Chocolate Chip Muffins
Another muffin recipe?? Yes!
When I purchase a new item for my kitchen (muffin pan), I tend to become a little bit obsessed with it. But I had been craving something chocolate chip for a while now and since I don’t have a cookie sheet at the moment (sad. someone want to give me a gift card to Williams Sonoma? Crate and Barrel? Sur la Table?), I decided to make muffins.
Most of the time I enjoy rich dark chocolate, but every once in a while milk chocolate is just so good. Also, milk chocolate’s flavor isn’t overpowering. So this recipe calls for milk chocolate chips and if you buy Ghiradelli brand milk chocolate chips, they’re huge! I like when recipes for sweet baked goods include both white and brown sugar, I find it produces a much better depth of flavor instead of just being sickly sweet.
I didn’t have any muffin liners so I greased the pan with Pam butter flavor spray. Something weird happened though. When the muffins had cooled enough in the pan to be taken out to rest on the cooling rack, I found that the chocolate chips that baked on the bottom or the sides of the muffins stuck to the pan and left a hole in the muffin were the chocolate chip was. I ended up with a pan full of half melted chocolate chips and muffins with crater-like holes in them. It was weird. I don’t know if it was the Pam spray or the giant Ghiradelli chips but either way next time I’ll use muffin liners. Its easier to clean up too.
These muffins last for a few days when stored in an airtight container. I like to reheat mine in the microwave so that they are warm and the chocolate is a little melted.
Chocolate Chip Muffins
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- 1/3 cup light brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1/2 cup butter (melted and cooled)
- 2 eggs (lightly beaten)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 (11 1/2 oz) package milk chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Grease 12 muffin tin cups or use muffin liners. In a large bowl mix together flour, white sugar, brown sugar, baking powder and salt.
In another bowl stir together eggs, milk, butter and vanilla until well blended. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour the milk mixture into the well and stir until combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
Spoon batter into muffins tins. Place into the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean and the edges are lightly browned. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
I love chocolate chip muffins and these look fabulous!
Yum! Your muffins sound delicious! The chocolate might have stuck with the PAM depending on the type of coating on the pan. I find that greasing and flouring the pan typically works better than sprays when it comes to baked goods.
okay, so clearly you are also having a bit of a muffin obsession yourself. You know what, this post made me realize that I have never actually baked chocolate chip muffins myself. I think I am going to make these into some mini muffins. Nice!
If all your muffins look like that, keep making them. Yum!
Pamela- Thank you!!
Jen- Yeah greasing and flouring is the best way, it just takes so much extra time when I'm craving something sweet
Sara- Hahaha I think we both need counseling. Good idea on the mini muffins! I don't have a mini muffin pan at the moment
Joanne- Thanks! I will
Tessa these muffins looks delicious!
By the way this is Lauren A from TJB!
You can never have too many muffins!
The muffins are baking as we speak! I used buttermilk instead of milk because I find it makes the batter more moist and I used dark brown sugar instead of the light brown sugar (because I ran out of light brown sugar hehe) and they look perfect (so far) hehe
Thanks for the recipe Tessa!
Also, I must say that when I look for recipes online and the picture isn't nice, I tend to not even look at the recipe.. your picture taking is AMAZING. May I ask you what camera you use? Keep it up and I hope culinary school is going well! (going to culinary school is my dream but I am finishing up medical school first!)
Take care,
Lara
These look so goood!! I'm actually drooling haha.
jus made these…came out perfect except for the sweetness in the muffins…i think the recipe requires more sugar.
I read somewhere else that if you dredge ever so lightly the chocolate chips before adding to the dough it helps “lift it up”.
My 8 year old asked for chocolate chip muffins this morning. I made this recipe and the kids had them for their after school snack. They devoured them! Yummy muffins.
I am now making these muffins a fourth time! It is a great recipe. We also like it with blueberries in it instead of chocolate chips!
I just made these and they were delicious and a big hit at my house!
how many do they make?