1 3/4 c All-purpose flour
1/2 c Dk.brown sugar,firmly packed
1 tb Baking powder
1/4 ts Salt
3/4 c Milk
2 tb Instant coffee
1 ts Vanilla extract
1/2 c Unsalted butter, melted
1 lg Egg, lightly beaten
1 c Pecans, chopped
Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease 8 lg. muffin cups. In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. In a medium-sized bowl, combine milk, instant coffee powder, vanilla extract, butter, and egg. Let stand for 5 minutes. Add mixture to flour mixture and mix “lightly”. Fold in pecans. Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups. Bake 20 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean. Remove muffin tin to wire rack. Cool 5 minutes before removing muffins from cups, finish cooling on rack. From the recipe files of suzy@bestweb.net —–