Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Latte Muffins
By: CupcakeKat
Published: Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 7:44pm

Ingredients




1/4 cup white flour
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1/8 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup peanut butter (I used crunchy but smooth is fine too)
 cup sugar
1 egg or 1 flax egg
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons plus 2 tsp cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch baking soda
1/2 cup strongly brewed coffee, cooled
1/4 teaspoon salt (omit if using salted peanut butter)
For topping:
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Preparation

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line or grease six muffin tins 2 Mix together oil, peanut butter, and sugar in a small bowl. Then add the egg, vanilla, and coffee. Whisk to combine. 3 In another bowl combine white flour, whole wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. 4 Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined. 5 Fill muffin cups 2/3 of the way full 6 Combine the 2 tbsp peanut butter and 1/2 tsp cinnamon in a small bowl until incorporated. 7 Top each muffin with 1 tsp of this mixture. 8 Bake 20-25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. 9 Allow to cool before removing from tin.