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    Home » Recipes

    Chocolate Chip Muffins Moist and Easy

    by Patti Estep · Mar 4, 2022

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    This moist chocolate chip muffin recipe is simple to make. Tasty enough for breakfast but sweet enough to eat any time of day.

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    Chocolate lovers unite! Here's an easy recipe for a moist chocolate chip muffin. Seems like a dessert, right? However, if people can eat donuts, chocolate croissants and add chocolate chips to pancakes, why not muffins? In fact, this simple recipe is great to eat any time of day.

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    Making Moist Chocolate Chip Muffins

    As with many muffin or quick bread recipes, you mix your dry ingredients together separately from the wet ingredients. Remember when recipes asked you to sift flour with other dry ingredients? A quick solution is to simply use a wire whisk to mix them together.

    Chocolate chips dusted with flour in a mixing bowl.

    Dust the chocolate chips in a little extra flour to help keep them from sinking together in a lump at the bottom of the muffin. However, don't forget to keep some aside to place on top of the muffins before baking. I usually keep about 1/3 cup for the tops.

    Chocolate chip muffin batter in a mixing bowl with a spatula

    Another key component to keep your muffins light and airy is to avoid over-mixing. When you combine the dry ingredients with the wet try not to mix it too much. When you add the chocolate chips just fold them in.

    Chocolate chip muffin batter in a muffin baking tray.

    Often you only want to fill the muffin tray 3/4 of the way however, this recipe will yield a full cup. Follow up with the reserved chocolate chips and a dusting of coarse sugar. (optional)

    Baked moist chocolate chip muffins in a muffin pan.

    This results in nice big muffins with crispy muffin tops and moist and airy muffins.

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    Moist chocolate chip muffins on a cooling rack.

    More Muffin Baking Tips

    • Use 1/2 butter and 1/2 oil for moist and tasty muffins.
    • Bring ingredients to room temperature for easier and better mixing.
    • Spray the entire muffin pan inside and top to prevent sticking.
    Chocolate chip muffins on a cooling rack in the background and two in the foreground.

    Whether you eat them for breakfast or throughout the day these moist chocolate chip muffins are a tasty treat you'll want to make again and again.

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    Moist Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe

    This is an easy recipe for moist chocolate chip muffins that taste great. A delicious treat for a great breakfast or anytime snack.
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 20 minutes mins
    Total Time 35 minutes mins
    Course Breakfast Recipes
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12
    Calories 379 kcal

    Ingredients
      

    • 2 cups all purpose flour
    • 1 tablespoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 1/4 cup softened butter
    • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
    • 1 large egg
    • 1 cup granulated sugar
    • 1 cup whole milk
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    • 12 ounce bag of chocolate chips reserve 1/3 cup
    • 2 tablespoons coarse sugar for dusting

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
    • Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl with a wire whisk.
    • In a separate large mixing bowl add butter, oil, and sugar.
    • Beat well with and hand mixer or stand mixer.
    • To the sugar mixture add vanilla and egg and mix well.
    • Next, add the milk and stir with a rubber spatula.
    • Add 1/2 of the flour mixture and gently mix by hand with the spatula.
    • Add the remaining flour mixture and stir until just combined.
    • Fold in chocolate chips.
    • Spray a muffin tin or use paper liners.
    • Divide the batter evenly among 12 muffin cups.
    • Sprinkle extra chocolate chips on top.
    • Then sprinkle coarse sugar.
    • Bake for 20 minutes or until they start to brown on the edges and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
    • Remove and allow to cool for a few minutes before removing to a cooling rack.

    Notes

    Tossing the chocolate chips in a little flour will help keep them from sinking in the batter.
    Bringing the ingredients to room temperature first helps them mix together better and results in a lighter muffin.
    Use 1/2 butter and 1/2 oil for moist and tasty muffins.
    Spray the top of the entire muffin pan inside and top to prevent sticking.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1gCalories: 379kcalCarbohydrates: 54gProtein: 5gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 9gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 347mgFiber: 2gSugar: 35g

    Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although attempts have been made to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.

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    About Patti Estep

    Patti is the creator of Hearth and Vine, a home and garden blog filled with projects to inspire your creative side. She loves crafting, gardening, decorating and entertaining at her home in Pennsylvania. When she is not working on a project at home or searching for treasures at nurseries and thrift stores with her girlfriends, you’ll probably find her with family and friends, at a restaurant, or home party enjoying new and different food adventures.

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    1. Katy

      June 19, 2022 at 7:45 am

      Was so excited to make these for my husband for Father’s Day, but the tops came out completely flat 🙁
      A quick Google search suggests this recipe calls for too much baking powder for the amount of flour used.

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      • Patti Estep

        June 19, 2022 at 10:08 am

        Katy, I'm sorry they didn't work out for you. That is the recipe I used and the tops were fine. However, I do know that baking can be difficult. Ovens vary, temperatures of the ingredients etc. I hope you enjoyed the taste of the muffins at least and have a Happy Father's Day.

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