After three long months of hiatus from TWD, I'm glad to be back and baking along with this great group again. Still on a "temporary blogging break" to allow me some time to get readjusted to things back home, I'm keeping this post really short. Besides, you don't really need a lot of convincing on this week's pick by Rhiani of Chocoholic Anonymous : coffee-break muffins.
Deprived of the regular two to three times a day café breaks since my return from Paris, these muffins served as my perfect mid-day and afternoon pick-me-up today. Instead of the cup of coffee that Dorie prescribed in her recipe, I opted to use home-made trablit (liquid coffee extract) that was leftover from last week's test-bake.
Since the trablit already had caramelized sugar and I didn't like my muffins to be overly sweet, I omitted the brown sugar and also added some milk - I didn't quite measure precisely - but just enough to get to the proper muffin consistency. More on trablit the next time; be sure to head over to
TWD to see what other members have to say about this week's bake.
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