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Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

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Chocolate or coffee? How do you choose between them, or do just combined them into chocolate chip coffee muffins like this? Maybe grab a cup of coffee to enjoy with this delicious snack too though, just to boost your caffeine intake. Because if you are a parent, you are probably needing a caffeine boost.

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

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What you need:

  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup unsalted butter melted and cooled
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp instant coffee
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

How to make Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins:

First step is to mix your instant coffee grounds with milk in a small bowl. Set this aside, the coffee grounds will dissolve more as it sits.

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Mix together your dry ingredients (minus the chocolate chips) while the coffee dissolves.

Add in the wet ingredients including the coffee and milk mixture. Mix well.

Fold in your chocolate chips. Mini chocolate chips are best for these I find, but regular ones are great too! Don’t over mix the chocolate chip in, you want fluffy muffins, but flat tough muffins.

chocolate coffee muffin recipe - muffin batter

Scoop out the batter into either a greased muffin tin or a muffin tin with cupcake liners. I like to use a 1/8 or 1/4 cup measuring cup to fill them equally and to insure equal cooking.

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Bake at 400 for 10 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Let them set for a couple minute before you try to move them onto a cooling rack.

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

These are one of my favorite muffin recipes. I love making these during the colder winter months, curling up with a cup of coffee and a great book. Invite some friends over for coffee and talking, or take them to the next homeschool group meetings for a treat for the moms.

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Yield: 12
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 15 minutes

I love making these during the colder winter months, curling up with a cup of coffee and a great book.

Ingredients

  • 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tbsp instant coffee
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 tbsp vanilla extract
  • 1 cup chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. First step is to mix your instant coffee grounds with milk in a small bowl.
  2. Mix together your dry ingredients (minus the chocolate chips) while the coffee disolves.
  3. Add in the wet ingredients, and mix well. Fold in your chocolate chips. Mini chocolate chips are best for these I find, but regular ones are great too!
  4. Scoop out the batter into either a greased muffin tin or a muffin tin with cupcake liners.
  5. Bake at 400°F for 10 minutes.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Snacks

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Chocolate Coffee Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

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I’m a chocolate lover, a peanut butter lover, put the two together in a cake and I’m mush. This chocolate coffee cake with peanut butter frosting is the undoing of all my hard work walking and watching what I eat. Just like the chocolate liquor cake he made recently, thank you honey,  just what I needed!

homemade chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

Chocolate Coffee Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

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I have could lick the frosting off the cake and be done. Our oldest, Austin, loves this chocolate cake… or the frosting in particular. Any time she sees her father in the kitchen going to bake something she begs for it. She has also now asked for this cake and the frosting for her birthday cake.

What you need:

For the Cake:

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 3/4 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cups cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk shaken and at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 extra-large eggs at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee or 2/3 cup coffee mixed with 1/3 cup of water

For the Frosting:

  • 2 sticks 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup smooth peanut butter
  • 1 1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1-2 tablespoons heavy cream or milk

How to make Chocolate Coffee Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting:

Grab your non-stick spray and grease two round pans, ours are nine inch pans.

Start adding ingredients into your mixer as per the cake recipe, mixing well, you don’t want to have flour lumps in your cake, nothing like that to turn you off your cake. Divide it evenly into the two round pans for baking.

Chocolate Coffee Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Bake for 35-40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean – my method for cake done-ness testing.

Let it cool for about 30 minutes, or set in the fridge/freezer for 10 minutes to speed up the cooling process if you can’t wait that long. While you are waiting for your cake to cool get making your peanut butter frosting.

Peanut Butter Frosting

Try to not eat the frosting straight from the bowl, leave some for the cake!

Spread some in the middle, some on the sides, and a lot on the top.

homemade chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

We still had some chocolate cookie crumbs from Gauge’s birthday cake that we sprinkle it over the top for a little extra.

Chocolate Coffee Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

So tell me, what would be your favorite type of frosting?

homemade chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

Chocolate Coffee Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting

Yield: 15
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 35 minutes
Inactive Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

This cake recipe will leave no one unhappy. Easy to make, with big flavor.

Ingredients

For the Cake

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 3/4 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cups cocoa powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk, shaken and at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee, or 2/3 cup coffee mixed with 1/3 cup of water

For the Frosting

  • 2 sticks, 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup smooth peanut butter
  • 1 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1-2 tablespoons heavy cream or milk

Instructions

For the Cake

  1. Preheat the oven to 350. Grease two 8-inch x 2-inch round cake pans.
  2. Mix the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
  3. Mix together the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla.
  4. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix until just incorporated, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
  5. Add the coffee and stir just to combine. Give a final stir with a rubber spatula to make sure the bottom and sides are fully incorporated.
  6. Pour the batter evenly into the prepared pans.
  7. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
  8. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

For the Frosting

  1. Add the butter and peanut butter to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk at medium-high speed until smooth, about 20 seconds.
  2. Add confectioners' sugar and salt and beat until mixed.
  3. Add the vanilla and cream and beat at medium speed until mixed.
  4. Increase speed to medium-high and beat until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes, scraping down the bowl a few times during mixing.
  5. Place 1 layer of the cake on a flat plate or cake stand. With a knife or offset spatula, spread the top with frosting. Place the second layer on top, and spread the frosting evenly on the top and sides of the cake. Garnish with cookies crumbs as desired.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
© Ashley Mullen
Category: Dessert

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Coffee Filter Sun Catchers

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Kids are getting bored of sitting around without something new to entertain them, or maybe you are just tried of listening to them whine about being bored and needing something to do. I don’t know, but this should give them something to do for a few minutes at least. This easy coffee filter sun catcher should keep them busy for a little bit while you take a moment to breathe.

Easy Coffee Filter Sun Catcher

Easy Coffee Filter Sun Catcher Craft

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This here is a simple, super cheap craft to brighten up your home, especially if you are a coffee drinker. Or maybe you don’t want to hand out your coffee filters all willy-nilly, and decide to pass on this craft, at least makes sure you have enough filters to make it through to your next grocery run/Amazon order.

You can easily turn these sun catchers into a fun little craft for any time of year. These can also be cut into an egg shape for Easter, a heart for Valentine’s Day, a snowflake, or even a flower. Let your kids use their imaginations.

What you need:

What you need to do:

  • flatten a coffee filter
  • color with markers.
  • spray with water or drop water onto it with a dropper
Coffee Filter Sun Catcher

Blending the colors on your coffee filter:

There are a few different ways that you can blend the colors together. A spray bottle on mist. Or as we used, a dropper. My one tip would be to make sure you have something under it. I used a dishtowel. Some thing to soak up the water (and color).

Coffee Filter Sun Catcher

As you can see, once you’ve added water any and all of the water uncolored spots are gone.

Easy Coffee Filter Sun Catcher Craft

These are a beautiful simple way to brighten up a room. A child of any age can do this. There is no set up required, and basically no clean up, just throw the towel in the hamper.

Messy Friday: Coffee Grounds

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I recently bought a second hand water and sand table. It’s too late in the year to buy sand, in my opinion, but that doesn’t been we can’t find other uses for it. I have gotten in the habit of saving my used coffee grounds, because you know, you just never know when you might need them for entertaining.

I took the kiddos outside the other day and the gathered around the sand table wondering what to do with it. How much fun can they have with it empty? Apparently none.
That’s right, my kids whom seem to be able to do anything with anything didn’t know what to make of the empty sand and water table.

Austin and Brookland have gotten used to my giving them weird things to play with that they now dive into anything head first so to speak.

This was no exception… a bowl of flour and a container of coffee.

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Coffee Ground Playdough

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If you drink ground coffee then chance are you’ll be able to make this playdough. Instead of tossing your grounds in the garbage or where you put them. Instead, put them into a container and store in the fridge (to keep from molding).

Once you have a coup worth, you’re good to go.

I am a first thing in the morning gotta have a coffee coffee drinker. Therefore we have a lot of used coffee grounds going into our compost bin. So I decided to do some thing a little different with them. I started saving them in a Rubbermaid container in the fridge.

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