Paleo Mini mocha muffins

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  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:

Mix he wet with the dry. Line muffin tins and then fill with chocolaty goodness. You can sprinkle with more mini chips if you have leftovers (I didn't). Cook for 12 min, then remove to cool on wire rack.