These Best Ever Chocolate Chip Muffins are the perfect sweet treat for breakfast, brunch or snack. Make this recipe for moist, tender muffins packed with sweet chocolate chips!
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If you’ve been a reader of The Busy Baker for any length of time you’ll already know how much I love a good muffin. Especially a homemade muffin – like these Best Ever Chocolate Chip Muffins! They’re soft and moist on the inside, just a little bit crispy on the outside, and packed with delicious chocolate chips – trust me, you’re going to LOVE them!
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These Best Ever Chocolate Chip Muffins are truly the perfect classic muffin. They’re simple to make in only one bowl and they’re the perfect muffin for snacks or lunches!
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How to make the perfect chocolate chip muffins
- Don’t over-mix the batter! This is my BEST TIP for the perfect fluffy muffins every single time! If you’re left with muffins that are closer in texture to hockey pucks, it’s almost certainly because you mixed the batter too vigorously and for too long. Be gentle with the batter once you add the dry ingredients and stir only until the flour just barely disappears. Use a wooden spoon or silicone spatula and mix by hand to avoid over-mixing. Making muffins with a stand mixer or a hand mixer almost ALWAYS ensures you’ll over-mix, so making them by hand is the way to go!!
- Bake quickly! The leavening agent in muffins is usually baking powder (sometimes with baking soda), which acts quickly as soon as the liquid and dry ingredients come together. To get fluffy muffins with the nice dome shape on top, get them in the oven as fast as you can after mixing.
- Let them cool! No one likes a gummy muffin that’s underdone on the inside. Let the muffins cool until they’re almost room temperature before digging in, since they continue baking on the inside even after they’ve been removed from the oven.
- Use high quality chocolate chips! Semi-sweet, milk, dark, or even white – any chocolate chips will work in this recipe, but be sure to use good quality chocolate chips…they’ll make or break these muffins!
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Best Ever Chocolate Chip Muffins
Recipe: Equipment
Recipe: Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup chocolate chips plus more for topping (optional)
- 1 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
Recipe: Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit (190 degrees Celsius) and prepare a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.
- Add the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder to a bowl and whisk together to combine.
- Add the chocolate chips to the flour mixture and stir to combine.
- Measure the milk into a 2-cup size liquid measuring cup.
- Add the egg, vanilla and vegetable oil and whisk them together with a fork.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir everything together gently just until combined with a wooden spoon or a silicone spatula - just until no streaks of flour remain.
- Portion the batter into the 12 muffin cups, filling them about 2/3 to 3/4 full. This recipe makes between 12 and 16 muffins, depending on the size of your pan.
- Top each muffin with a couple extra chocolate chips, if desired (this step is optional, but it makes for a beautiful presentation).
- Bake the muffins at 375 degrees Fahrenheit (190 degrees Celsius) for about 20 minutes or until the tops of the muffins are a light golden brown and a toothpick inserted into one of the muffins comes out clean.
Recipe: Notes
Storage Instructions
These muffins keep well in an airtight container for up to 3 daysFreezer Instructions
Freeze these muffins in an airtight container or freezer bag for up to 3 months.Recipe: Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
These muffins were quick and easy to make. I read over the directions a couple times to make sure I didn’t miss anything. I thought the oven temperature of 375 was high but followed the recipe as stated. My muffins stayed pale on the top so I ended up overbaking them. If I try this recipe again I will bake at a lower temperature
Thanks for your comment! These muffins do stay pale on top…just be sure to bake them for the directed time and test with a toothpick!
I usually buy pre-made muffins for quick school morning breakfasts but this recipe has changed that habit! These are amazing and so easy to make! And I feel like the base recipe would be perfect for many other types of muffins (fruit, other types of chips such as peanut butter, etc). Thank you for putting this recipe out there as a preservative free, homemade option!
I’m so happy you enjoyed them! Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback!
I love this recipe, my muffins still seem to be a little dense, I don’t know what I am doing wrong. But overall my family and friends say they taste great!
I’m so happy you enjoyed them! Dense muffins usually happen because of over mixing. Hope this helps! Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback.
Hi, can i substitute all purpose flour and baking powder with self-raising flour? If can, would I still need 2 cups of self-raising flour in this recipe?
Thanks in advance!
We’ve never tried that substitution so we couldn’t recommend it but if you try, please let us know!
Hi! I just mixed my muffins and the mix is a little thick, slightly like a dough just a little lighter. Shoudl I add more milk or leave it like this? It doesnt say anything about the thickness of the mix! Thank you!
This batter is a little bit on the thicker side, but definitely not dough-like. Make sure you measure your ingredients out correctly (scoop and level the flour) as adding more milk or flour after the batter is formed leads to over-mixing which causes dry and dense muffins.