• 1 cup plain flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• 1 egg
• ¼ cup softened unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 2 pinches of salt
• ¼ cup of milk, at room temperature
• 3 tbsp brown sugar
• ½ tbsp coffee powder
• ¼ cup full dark chocolate chips
• 2-4 drops of vanilla extract
• For the sugar glaze (optional):
• 2 tbsp icing sugar
• ½ tbsp water

Preheat oven at 180oC.
Mix flour, baking powder and baking soda together using a fork and keep aside.

Whisk eggs, brown sugar, coffee powder and butter together in a large bowl using a blender until it’s smooth and combined. Add the vanilla extract and blend again for a couple of minutes.

Then add to it the flour mixture and milk and then fold everything together using a large spoon or spatula. You may run it through a blender once for 20-30 sec or just one whiz.

Then add the dark chocolate chip and gently mix once.
Line or grease a 6 muffin tins or tray, scope the mixture into each hole upto 3/4th of the height of the tin using a spoon.

Bake at for 17 minutes or until a knife comes out clean through the cupcake. Allow to rest on a wired rack for 10 minutes before serving.

If adding the glaze: mix sugar and water and drizzle on the top of each cupcake before resting on the wired rack.

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