- Today is Father's Day, and in honour of the fathers I am spending my day with (every one of them has diabetes), I made this high fiber, lower sugar mocha mini cupcakes. The original recipe (found on paleoomg: http://paleomg.com/double-chocolate-almond-espresso-muffins/) looked amazing, but as usual for me, contained ingredients I either didn't have on hand or didn't feel like using. I also don't like using my precious nut butters in recipes unless absolutely necessary. So, here's my version - good enough for my mother and sister in law to request extras!
- 2 eggs
- 2 T. Flax meal mixed w/2 T. Hot water
- 2 T. Coconut oil
- 1/4 c. maple syrup
- 1 1/2 t. vanilla extract
- 3/4 c. Almond meal
- 1/2 c. cocoa powder
- 1/4 c. coconut flour
- 1 t. Finely ground or instant coffee
- 1/2 t. baking soda
- 1/2 t. baking powder
- 1/8 t. cinnamon
- 1/8 t. salt
- ½ cup Enjoy Life Mini Chocolate Chips
All ingredients assembled:
Preheat oven to 350. Whisk the flax meal with the hot water and let sit. Melt coconut oil just barely in a large bowl. Whisk in maple syrup and vanilla. Add the egg and flax meal and whisk or beat with egg beaters until smooth.
Mix all the dry ingredients together. I sifted them to get all the cocoa chunks broken up.
You can see I didn't melt the coconut oil. I recommend you do:
