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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Muffins

Fluffy, tender muffins chock full of dark chocolate chips. These muffins have perfectly round and crunchy muffin tops and taste amazing!

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 17 minutes
Total Time 27 minutes
YIELD 4 jumbo size muffins or 10 standard size muffins

Ingredients

  • 1 ¾ cups (250g) all-purpose flour
  • ¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
  • 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 cup buttermilk or milk (see notes)
  • ⅓ cup canola oil (or vegetable, safflower)
  • 1 ½ teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup chocolate chips or chunks (see notes)
  • Sugar sprinkles (optional garnish)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 425°F/220°C. Grease 12 muffin cups or line them with liner papers.

  2. In a large bowl whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.

  3. In a medium bowl whisk the egg, buttermilk/milk, oil and vanilla extract, and whisk until combined. Pour the egg mixture into the flour mixture and fold with a wooden spoon or a rubber spatula just until combined. Do not overmix. The batter should be thick and lumpy. Fold in chocolate chips.

  4. Divide the mixture between the muffin cups almost all the way to the top. Bake for 3 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 375°F/190°C. Add sugar sprinkles to the muffin tops and continue to bake for an additional 12-17 minutes (for standard size muffins; see the above post notes for jumbo and mini muffin baking times) until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean. If the muffin tops start to brown too fast on the outside but are not fully baked yet, cover the pan loosely with aluminum foil. Overbaking will make the muffins dry so keep an eye on them. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes in pan, then transfer muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.

Recipe Notes

-Both milk and buttermilk taste great but buttermilk makes the muffins much more moist. 
- Using chocolate chips or chunks (cut from a chocolate bar) yield a slightly different muffin. Chocolate chips hold their shape well during baking while chocolate chunks (which I cut to different size pieces for varying chocolate texture) are melty and soft. I highly recommend trying both options! 
- Muffins are best the same day they are made. 
- Muffins can be frozen for up to 2 months, then thawed overnight in the fridge or a couple of hours at room temperature.