the milk and coffee granules and stir until the coffee is dissolved. Pour this coffee mixture onto the flour/sugar and add the melted butter.
Stir until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips. Fill the muffin cases with the mixture, do not over-fill, you want the cases to be about 2/3 full.
Bake for 15-20 minutes, until springy to the touch. Cool in the tin for about 5 minutes before putting the muffins onto a wire rack to cool.
Cappuccino Curd Cheese Cream Topping
(This is my recipe. Nic has a luxurious mascarpone Cappuccino Topping on hers) Ingredients:
1/2 cup curd cheese (made from hanging yogurt for 24 hours)
1/4 cup low fat cream
3-4 tablespoon vanilla caster sugar (or plain caster sugar and ½ teaspoon vanilla extract)
½ teaspoon instant coffee powder
¼ cup chocolate chips (I forgot all about these :0() Method:
In a medium bowl, whip all the ingredients except chocolate chips until smooth.
Add chocolate chips and spread onto muffins.
Enjoy with a cuppa coffee. As Nic said, these taste very good warm! Thanks a TON for a keeper of a recipe!!
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About me: I am a freelance food writer, recipe developer and photographer. Food is my passion - baking, cooking, developing recipes, making recipes healthier, using fresh seasonal produce and local products, keeping a check on my carbon footprint and being a responsible foodie! I enjoy food styling, food photography, recipe development and product reviews. I express this through my food photographs which I style and the recipes I blog. My strength lies in 'Doing Food From Scratch'; it must taste as good as it looks, and be healthy too. Baking in India, often my biggest challenge is the non-availability of baking ingredients, and this has now become a platform to get creative on. I enjoy cooking immensely as well.
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30 thoughts on “CAPPUCCINO MUFFINS…got ’em right the second time!”
My kids don’t like the coffee flavor at all in anything but we adults would love these, looks yum! :))
oh Deeba these are my weak point. coffe and chocolate is my favourite and a coffee is my wake up call. These look heavenly Wish I can just grab one. Do you have a recipe for Tiramisu i really like it. I ll be posting a coffee recipe soon if you re interested 🙂
Glad to hear your unwitting science experiment worked… Baking powder is important! Ha ha ha. Looks fab. Now, I wonder if the young one reads this blog and remembers the lamp…
Hi Deeba, I love your blog and it can be considered as a bible for beginners in baking like me..I am striving to master the art of baking like you someday… I just have a question..Please clarify. I have tried baking chocolate cake twice and both the times it was so bitter and I had to just throw them away..I read in the internet that there are 2 types of cocoa powder and the usage of wrong cocoa powder caused the bitterness. I am also from India and I just have the usual cocoa powder that we get the super markets..Is there a different variety of cocoa powder tat is available in India that I can use to bake chocolate cake? It would be really helpful if you can give some idea on this. Thank you in advance. Priya.
Super delicious Deeba. Atleats the kids ate the first batch and cheers for youto making them again next day. I love coffee so i am sure i will love and adore this. I wull come over for this and you can come over for my ice cream 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend.
Love coffee flavour in muffins. Got to try these soon. BTW do they taste good without Icing. I am not comfortable yet to make the icing and also would love to keep it simple
Oh those are little beauties, I LOVE the chocolate decorations on the top! I am so glad you all enjoyed them! You always make me laugh, ‘hanging around suspiciously’ – I’ve got a mental picture and it’s so funny!! Thanks so much Deeba.
Deeba these are gorgous! I can’t tell you how many times I’v miss read a recipe cause I was in a hurry UGH!! Your first attempt tasted good though so it wasn’t a loss!!
Just made these..They are in the oven..Batter tasted really good! Love the amount of coffee in this! Thanks for sharing the recipe! 🙂 -Disha/ Fuchsia_D
My kids don’t like the coffee flavor at all in anything but we adults would love these, looks yum! :))
Gorgeous muffins! Beautiful pictures!
Dear Deeba I think you are the Queen of the pics of blogger world, I love your pictures and these muffins look wonderful, really!!! xxGloria
That looks so yummy…I too love the coffee flavour in anything and everything…the muffins look great…I’m gonna make this soon…such an easy recipe:)
I wish I could eat cakes or cookies again, would love to taste these!!
Love the pics Deeba and those muffins look scrumptious. I’m not a big fan of coffee, but I’m going to try these for hubby.
oh Deeba these are my weak point. coffe and chocolate is my favourite and a coffee is my wake up call. These look heavenly Wish I can just grab one. Do you have a recipe for Tiramisu i really like it. I ll be posting a coffee recipe soon if you re interested 🙂
love the coffee flavour in anything and everything…those muffins look delicious!!
Glad to hear your unwitting science experiment worked… Baking powder is important! Ha ha ha. Looks fab. Now, I wonder if the young one reads this blog and remembers the lamp…
Deeba chocolate and coffee always make me supper happy 🙂
Irresistible muffins …the photos are gorgeous!!
Cheers,
Gera
Those are so beautiful! I would of ate the ‘flat’ ones too! I bet they were still delicious.
ohmy! those look absolutely scrumptious!!
You add a whole new meaning to the word “passionate”….
Just love your enthusiasm….
The muffins look awesome…. 🙂
Hi Deeba,
I love your blog and it can be considered as a bible for beginners in baking like me..I am striving to master the art of baking like you someday…
I just have a question..Please clarify.
I have tried baking chocolate cake twice and both the times it was so bitter and I had to just throw them away..I read in the internet that there are 2 types of cocoa powder and the usage of wrong cocoa powder caused the bitterness.
I am also from India and I just have the usual cocoa powder that we get the super markets..Is there a different variety of cocoa powder tat is available in India that I can use to bake chocolate cake? It would be really helpful if you can give some idea on this.
Thank you in advance.
Priya.
Hi Priya,
Can you mail at vindee@airtelmail.in. I don’t know how to reach you. Cheers Deeba
Wow makes me hungry…. Wish i was there….
Super delicious Deeba.
Atleats the kids ate the first batch and cheers for youto making them again next day.
I love coffee so i am sure i will love and adore this.
I wull come over for this and you can come over for my ice cream 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend.
Love coffee flavour in muffins. Got to try these soon. BTW do they taste good without Icing. I am not comfortable yet to make the icing and also would love to keep it simple
Oh those are little beauties, I LOVE the chocolate decorations on the top!
I am so glad you all enjoyed them! You always make me laugh, ‘hanging around suspiciously’ – I’ve got a mental picture and it’s so funny!!
Thanks so much Deeba.
You should write a cookbook. Your photos are gorgeous.
These are such beautiful muffins, love them..bet they tasted awesome!
Te han quedado perfectos, vaya delicia de muffins
Deeba these are gorgous! I can’t tell you how many times I’v miss read a recipe cause I was in a hurry UGH!! Your first attempt tasted good though so it wasn’t a loss!!
They look so tasty and cute.
These sound like cupcakes disguised as muffins! YUM!
Your photography is beautiful, as are your layouts for the collages. I don’t even like coffee and I want to make these!
I just made some muffins similar to these but your’s look way better. I like the addition of caster sugar and curd cheese!
I just made some muffins similar to these but your’s look way better. I like the addition of caster sugar and curd cheese!
I love that coffee prayer, I feel the same way! These look tremendous! Have you gotten a food stylist job yet?
Just made these..They are in the oven..Batter tasted really good! Love the amount of coffee in this! Thanks for sharing the recipe! 🙂
-Disha/ Fuchsia_D