Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins & Meal Planning Made Easy

Because school is starting very soon, I have been trying to get things in line for our dinners.  Everything seems to go crazy once school ramps up and we will still need to eat in the middle of that chaos.  Last week I started putting dinner ideas on my Plan to Eat calendar.  That went over well, so this week I added snacks and breakfast muffins.  I thought I’d share the recipe to these Chocolate Chip Coffee muffins with you.  I hope you enjoy them!

Chocolate Chip Coffee Muffins

Source: www.myrecipes.com

Course: Breakfast

Prep Time: 20 Min

Cook Time: 15 Min

Total Time: 35 Min

Serves: 12

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup whole milk
• 5 tablespoons butter melted
• 3 tablespoons instant coffee granules
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 large egg lightly beaten
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400°. Line 12 muffin pan.
2. Combine first 5 ingredients.
3. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients (through salt) in a large bowl; stir well with a whisk. Make a well in center of flour mixture. Add milk mixture to flour mixture; stir just until moist.
4. Spoon batter into 12 muffin cups. Bake at 400° for 18 minutes or until done. Remove muffins from pan immediately; place on a wire rack.

Amount Per Serving
Calories: 214
Fat: 7.9g
Cholesterol: 29mg
Sodium: 163mg
Fiber: 1g
Protein: 3.6g

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Orange Cranberry Tea Biscuits

Today our youngest daughter walked in the room with a tray for tea, pretend tea.  She offered it to me and asked if I would like a biscuit.  Of course I did!  And after we had our tea and biscuits, I asked if she’d ever had an actual tea biscuit before.  She had not, so I offered to make some.  I didn’t have a recipe, but I was certain I could find one.  I scoured the internet looking for tea biscuits.  Many had ingredients I don’t keep on hand, so I kept looking.  I came across one on Cooks.com called Welsh Tea Biscuits.  The recipe sounded fairly simple.  The only real problem was that I didn’t have an electric skillet or a way to determine the temperature of a skillet.  I had to change the way I’d cook them, so I decided I’d change the recipe to an orange cranberry flavor too. 

Chocolate? Yes, please!

Today I am sharing some chocolate recipes from some of my favorite sites. And withValentine’s day around the corner, I think chocolate is its perfect pair.  I’m not sure how to share the pictures from these sites, but I’ve linked you to them.  They are worth a look.  You will not be disappointed.

First there is Heidi Swanson of 101cookbooks.com.  She lives in San Francisco and has the ability to find just about any ingredient she desires.  Lucky girl.  She’s written several books, I have 3 of them.  I reach for these time and time again.  I discovered her last year after my husband returned from a trip to Harvard.  He brought books home for all of us.

Lane’s Chicken Noodle Soup

Earlier this week, I promised my sister Erin that I would post a couple of our favorite recipes on the blog.  Since this is a new thing we are doing together, I haven’t quite got my blogging schedule figured out yet.  Let’s just say, between having a baby that still wakes up every couple of hours, plus two other kids that have school, church, and other extra curricular activities-it can get pretty hectic around our house…Did I mention my husband caught a stomach virus this week?  Which leads me to my first recipe.  When someone is feeling under the weather at our house this is the first thing I make.  I guess I got that from my Grandmother. She was always ready to whip up some of her homemade chicken noodle soup and deliver it when we were sick.  It was the best!  Although this is not her recipe, which includes making your own stock and rolling the noodles by hand, it is quite delicious and can be ready to eat in about 45 minutes.

Assignment Complete!

That was A LOT of work!  I’m thrilled it is done.  I’m lucky enough that my kids love to play outside, they were able to do things with family and friends for a while, and even chip in on the kitchen cleanse.  Apartment Therapy really put our household to work this weekend.

I originally posted from my sister’s house on Friday and had hoped to take pictures of the before for her.  Unfortunately, we left her house in such a hurry I left my camera there.  That means there are not going to be before and after pictures of this.  What I can tell you is that it feels GREAT to have accomplished the scrub down.

I can hardly believe we finished.