Instructions: Preheat oven to 400 F. Grease 8 lg. muffin cups.

In a large bowl, stir together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

In a medium-sized bowl, combine milk, instant coffee powder, vanilla extract, butter, and egg. Let stand for 5 minutes. Add mixture to flour mixture and mix "lightly". Fold in pecans. Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups.

Bake 20 minutes, or until a cake tester comes out clean.

Remove muffin tin to wire rack.

Cool 5 minutes before removing muffins from cups, finish cooling on rack.

If you would like to email yourself the recipe for later use, or share the recipe with your friends or family, enter the email addresses below and this recipe will be emailed to you and others as well.