If you love easy breakfast recipes like this, then you need to try my Sour Cream Coffee Cake Streusel Muffins and my Buttermilk Pancakes!
Easy Homemade Chocolate Chip Muffins
There is nothing better than a breakfast that tastes like dessert! These Easy Chocolate Chip Muffins are fluffy, moist, and loaded with chocolate chips. They remind me of bakery-style muffins because of their domed top, crispy edges, and tender center. But you won’t have to leave the comfort of home to get that bakery-style breakfast!
Key Ingredients
You need some familiar baking ingredients to make these delicious and easy Chocolate Chip Muffins at home, including: unsalted butter (softened to room temperature), light brown sugar, granulated white sugar, eggs (at room temperature), buttermilk (also at room temperature … are you sensing a pattern here?), vanilla extract, all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and — of course — semisweet chocolate chips. The trick with this Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe is to ensure that the eggs, butter, and buttermilk are all at room temperature. This ensures a smooth batter and tight crumb.
How To Make Chocolate Chip Muffins
Why You Should Use Browned Butter with These Muffins
The melted butter adds extra chewiness and the extra step of browning adds a nice toffee flavor. Simply heat the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook for about 5-7 minutes swirling the pan occasionally. I recommend using a lighter colored saucepan when browning butter. It makes it easier to tell when the butter has browned.
Tips
Start with room temperature ingredients. I always bring my buttermilk and eggs to room temperature this creates a smoother batter resulting in a lighter tender muffin. Do not over mix the batter! The more you mix the chewier the muffin with become. Garnish the tops of the muffin batter in the tins with chocolate chips. Ever wondered how to get tall muffin tops? I start by baking the muffins first at a higher temperature (425°F) for only 5 minutes then reduce the oven temperature to (375°F) and continue to bake for another 12-15 minutes. This helps the muffins bake higher and gives them a domed top just like from the bakery!
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