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This is more unique taste, and very delicious.     If you love both coffee and coco, you will love this muffin.  Homemade Coffee & Coco Muffins  ( 3 jumbo muffins )  Ingredients     * Butter ( unsalted ) – 30g * Pure Cane Golden Brown Sugar – 70g * Egg – 1 * Milk 55g * Coffee ( instant ) – 1 table spoon * Flour – 110g * Baking Powder – 3g * Olive oil – 30g * Coco powder – 2.5 tea spoons   How to make it ?  1. Melt the butter   and put it in a bowl. 2. add brown sugar into the bowl and mix with the melted butter. 3. add egg into the bowl. 4. Pour milk into a different bowl   or cup and warm it up in a microwave for about 15 to 20 seconds.   Then add instant coffee into the warm milk and mix it. 5. Put the coffee + milk into number 3. ( into the bowl ) 6. Mix with them and pour the half of it into the muffin maker,   pour about half amount for each of the holes in the muffin maker. ( coffee part done. ) 7.

Recently I’m enjoying cooking sweets !     I’ve never been into it before because personally I prefer to eat salty taste foods to sweets. Sweets are good sometimes, maybe it’s good to eat once or twice a week, but not always.  But my husband Ray eats Muffins every morning for breakfast.     He even puts creamy raw honey and whipped cream on top of it, which makes it even more sweet.  And looks like he is in a heaven.      He can eat sweets any time as a meal or snack. My image of Muffins is for afternoon tea time snack, and we were buying some muffins for snack, but since about several months ago, Ray changed his breakfast menu from cereal to muffins.  And we were always buying many kinds of muffins   such as blueberry muffins, banana muffins, etc.. in a super market. While I was looking at the recipes of many kind muffins, I found it not so difficult to make, like cheesecake.     And thought it’s more healthy to eat handmade muffins

Happy New Year , 2013 !   I wish 2013 will be filled with love, good health and happiness   for everyone in the world. The area I live in the USA   gets super dry especially winter season.  I had been trying many kinds of skin care for dry skin since I started living here. Actually, even when I was in Japan, I was always looking for something good for curing my dry skin problem. And a few days ago, I happened to find a Japanese discussion thread which talks about skin care cream. Guess what ? It’s Nivea .  Yes, original version of Nivea cream ! I suppose everyone knows that product. I was using Nivea cream when I was a little girl until I became 18.    Little girls are often curious what their mother is doing. In my case, it was my step-mother who was in her 20S at that time.  She was always doing her skin care with Shiseido-cosmetics with her make-up box with mirror after took a bath.     And I was copying what she wa