2 Cappuccino Muffin Recipes and an Espresso Spread

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I get up and bake something for the kids most days before school. I’d say I’m baking muffins two to three times during the school week and sometimes on the weekend. Once you know how to make muffins, you won’t be able to stop either.

This recipe for Cappuccino Muffins with Chocolate Chips comes into play often.

Want to get to the recipes?

Click on the links in the table of contents below (jump to “Homemade Muffins Recipes Make Morning Better” to get to both recipes). Otherwise, the rest of us will take a look at the cookbooks containing both recipes for cappuccino muffins, and then mosey our way into the kitchen to make muffins.

Table of Contents

• Cookbooks in this Article
• Bed and Breakfast Cookbooks
• Inside The American Country Inn and Bed & Breakfast Cookbook
• Inside The Taste of Home Most Requested Cookbook
• Homemade Muffins Recipes Make Morning Better
• Bake Homemade Cappuccino Muffins with Chocolate Chips
• Related Recipes

Cookbooks in this Article

Bed and Breakfast Cookbooks

This is my youngest son’s favorite muffin (at the time of this writing, he’s 12, going on 35). I like to make them on a Monday as a “welcome to the start of a good week” kind of thing. If I skipped that school week, I’ll make them on the weekend because we all love them.

If I feel like making fancy muffins, I opt for the cappuccino spread. Sometimes I make that cappy muffin recipe, other times I make our usual, and add in the spread from the other cookbook. They are all wonderful no matter what combo you choose.

I love this cookbook series. I have The American Country Inn and Bed and Breakfast Cookbook Volume One and Volume Two.

The authors published another book in 2004 along the same lines: Best Recipes from American Country Inns and Bed & Breakfasts with more than 1,500 recipes.

It’s just as good as the others.

My books by Kitty and Lucian Maynard are getting rather covered in flour and my notes (and, apparently, the cat). If you aren’t familiar with these cookbooks, let’s take a look, so you can see why I am a raving fan.

We loved staying at bed and breakfasts while we traveled around Indiana. Yes, even with a toddler in tow (way back when) and through the years. Innkeepers by and large were (and are) simply wonderful.

Some had cats, dogs, or horses to pet, others had interesting toys they’d bring out that belonged to their kids or grandkids.

A few got down on the floor and played with our boys because they enjoyed having kids around so much. Kids along or not, snacks such as homemade fudgy brownies or cookies or even pie were often supplied “just for fun.”

One of the best parts of a bed and breakfast is right there in the name: The breakfast! Innkeepers pile it on. I never knew how busy my day would become, so I needed a big breakfast. Bed and breakfasts were always reliable in that regard — and it was always delicious.

That’s why The American Country Inn and Bed & Breakfast cookbook is especially exciting to me. We can recreate the foods we loved at B&B’s at home.

Inside The American Country Inn and Bed & Breakfast Cookbook

My “Bed and Breakfast” copies are used and I was happy to see an index card someone left inside Volume One of recipes they tried or wanted to try. I think you should write in your cookbooks, too. That’s my favorite thing.

Published in 1987 and 1990 and 2004, these cookbooks are huge. Volume One is 511 pages, Volume Two is 628-pages long, and the 2004 book is 499 pages (that’s including the index). There are two indexes in each book. One is an index of cities and business names, while the other is an index of the recipes.

Unlike other cookbooks, the chapters in the bed and breakfast cookbooks aren’t broken down into meal type or category.

The 50 states, plus the District of Columbia and even Canada make up the chapters in the first two volumes, while the third book skips Canada and Washington D.C. Within each chapter, you then have whatever bed and breakfasts decided to participate, with that bed and breakfast’s recipes following the heading.

Each bed and breakfast in the book includes:

• Name
• Location
• Address
• Phone number
• A long or short introduction

The number of included recipes, and the type, vary with each bed and breakfast. Many bed and breakfasts only offer one recipe, while others included a couple pages of recipes in a range of categories.

Some bed and breakfast recipes include a brief summary or a tip (or how it relates to the B&B somehow). The majority of recipes are homemade, which I prefer. You just don’t know what you will find. It is fun to see if there are recipes from B&B’s you’ve visited.

I’ve made plenty from these cookbooks, but an all-time favorite is Chicken Elizabeth. It’s great for company and delightful.

You won’t find images in this cookbook. You will find sepia-toned illustrations featuring many of the bed and breakfasts. Not every B&B includes an illustration of a featured bed and breakfast, but it is a neat touch. I enjoy seeing what the place looks like.

Bed and breakfast headings are listed in black bold-face font, while the recipe titles are written in brown.

Inside The Taste of Home Most Requested Cookbook

Then there is the Taste of Home cookbook. In case you are unfamiliar with the brand, they are a crowd-sourced cookbook that nicely display the submitter’s name and location (which I like).

The recipes are typically simple, with a mix of scratch recipes and recipes that use packaged items.

In the Taste of Home Most Requested Recipes cookbook, there is an entire chapter called “Quick and Easy” that is useless to me. That sounds harsh, I know, but I prefer to avoid boxed stuff.

Chapters inside this Taste of Home Most Requested Recipes cookbook include:

• Editors’ Favorites
• Snacks and Appetizers
• Breakfast and Brunch
• Soups and Sandwiches
• Sides, Salads, and Breads
• Main Dishes
• Guilt-Free Fare
• Quick and Easy
• Seasonal Selections
• Dessert

I am pleased to report that I have made a few recipes from multiple chapters in the 248-page book (including the index) that are more our style. These include: Grandma’s Honey Muffins, Chocolate Cake, Fiesta Dip, and Cappuccino Muffins. They were all winners in my house.

Homemade Muffins Recipes Make Morning Better

Funny thing, I had a recipe clipping of the muffins, but with a longer title, from Taste of Home or Quick Cooking magazine (I’m not sure), but I misplaced it. I looked through my muffin cookbooks before I remembered it was a TOH-brand recipe.

Luckily, I got back on track, and the recipe I wanted was included in the TOH Most Requested cookbook. That was a great surprise.

Now if only I could find their recipe for diced breakfast potatoes that used evaporated milk. That’s about all I remember of it, except that it was so good. I lost the clipping at least a decade ago. I have no idea where it could have gone. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?

You wanna know what else is a great surprise?

A muffin that makes everyone happy (and it’s not just the minimal caffeine talkin’ either). Make either muffin. Make the spread — or don’t. However you spin this, these cappy-flavored muffins are wonderful.

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Bake Homemade Cappuccino Muffins with Chocolate Chips

If you need more muffin related info, read the history of muffins and find out how they were invented and how they’ve changed. It’s funny and interesting.

If you’re craving more cappuccino flavor, view this Cappuccino Brownies recipe next. Enjoy!

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