Mocha Chocolate Chip Muffins

Mocha Chocolate-Chip Muffins

1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, and more for sprinkling on top
3 Tbsp cocoa powder
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup strong coffee, room temperature
1/3 cup, plus 2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract

Sift all dry ingredients together in a bowl.

In a large measuring cup, mix all wet ingredients.
Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir ONLY till moistened. It's very important not to over-mix or they can get very tough.

Line a muffin tin with paper liners and fill with batter. Sprinkle with some of the remaining chocolate chips and then baked for 18 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

Makes 12 good size muffins

My new sock design

Oblique Sock with Round Toe. This is an easy to knit sock with an 8 row pattern repeat. Easy to memorize but not boring. Featuring a Dutch heel, and a round toe. Knit on size 1 DPN from the top down. http://mrae123.etsy.com

Sunset hand dyed, handspun yarn

Have you ever enjoyed a Beautiful golden sunset? That time of day when the sun begins to fall below the horizon. I tried to capture the beautiful colors of the sunset in this yarn. I hand dyed this yarn with blue, gold, purple, and burnt orange dyes to get the look of a beautiful sunset. Then I hand spun this wool into 122 yards, of DK weight yarn at 13 WPI. This is a 2 ply yarn.

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But I did. It is a very interesting book. Read it.

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She is just the sweetest little girl.
We baked cookies.

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I bought this yesterday https://www.perfectbrownie.com/
and tried it out today.
I sprayed the heck out of it with cooking spray to make sure that my brownies would come out of the pan nicely.
I have to say that it was difficult getting my brownies out of this pan. I even put them in the refrigerator for a couple of hours to make sure that they were very cool.
I think that you need to flour and spray this divider thing.
But I did get nice square shaped brownies.
Be sure to use a cookie sheet when you bake with this brownie pan, because some of the batter did leak out of the bottom of the pan.

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I want to Thank everyone for entering my Handspun Yarn Giveaway. The winner of the Handspun Giveaway is momof2grls. She has a Knitting and Family blog at http://knittingmomof2grls.blogspot.com/