Mocha Muffins

It's all Stan's fault. He said Coach Drew had a muffin top. Drew then pointed out that so did Stan. Since then Drew has lost the muffin top but not the... er... "handle". He still gets called Coach Muffin Top once in a while.

So for his birthday his "partner" Coach Alan asked if I could make muffin tops. And so I did. Out of this recipe. I'm assuming they'll be just as good in muffin form.

Mocha Muffins

3 eggs
1 cup buttermilk (or 1 cup regular milk and 1 tablespoon lemon juice or white vinegar 'cause no one has buttermilk in the fridge... except my dad but he makes muffins 2 or 3 times a week)
1/2 cup of strong coffee (I used espresso) cooled to room temperature
1 tsp of vanilla
1/2 cup of oil * see below for a note on this

1 1/2 cup flour
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
3 ounces of grated good quality dark dark chocolate * see below
1 cup light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 cup "chips" i.e. butterscotch, chocolate, white chocolate, peanut butter.

* don't want to grate the chocolate: can't blame you it's a pain instead use 1/3 cup dutch cocoa powder and increase the oil by 3 tablespoons

Whisk together wet ingredients.

In another (bigger bowl) mix together dry ingredients.

Fold in liquidy mixture. Fold until just combined. Too much mixing with make the muffins tough and chewy.

Bake 20-25 minutes at 375F. Or 15 minutes for tops :)

Makes 12 regular muffins (or 22 tops in my pan). Don't for get to use muffin cups or spray the pan before loading it so that they don't stick.