These Chocolate Chip Muffins are moist, loaded with yummy chocolate chips. They are easy to make yet so very sinful.
Hola People so there’s a lot going on with the blog lately. I didn’t post last week because I was preparing for my September Baking Challenge. Didn’t I tell you already? Okay I am taking part in a month long blogging challenge – The #MyFriendAlexa activity in association with BlogChatter. To keep things short – I’ll be posting 8 recipes this month and my challenge hashtag is #BakingWithTina. You can search with this hashtag on Twitter and Instagram for all the posts this month – if you have not followed me already, do that now!
To give you a short background on this – when I moved over from Blogger to WordPress self-hosted site, I lost all my blog followers. So I am left with some 4 followers now. This is the current report card of my blog and you can see my reactions against each metric. 🙁
I am joining this activity with some clear objectives. At the end of the activity I am hoping to
- Grow some traffic – can’t quantify this.
- Get at, least 20 more followers through blog subscription / email subscription
- Grow my Alexa rank by few – hundreds maybe?
- Have 30 more Followers in each of my Twitter and Instagram accounts
- 30 more Likes on the blog Facebook Page
So people you know I need a lot of love in there.
I am hoping to clear all the above listed points at the end of the month. I’ll post a report card against the current one on October 1, 2016 to see where I stand and how worthwhile it was to be in the activity.
So where were we, chocolate chips eh?
My son has really taken to cakes and cookies – he is 1 yr and 1 month old as of now, has 4 and half teeth (he teethed quite late) but enjoys chewing on cookies. The first baked cake with egg he had was his 1 year birthday cake that I had baked for him ( I will put up a post on that this month). But now he’s quite a pro at munching on cakes, cookies or even baked casseroles. So I need to bake some muffins or cupcakes every now and then.
I had made these chocolate chips muffins for his 13th month birthday (we celebrate his birthdays on all months! And yeah, you can call us crazy). I had originally started out to make chocolate chip cupcakes, but this tiny man was making himself so busy in the kitchen that I never got any time to make the frosting – so I am calling it a muffin.
This is a step by step photo post. This is my go to recipe for muffins, had read it in some magazine long time back. I simple add or subtract ingredients or flavoring to make different versions. But the basic muffin recipe is same.
Getting Started
Prepping the flour is very important for any cake / bread baking. Without a little baking powder and baking soda your cakes won’t rise properly. So mix 1 tablespoon baking powder and 1 teaspoon baking soda to 2 and ½ cups of regular flour, which has been sifted.
Prepping Chocolate Chips
Most important thing to keep in mind while adding any small bits in a cake batter, is to mix it with some flour. Else it will sink in the batter and you will have a barren top and all chocolate chips will flock together at the bottom. Take 1 tablespoon of flour from your measured flour mix (no extra flour, plz) and add it to the chocolate chips to coat them well. This way they’ll not sink to the bottom.
I am using L’exclusif Baking Chips by Godrej Natures Basket for this recipe. I found them pretty nice.
Prepping Liquid
We’ll be using milk in the batter. So keep it ready alongside the flour, because they go in simultaneously. I am also using fresh vanilla scraped from the pod. You can alternatively use vanilla extract if you don’t have fresh vanilla pods.
Pro tip – Don’t throw the vanilla pods after scraping. Keep it in your sugar jar. You’ll have extremely aromatic sugar. Thank me later!
Preparing the Batter
Cream together butter and sugar with a whisk or hand mixer / stand mixer. Break and add 2 whole eggs – one at a time and mix till it’s all creamy.
Pro Tip: Keep the eggs broken in a separate bowl. You don’t want to ruin your batter with a piece of egg shell. I have learnt it the hard way.
Add vanilla extract and beat for few seconds.
Now ditch the mixer and get a silicon spatula, or anything like that. We have to fold now, not mix.
Add in milk and flour alternatively. I’ll do it in 5 parts – flour, milk, flour, milk, flour. With this you will never have lumps, nor will your batter get runny or dry. You have better control this way.
Add chocolate chips and mix. Let the batter rest for 10 mins.
Arranging the Muffins
Line a muffin tray with paper liners – this way you don’t have to grease pan, or worry about batter sticking here and there.
Pour batter in the liners using an ice cream scoop or ladle. I think it gives better control on the measurement and I know it’s getting divided equally.
Baking
Bake them in a pre –heated oven in two parts – first at 200C/392F for 5 mins and then at 180C/356F for 13-15 minutes or till a tooth pick inserted at the center comes out clean. The browning of muffins differs from oven to oven, I have noticed. I use my microwave with convection setting for all my baking stuffs. I generally use the shorter wire stand while baking so that I get some color on my stuffs. So even if it it’s not browning it’s okay.
Rest the muffins on a wire rack to cool down for 15 minutes at least.
Notes
I have noticed when you have rested your cake batter well, they rise well. I baked my muffins in two batches because I have a 6 cup muffin tray and this recipe makes 10-12 muffins. The ones in the second batch rose much better than the first one. I don’t know the science behind it, but that’s how it works for me.
So guys hope you will enjoy this September Baking Challenge with #BakingWithTina.
Let me know your thoughts, or the kind of posts you want me to share.
- Dry Ingredieents
- Flour -2 1/2 cup
- Baking Powder – 1 tablespoon
- Baking Soda – 1 teaspoon
- Chocolate Chips – 1 cup
- Liquids
- Butter – 1 cup, melted and cooled
- Sugar – 1 cup (though not a liquid)
- Egg – 2, whole eggs
- Vanilla – extract of 2 pods, or liquid extract 2 teaspoon
- Milk – 1 cup, whole milk or butter milk
- Pre-heat oven at 200C/392F
- Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda well in a bowl.
- Take a tablespoonn of flour from this mix and add to the cup of chocolate chips and coat them well with the flour
- Cream butter and sugar with a whisk/ mixer
- Add eggs one at a time and beat well
- Add vanilla extract and beat well
- With a spatula fold in flour and milk in parts to get a smooth batter
- Mix in chocolate chips
- Let it rest for 10 – 15 minutes
- Line muffin tray with paper liners
- Divide batter equally
- Bake at 200C/392F for 5 minutes
- Lower heat at 180C/356F for 13-15 minutes or till a tooth pick inserted at the center comes out clean
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Wow! Wonderfully presented post. I luv desserts nd this is looking so vry yummy 😊 will share the recipe with my mom. And must say you clicked some amazing pictures here. Kudos! 😊😊
Thank you Saumy. I am sure your mom wil make even a batter batch because it will be filled with love! Yes I am still learning food photography.
I love how you give pro tips as well. Pretty sure soon u willhave your own bakery or catering business… If not already. Gorgeous presentation too. I can only imagine how much work you put in every pose 🙂
My own bakery, how I would love to have that! Thank you so much for the lovely words Raj. Yeah doing a step by step photo post is lot of work, I do these rarely. But I like to click photos now!
Hi Tina,
Lovely blog. I love the feel of it. I love choco chip muffin. Time to try it out at home. I love the way you structure out the recipie. The photo is so sinful.
Thank you so much Ramya. I am still in the learning phase of food photography. Thanks for dropping by.
❤❤❤❤❤ I give your post five hearts! Thank you so much, Tina! Am going to bake these beauties soon! And will let you know how they turn out!
You are such a sweetheart Shilpa. Please let me know how you enjoyed them. 🙂
This must be how heaven looks like 😍Looks so enticing. If I had an oven I’d have tried it rightaway.
Thank you so much Ranjini. Yeah without an oven I don’t know how this can be done.
My girls love chocolate chip muffins..I am surely gonna make these..nicely described 🙂
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Thank you Deepa. I am sure your girls will like them.
OMG! This is heavenly! I so wish I could have just one from these super looking treats!
Awesome, Tina. Loved the way you explained the instructions.
Thank you Shalini, I just try to make things clear for readers. Hopefully it’ll help them while they follow the recipe.
Drool, drool, drool!! Tina this looks amazing! I love how beautifully you have done, step by step instructions with captivating images! Your logo is too cute. Love everything about this post Tina. I am going to be saving all your bake posts through this month. And I am pretty sure your Alexa stats are going to take a steep plunge by the end of the month!
Thank you so much Kala, you are such a sweetheart. I hope you will make some and enjoy with family
Nice, rich recipe. Love to make muffins! I’ve never rested muffin batter and will be interested in if that works for me.
I am drooling all over the pictures of the muffins. So going to try this.
Thank you Jai. I would love to know how you enjoyed them.
This is such a sweet treat post. Delicious 🙂
Thanks Anil
OOH! I am a baker by hobby too and simply love this recipe – I think I am going to be one of your most ardent followers as I simply love the little “tips” on the side that you have added on here.
I also bake in the convection mode of the microwave and use the shorter stand for all the baking as it makes for an even baking.
Shall try these out soonest – I know one blogger pal will be joyous to hear this;-)
PS.:
My thoughts on the second batch – batter is more rested & secondly oven is much more warmer! Give it some thought for next time and let me know too pls.
Thank you so much Shalz. So happy to connect with another hobby baker. Yeah next time I’ll try pre heating for some more time may be. Thanks for that tip.
Very well explained I must say! Makes a serial cake burner like me also think that I just might be able to pull this off!
All the best with your September blogging goals! 🙂
O Tina! The recipe sounds mouth-watering! And blog looks fabulous! Congratulations to you!
SO many recipes are going to come up this month, can you bake something eggless please?! I’m allergic to eggs! And I hate that!
I’m not very good at baking but I sure relish the idea of trying simple recipes!
Cheers
Geets
Very nice, I just had vanilla muffins made by a bakery in New York.
Nice presentation you have.
I simply love the way you write! The pictures, the description everything is so detailed. I am your subscriber for life. Thank you for making us privy to your cherished recipes.
OMG Mayura, you made my day.. err.. night currently. Would love to keep delighting you.
yummiesttttt!!!
that’s a superb recipe, well as for the second batch, it is all the aeration. the soda makes more air bubbles when kept for long within the flour. loved the pictures. will surely try this!
I’m definitely a muffin gal. It goes without saying that I love, love, love anything and everything that includes chocolate chips. From my favorite cookies to scones and biscotti, I generally can’t resist chocolate chip-anything. Add muffins to that ever-growing list! These muffins are incredibly quick and easy to make, taking only 10 minutes from the time you start until they’re in the oven baking away. They bake up soft and tender, not too crumbly, and with a bit of a crunch from the sugar topping. If you love a sweet start to your mornings, these muffins will absolutely fit the bill.
Very well described.
I am sharing this with my sisters, they will love it 🙂
Happy to connect #zarahatkeblogreads via #MyFriendAlexa
This recepie as well as entering to your blog lookibg at those yummy clicks wowwwww…
Yoh have got a beautiful blog 😍
Good going .
This looks so tempting!!
BTW having a 1 year old and you manage to do this?! A time management post is well due, what’s say?
Oh I am such a big fan of muffins and these pics look really lovely. Must say you have awesome food photography skills :D.
Love the recipe… Will let you know how the trials work out 🙂