Recipe: Coffee Walnut Chocolate Chip Muffins

Coffee Walnut Chocolate Chip Muffins
From: The Frog Commissary in Philadelphia
Makes: 12

1/2 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
3 tablespoons instant coffee
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 whole eggs
2/3 cup milk
1 3/4 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 cup semi-sweet chips
1 1/2 cups walnuts, coarsely chopped

Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour tin. Dissolve the instant coffee in the vanilla extract. Cream butter with the sugars, coffee and vanilla. Beat together the eggs and milk. Combine the flour, salt, and baking powder. Alternately add the wet and dry ingredients to the butter mixture. Stir just to combine. Add chips and walnuts. Fill tins full. Bake 25 minutes. Cool 5 minutes, then remove from tins and cool on rack.