Preheat oven to 350 F. Line cupcake pan with cupcake liners and set aside.

In a mixing bowl, with a wire whisk, mix first 6 ingredients. Add flour, cocoa powder, coffee granules and baking soda and combine. Fill cupcake liners 3/4 of the way and bake for 22-28 minutes. I baked mine for 24 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.

For the ganache, in a sauce pan bring heavy cream to a light boil. Turn heat off and add chocolate chips whisking until chocolate chips melt. Incorporate the coffee granules.

Dip each cupcake in the ganache. You can leave cupcakes as is or decorate using anything you desire. I decorated cupcakes with some white chocolate shavings using a potato peeler.

Tip: I normally freeze half of the cupcakes in a ziplog bag to use in the future. They freeze rather good ;-)