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Mocha Chocolate Muffins with Espresso

Deep, tender cocoa muffins with a hint of coffee, a moist crumb from sour cream and a crackly sugar top.

Mocha Chocolate Muffins with Espresso

Ingredients

  • 1¾ cups220 gAll-purpose flour
  • ½ cup50 gUnsweetened cocoa powder
  • ¾ cup170 gGranulated sugardivided: 160 g for the batter, 10 g for topping
  • 1⅛ tsp5 gBaking soda
  • ¾ tsp4 gBaking powder
  • ½ tsp3 gSalt
  • 4 shots120 gEspressobrewed hot
  • ½ cup120 gSour creamat room temperature
  • ¼ cup (60 ml)60 gWhole milk
  • 2 large100 gEggsat room temperature
  • ⅓ cup90 gCanola oil
  • 2 tsp8 gVanilla extract

Steps

  1. Heat the oven to 400°F (200°C) and line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk the unsweetened cocoa powder into the hot espresso until smooth; let this cocoa-espresso mixture cool for 5 minutes.
  3. In a large bowl, whisk the flour, the baking soda, the baking powder and the salt to make the dry mixture.
  4. Into the cooled cocoa-espresso mixture, whisk 160 g of the sugar (all but the 10 g topping portion), then the eggs, the canola oil, the sour cream, the whole milk and the vanilla until smooth.
  5. Pour the wet cocoa-espresso mixture into the dry mixture and fold with a spatula just until no dry flour remains; a few lumps are fine.
  6. Divide the batter evenly among the 12 liners, then sprinkle the remaining 10 g of sugar over the tops.
  7. Bake 5 minutes at 400°F (200°C), then lower the oven to 350°F (175°C) and bake 13 to 15 minutes more, until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
  8. Cool the muffins in the tin for 5 minutes, then move them to a rack to cool for at least 15 minutes before serving.

Food safety: Don't taste raw dough or batter: raw flour and raw eggs can carry germs.

Contains: Milk, Egg, Gluten.

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