Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

These Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins are great for a quick, energizing breakfast, or a lighter, chocolatey dessert. 

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

If you couldn’t tell by the addition of coffee in this recipe, I’ve become slightly obsessed with adding coffee to almost everything. I just love the delicious subtlety the coffee flavor adds.

Since I used instant coffee for both of these recipes (as opposed to regular ground coffee), I thought I would explain why. The reason instant coffee is used in baking instead of your usual, ground coffee, is because instant coffee (freeze-dried coffee) requires no further liquid to add that coffee flavor. Instant coffee is easily rehydratable, hence the term instant coffee: a cup of coffee can be made in an instant with the addition of hot water.

When baking, the ingredient proportions are so sensitive that instant coffee is the recommended way to go. If you add regular, fine coffee in the mix, you’ll end up having to compensate and add extra liquids, which throws everything off.

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Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

To get a more intense coffee flavor in your baking, you can switch out the instant coffee for instant espresso!

These muffins are…

Whole wheat
Oil/butter-free
Sweet
Chocolatey
Energizing
Moist

These muffins can also be made dairy-free by subbing in dairy-free chocolate chips.

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

The batter will be on the thicker side; don’t worry! That’s how it’s supposed to be. However, this does mean you should keep an eye on your muffins while they are baking to prevent over-baking them and drying them out.

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Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins
Ingredients
  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • 2/3 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 3 tbs instant coffee or espresso
  • 2/3 cup chocolate almond milk
  • 5 tbs vanilla Greek yogurt
  • 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Pre-heat your oven to 400 degrees and grease a muffin tin.
  2. Combine the wet ingredients in a bowl. Mix well.
  3. Add the instant coffee, the sugar and the baking powder. Combine with a whisk until mixed well.
  4. Add the flour in batches and whisk together.
  5. Fold in the chocolate chips.
  6. Using a spoon or an ice cream scoop, scoop the batter into each muffin tin.
  7. Bake for 15-18 minutes. Keep an eye on them!

 

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

 

Your turn:
What is one ingredient you are currently obsessed with?
Do you eat muffins for dessert, too? (Or am I just weird?)

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Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Comments

  1. Audra says

    I can’t find chocolate almond milk. How much cocoa powder do you recommend adding if I try to make my own?

  2. says

    Which ONE ingredient? Makin’ it tough here. LOL
    I eat muffins for breakfast, but I think an espresso and one of these muffins for afternoon would work out just fine.

    Wouldn’t using the same amount of espresso powder as instant coffee make it a little too potent?

    • says

      Hi Bob! I actually made this recipe last week using espresso! It amplified the coffee flavor but it wasn’t too potent. I say if you’re going to make them, do it with instant coffee first, and then if you feel like you want them to be more bold, try ’em with espresso. Thanks for the comment!

  3. says

    I don’t have whole wheat flour where I live but I totally want to make this. Because, coffee. You know. 😉 Anywho, can I get away with using all-purpose flour instead?

  4. says

    Love your blog! Started a new high protein diet 4 weeks ago, and alas have not found a protein cake recipe that hasn’t been dry and tasteless… this looks great, will be trying out later!!! Only just discovered your blog, favorited and now a regular viewer!

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