These Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins are the perfect two-bite sweet treat – soft and tender on the inside, perfectly caramelized on the outside and packed with melty chocolate chips.
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Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins
If you’ve been a reader of The Busy Baker for ANY length of time you’ll already know very well that muffins are our jam. We love muffins so much that we’ve shared almost 50 muffin recipes with you over the years, and there’s more where that came from!
These Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins are the mini version of our favourite Best Ever Chocolate Chip Muffins. They’re under 70 calories each, and they’re the perfect little sweet treat!
How to Make Muffins
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The BEST Muffin Recipes
We don’t like to brag, but here at The Busy Baker muffins are the name of our game. We have shared countless recipes for muffins of all kinds here on the blog and these are our favourites:
- Peanut Butter Banana Oat Muffins
- Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
- Best Ever Double Chocolate Muffins
- Pumpkin Spice Streusel Muffins
- Apple Oat Muffins
- Best Ever Banana Nut Muffins
- Cheddar Cheese and Bacon Cornbread Muffins
- Zucchini Blueberry Muffins
Kitchen items for making muffins
Muffins are one of the easiest things to bake, which makes them excellent for beginners in the kitchen. Most muffin recipes can be made by hand with a few basic kitchen ingredients:
- a good mixing bowl
- a wooden spoon
- a silicone spatula
- measuring cups for dry ingredients
- measuring spoons
- measuring cups for liquid ingredients
If you’re a more seasoned baker and you want to up your muffin game, we’d suggest picking up an ice cream scoop like this one for portioning out the batter evenly between the muffin cups. Good quality paper muffin liners are also nice to have for easy removal.
A cooling rack is also helpful for cooling the muffins, especially if you’re making multiple batches at once and need to re-use your pans. And although we recommend making muffins by hand, an electric hand mixer or stand mixer can also be helpful for big batches of muffins – but only if you’re a seasoned baker and know how to use an electric mixer without over-mixing (over-mixing is the cardinal sin of muffin baking!).
Ingredients for Mini Chocolate Chip Muffins
To make these mini muffins, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- all purpose flour
- granulated sugar
- salt
- baking powder
- mini chocolate chips
- milk
- egg
- vanilla extract
- vegetable oil
How to Make Mini Muffins
Time needed: 27 minutes
Follow these tips for the perfect mini muffins every time!
- Preheat your oven.
Most muffins bake at 350, but these Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins bake at 375 to a beautiful golden brown.
- Grease your pan, or use paper liners.
Nobody likes a muffin that’s stuck in the pan, so grease the muffin pan(s) well or use paper liners for easy removal.
- Add the chocolate chips in with the flour mixture.
Coating any add-ins like chocolate chips or berries in flour before combining them with the rest of the batter helps prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the muffins and keeps them distributed throughout the batter when baking.
- Mix the wet and dry ingredients separately, then combine.
Combine the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder together with the chocolate chips first in the mixing bowl, then mix the wet ingredients together in a large liquid measuring cup. Add the wet to the dry and mix just until combined.
- Don’t over-mix!
Over-mixing leads to tough, dry muffins. For light, fluffy, tender muffins, mix only until the flour disappears.
How long to bake mini muffins
Mini muffins bake from about 10-13 minutes. To see whether or not they’re baked through, test them with a toothpick. If the toothpick comes out clean, they’re done!
Can I make mini muffins from a regular muffin recipe?
Yes! Be sure to reduce the baking time to between 10 and 13 minutes from what the original recipe states.
Can I add berries or nuts to this recipe instead of chocolate chips?
Yes! Keep the measurement to 1 cup, and be sure the add-ins are mini. If you’re adding nuts chop them into small pieces and choose small wild blueberries instead of raspberries or blackberries which are larger.
We hope you love this mini muffins recipe as much as we do! Let us know in the comments below, what’s your favourite muffin? We’d LOVE to know!
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Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins
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 and prepare a 24-cup mini muffin tin by greasing it well or lining it with mini paper muffin 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 for about 10-13 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
Recipe: Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
The ingredients and the amount being used is really good and healthy for you and that’s what I like. Something you can enjoy but is not over due the ingredients like salt, sugar things like that.
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