The Best Small Batch Chocolate Chip Muffins
When you need breakfast, but you're craving dessert, look no further than small batch chocolate chip muffins. Studded with mini chocolate chips and topped with raw sugar, they're soft, fluffy, and amazing with a cup of coffee. All you need is 30 minutes and you'll end up with 6 gorgeous, bakery-style muffins!
Equipment
- Standard cupcake pan
- Paper muffin or cupcake liners
Ingredients
- 60 grams unsalted butter, melted & cooled (¼ cup)
- 72 grams brown sugar, light or dark (⅓ cup, packed)
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 90 milliliters whole buttermilk (6 Tablespoons)
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 135 grams all-purpose flour (1 cup + 2 Tablespoons)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt
- 100 grams mini chocolate chips plus more for sprinkling (½ cup)
- Raw sugar, for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Line a 12-cup cupcake pan with 6 liners, spacing them out so there is an empty cup in-between each liner. The extra airflow will help the muffins rise even taller. (See the post for a visual example.)
- Add the cooled, melted butter and brown sugar to a medium mixing bowl. Whisk until smooth, about 2 minutes. Then, mix in the egg, buttermilk, and vanilla extract. Add the all-purpose flour, baking powder, and Kosher salt to the wet ingredients. Whisk until it's about 90% combined.
- Fold the mini chocolate chips into the batter just until there are no more streaks of flour. The batter will be a little lumpy, that's totally normal. Optional - cover the bowl and let the batter rest for 20-30 minutes. This will help make the muffins extra tall!
- Use a cupcake scoop to evenly divide the batter between the 6 muffin liners, filling them all the way to the top. Finish each muffin with a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips and a generous sprinkle of raw sugar.
- Bake the muffins at 400°F (204°C) for 5 minutes. Then, reduce the heat to 350°F (177°C) and bake the muffins for 13-14 more minutes, until an inserted toothpick has just a few moist crumbs. Let the muffins cool in the pan for about 5 minutes. Then, transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy!
Notes
With small batch baking, I always recommend weighing ingredients with a scale instead of measuring cups. Even just a little extra flour can completely derail the recipe. But, if you don't have a scale, here's how to measure the flour. First, fluff it with a whisk. Spoon the fluffed flour into a measuring cup and level it off without packing it in.
If you don't have buttermilk, combine 85 grams (5 ¾ Tablespoons) of whole milk with 5 grams (1 teaspoon) of white or apple cider vinegar. Let it sit for 5-10 minutes, until it's slightly curdled.
I use ¼ teaspoon of Morton's Kosher salt in this recipe. If you use Diamond, increase it to ⅓-1/2 teaspoon.
If you're using regular chocolate chips, toss them with 5 grams (½ Tablespoon) of flour to keep them from sinking.
You want to fill the muffins all the way to the top. Unlike cupcakes, the muffins won't over-flow! But, if you want to stretch this into 8 muffins, you can just fill them about ⅔-¾ of the way.
Nutrition
Serving: 1muffinCalories: 308kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 4gFat: 13gSaturated Fat: 8gCholesterol: 56mgSodium: 211mgPotassium: 76mgFiber: 1gSugar: 23gCalcium: 96mgIron: 1mg
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