Made with espresso, chocolate, and marscapone, these muffins will wake you the f*ck up….but in Italian so it sounds nicer.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 (8 oz.) package mascarpone cheese
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1 egg, room temperature
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• ¼ cup finely ground espresso beans
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (I like a lot of chocolate chips)

DIRECTIONS

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.  Beat mascarpone cheese and butter together until fluffy. Beat in egg, milk, and vanilla.
• Combine the flour, espresso, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a separate bowl. Stir flour mixture into wet mixture until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
• Spoon batter into 12 prepared lined muffin cups.  Filling them until they are almost full. I filled mine up all the way and had no problems with overflowing. They made a nice full muffin top.

Bake for about 20 min or until the top is golden brown.

I altered this recipe.