Mocha Chips Muffins

Adopted from the RecipeZaar account. I haven't made these yet.

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 8

Ingredients

• 1  cup flour
• 3  tablespoons  unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1⁄3 cup sugar, plus
• 1  tablespoon sugar
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1  dash salt
• 2⁄3 cup buttermilk
• 1  teaspoon  freeze-dried coffee granules
• 3  tablespoons olive oil
• 2  egg whites (or egg substitute equivalent to 1 egg)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla
• 3⁄4 cup  coarsely chopped bittersweet chocolate

• GLAZE

• 1⁄2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 -2  teaspoon brewed coffee

Directions

1. Directions:
2. Preheat oven to 375-degrees.
3. In large bowl, stir together flour, cocoa powder, granulated sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
4. Make sure cocoa is thoroughly mixed into flour.
5. In small bowl, stir together buttermilk and coffee granules until coffee dissolves.
6. Stir in olive oil, egg whites or substitute and vanilla.
7. Pour buttermilk mixture into flour mixture and stir with fork just to incorporate.
8. Stir in chocolate.
9. Spoon batter into 8 or 9 greased muffin tins, filling 3/4th’s full.
10. Bake in preheated oven 25 minutes or until tester inserted into center of muffins comes out clean.
11. Cool muffins on a wire rack.
12. To prepare glaze, in a small bowl, stir together powdered sugar and brewed coffee to make thick liquid mixture.
13. Drizzle over hot muffins and set aside until glaze is firm.