How good is chocolate for breakfast? I think it’s the bomb but I’m rather alone in that opinion. Doesn’t matter – all the more for me.
I was going through the pantry and realized that I had bought way more chocolate chips than I remembered. Then I found a bag of wonderful cocoa from King Arthur Flour that had been sent to me as a gift and my taste buds began to crank.
Muffins are so easy to make and they’re really good if you remember not to overmix the batter. A chef friend of mine once said, “Maureen, when mixing muffins and you think, ‘one more stir’ – stop there and don’t stir that last time – you’ll thank me.” She was right.
My muffins are always light and soft and they rarely last the day if someone stops by for coffee.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins
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Chocolate chocolate chip muffins are a hit with the whole family, especially for weekend brunch.
Author: Maureen Shaw
Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- ½ cup cocoa, sifted
- 2¼ cups self-raising flour, sifted
- 1 cup caster (superfine) sugar
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ¾ cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- ¾ cup dark chocolate chips (add more if you're a chocoholic)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F
- Put liners in a 12 hole cupcake tin or grease a non-stick pan
- In a large bowl, add the sifted flour, sifted cocoa, and sugar and whisk together.
- Whisk the oil, milk, vanilla and eggs in a large measuring cup.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and add the oil mixture
- Using a wooden spoon, stir until just combined (don't over-mix).
- Spoon mixture evenly into muffin tin and place in preheated oven.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until firm to touch and a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
They look amazing, Maureen! Great tip about mixing the batter! Do you find that the castor sugar makes a difference? I guess in the US we’d have to spin it through the blender?
Marie, you can find castor sugar in the grocery stores here in the US, it will say superfine sugar or bakers sugar on it. However it does work to give regular sugar a spin in the blender 🙂
That “one more stir” rule should be learned by all of us! Works with pancake batter, too (and loads of other things). Who can resist chocolate? And muffins? I’ll bet Rob had several.
Oh yes yes yes yes to these chocolate muffins! I love the small amount of ingredients happening here too.
I’d drive a couple hundred miles to stop for coffee at your place….
can I have a muffin?
Can you drive over water? About 5,000 miles? 🙂
I wish! 😉 😉 😉
I love Chocolate Muffins!
Pinned to save!
I am stopping by for coffee at your place Maureen! Yes – yes yes to chocolate for breakfast (and dinner and lunch and snack) I put a few chocolate chips in my breakfast oatmeal 99.9 percent of the time! These muffins sound heavenly – thanks for the tip about overbeating, I am always tempted to beat it one more time!
Hear your doorbell – thats me! 🙂
The muffins look very rich and delicious.
Well now I want chocolate muffins for breakfast Maureen and it’s only 5am. To sacrifice one extra hour of sleep and make muffins or not?
I am 110% for chocolate for breakfast!! These look phenomenal!
I love that rule about muffins… it’s so true… much the same for scones… if you over mix a scone batter, you’ll have rock cakes! Maureen your chocolate muffins look sooooooooo delicious. Such a great recipe, I’m pinning and bookmarking right now. And who said you can’t have cake for breakfast. Don’t you know, that’s been my rule for years xoxo
I LIKE your rule.
Who said chocolatey muffins were not made for breakfast, so worth not sleeping 😛
I am dying to eat your photos 😉
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Chocolate – the REAL breakfast of champions!!!
Don’t know why the word ‘real’ was deleted from first comment. Computer Gremlins?????
I didn’t touch it! I deleted the previous one. 🙂 and thank you, I like being a champion.
What a yummy looking muffin!
Your muffins are truly beautiful Maureen, and chocolate for breakfast is fantastic! It makes the world a happier place.
Saw the title of this post in triberr and clicked so fast to get here and I’m so glad I did! Pinned and shared these lovely muffins.
Yum! I love that your recipe has such a short, simple list of ingredients!
I’d eat these for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Chocolate should have been my middle name. Yummy recipe!
Thank you for the “one more stir” rule Maureen! We both could eat these chocolate muffins for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner!!! Gorgeous photos 🙂
Cheers,
J+C
Thanks so much!
If I showed this to Rich he’d want to know why he doesn’t get chocolate muffins for breakfast. And he wouldn’t share the batch with anyone. Which probably explains why he doesn’t get any!
LOL I like your style
G’day! Two to go please Maureen; no better make it three!
I could enjoy these for brekkie, lunch and tea! YUM!
Cheers! Joanne
I’ll join you in chocolate for breakfast Maureen – it sounds just right to me 😉
So true about how much to stir muffin batter- it was a lesson drummed into me in 7th grade Home Ec. And I would not be sorry if the person I lived with doesn’t like chocolate for breakfast – all the more for me! yum!
Hello Maureen, Many many best wishes and blessings to you on your Anniversary, I hope I am correct ! Congratulations to you and the muffins are looking best and perfect for the occasion. Have a wonderful day and enjoy ! Love, Sonia
You know I’m totally agreeing to chocolate for breakfast! And double chocolate anything is always a good thing.
these muffins look really good, like the stirring tip.
Dear Maureen, I think everything you make looks insanely good!!!
I love chocolate and I do think chocolate is perfection at breakfast or any time of day.
Blessings dear. Catherine xo
I am not really a breakfast eater but it these were served hot out of the oven with my coffee I would love you forever… I am sure your hubby agrees! The chocolate is so dark too! Full of lovely antioxidants I am sure 😉 …almost healthy 😉
YUM!
I have been craving chocolatey bites like this all week, Maureen. 🙂 I’ve been too ill to cook – bugger – but it does my heart good to even look at your little beauties. 🙂 Hopefully this week will be a better week and my kitchen will be full of chocolate goodness. 🙂
this sounds like my kind of breakfast 🙂
I normally don’t eat chocolate for breakfast, but these yummy muffins could be an exception. They look so chocolatey and moist! I don’t think I’d need the butter. 🙂
I’m on my way for breakfast, I hope you have a fresh batch of muffins ready ;).
Thanks for the tip about “one more stir” . I will make note of it. It will especially be useful at high Altitude. Delicious looking muffins, even airy and Chocolate * is* calling* me* 🙂
Oww, finger licking good choco muffin…
i’m a dark choco freak, lovin to made it with 70% cocoa chocolate!
I wouldn’t mind having a couple of these luscious and rich chocolate muffins for my 2nd breakfast. They look divine, Maureen.
Chocolate for breakfast? YES YES YES! These are simply beautiful!!
Hehe I’ll be on the next plane to stop by for coffee if these are involved! They really do look fabulous Maureen! 😀
This is one muffin the hubby would love. I’ll just call it a “cupcake.” 😉
Pooh to all those people who try to put FRUIT in a breakfast muffin, THIS is how they should be made! 😀
I love indulging in chocolate over breakfast during the weekend. On milk, crepes or cupcakes. These muffins are amazing – and loved the butter on the side!
You do realize that muffins can be shipped easily, Maureen! Do you need my address? 🙂
I would so get my chocolate fix with these chocolatey muffins! Perfect with a tall glass of cold milk on a February afternoon!
xo
Roz
Oh my, but the muffins look beautiful! I want to stop by your house at breakfast!
These are what chocolate muffins should look like, so very rich and they just scream “chocolate overload”. I’m terrible at over mixing, so paranoid about having lumps of flour in the final product. Unfortunately, that means I sometimes end up with terribly dense baked goods. I will have to heed your friends advice!
Those look magnificent! Perfect with a cup of coffee. I’m not a breakfast person but definitely an elevenses person with some coffee and these would be perfect! The “one more stir” is so true! Pancakes, muffins and scones….need love, not stirring!
I am still getting my feet wet in the baking department… but stirring is a lesson I have learned well. I try not to beat the heck out of my batters. Love these muffins. 🙂
Looks like I need to buy some cocoa!
Eating these muffins right in the morning is to start the day with a large smile on the face!!! They look decadent and very yum!
These look lovely and rich and dark and moist. I wish I could pop in for morning tea! xx
Oh I didn’t know that with the over mixing. I have a bad habit of over mixing everything (except whipping cream!) Maureen your choco muffins look perfect and light!
I think chocolate is the bomb for breakfast or any time personally.. I love how the light is just coming over your muffins, perfectly delicious. Happy Baking!
im all for chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
My daughter used to love the chocolate muffins from Costco. We used to buy them whenever she had friends sleep over. Of course, that was many, many moons ago, but she hasn’t forgotten those muffins. I think these may work.
Oooo I love chocolate muffins with chocolate chips, and I do like them better with oil than with butter. My son was asking to make cookies, so I think I’ll have him make your muffins instead.
So excited for another of your muffin recipes. I forgot to tell you that I made your blueberry muffins a couple weeks ago because I got a craving and my husband wouldn’t stop raving about them! He told me to make them again soon. I think I might have to try making these first though 😉
I could never refuse this muffins. I adore chocolate and these are looking great.
I would love to have this right now with my coffee! I was looking for something to eat accompanying with my 2nd cup of coffee but I have nothing in the kitchen (that often happens to non-baker’s home). Looks so moist and delicious. Chocolate muffins are my kids’ #1 pick. One time I ate so frequently that I couldn’t take it, but now I’m craving again!
Oh wow these look to die for, yes I could quite happily have a few of these for breakfast anytime. I can understand why they don’t last the day when made.
I always seem to end up with too many chocolate chips. I think I hoard them when they are on special at the supermarket. These muffins sound totally delish.
Chocolate muffins are the best. I really love muffins. I will definitely try this.