Triple chocolate muffins
Our favourite triple chocolate muffins – deliciously light and chocolatey. A chocolate lovers delight and easy enough for kids to make.
Muffins are a great thing to bake with children but this triple chocolate muffin recipe is an extra bit special. They’re a delicious bakery style chocolate muffin with the bonus of extra chocolate chunks.
My kids loved how much these rose in the oven, and we all enjoyed eating the chocolatey goodness of course! If you’ve got any chocolate lovers in your house, they’re bound to love these muffins.
What makes these chocolate muffins so good? Theye’re light and fluffy, they way good bakery style muffins should be. You get that by not over mixing the ingredients together. We stirred it all together in a bowl with spoons, rather than using a mixer, which means the muffins turn out light and fluffy rather than dry and tough.
How long do the muffins keep?
I like them when they’re still a little warm from the oven, but I do think most baking tastes best this way. If you don’t demolish them all in one go, they’ll keep for a few days in an air tight container.
You can also freeze the baked muffins. Before you put them in the freezer, wrap them tightly in cling film/glad wrap and then put them in freezer bags. They’ll keep in the freezer for a few months.
How can kids help make these triple chocolate muffins?
They are really easy and there are loads of fun steps can get involved with – from measuring and mixing, to spooning the mixture into the cases.
You don’t need any mixers for this recipe, so you can just give your kids some wooden spoons and let them mix everything together. As this turns out better slightly under mixed, than over mixed you don’t need to worry too much if there are a few bits of unmixed in flour.
What is the secret to making moist muffins?
The key to moist and fluffy muffins is to not over mix your batter or over cook the muffins. Muffins can become dry and crumbly if you over mix them, so make sure when you add the dry ingredients you stir it in gently with a spatula or wooden spoon until it has just come together. It doesn’t matter if there are still a few lumps of flour showing.
Muffins also dry out if you bake them for too long. You can tell they are ready if a skewer poked in the middle comes out clean. You can also try pressing down very gently on the top of the muffins. If they’re cooked they should bounce right back.
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Other delicious recipes full of chocolate chips
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Useful equipment
You might need the following baking tools/gadgets to make these chocolate chip cupcakes:
Muffin tin
Cupcake cases
Digital scales
Mixing bowl
Measuring cups
Measuring spoons
Spatula
Wire rack
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Difficulty: Easy
Time: 25 minutes + 20 minutes baking
Serves: 12
Ingredients
250g (2 cups) (250g) plain / all-pupose flour
200g (1 cup) (200g) caster sugar
100g (3/4 cups) milk chocolate chips
50g (1/4 cup) white chocolate chips
50g (½ cup) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
an egg (large)
245ml (1 cup) plain yoghurt
125ml (½ cup) milk
110ml (½ cup) vegetable oil
A few chocolate chips to sprinkle on top
how to make triple chocolate muffins
Preheat your oven to 200C / 180C Fan / 390F and prepare a muffin tin
Get your kids to line a muffin tin with cases or grease every corner of it with oil and butter if you have no cases to make sure the chocolate muffins don’t stick.
Mix the dry ingredients together
Get your child to measure each of the dry ingredients (the flour, sugar, chocolate chips, cocoa powder and baking powder) in turn and add them to a large mixing bowl.
When you measure the baking powder, make sure your kids use their finger to level the teaspoon so they add just the right amout.
Give your kids spoons and get them to mix everything together.
Whisk the wet ingredients together
In a separate bowl, get your kids to add the vanilla extract. If they are old enough they might manage to do that themselves, otherwise they might need help holding the spoon while they pour the vanilla in.
Crack an egg into a small bowl, just in case any egg shell goes in, then add that to the same bowl. If you do get a piece of rogue shell, simple fish it out with a larger piece of shell – it will stick to that better than it will your finger.
Next, get your kids to pour the natural yoghurt, milk and vegetable oil out and add them to your bowl. If you want to be more accurate, the easiest way of doing this using the ml setting of some measuring scales, otherwise just use measuring cups.
Whisk all the wet ingredients together until they are well combined.
Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients
Get your child to help you add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients bowl and mix it all together with a spatula or wooden spoon, just enough so you can’t see any more flour. It’ll still be a little lumpy but that’s fine. If you over mix it they might become dry and crumbly.
Bake the triple chocolate muffins
Spoon the muffin mixture into your muffin tin or cases. If you let your kids help with this step be prepared for a bit of mess! I tend to let the kids half fill up the cases then use the remaining mixture to fill the rest so that they are all filled evenly.
If you have an ice-cream scoop, they often measure out the perfect amount so can make this step a little easier, quicker and less messy.
If you have any chocolate chips left over you can sprinkle them on top so they look even more full of chocolate chips when they come out of the oven.
Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes. They’re ready when they have risen, and a toothpick or skewer poked into the centre comes out clean. You can also gently poke the top of the muffins, if they’re cooked they’ll bounce straight back.
Leave them to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before removing and leaving on a wire rack to cool completely.
Triple chocolate chip muffins
Ingredients
- 250 g (2 cups) plain flour
- 200 g (1 cup) caster sugar
- 80 g (¾ cup) chocolate chips
- 50 g (¼ cup) white chocolate chips
- 50 g (½ cup) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 245 ml (1 cup) plain yoghurt
- 125 ml (½ cup) milk
- 110 ml (½ cup) vegetable oil
- 25 g (¼ cup) chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
Preheat your oven to 200C and prepare a muffin tin
Mix the dry ingredients together
- Measure each of the dry ingredients in turn and add to a large mixing bowl. Give it a good mix.
Whisk the wet ingredients together
- Add the vanilla extract, egg, yoghurt, milk and vegetable oil to a separate mixing bowl.
- Whisk it all together.
Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients bowl and mix it together just enough so you can’t see any more flour. It’ll still be a little lumpy but that’s fine.
Bake the chocolate muffins
- Spoon your mixture into your muffin tin/cases.
- Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes. They’re ready when a toothpick or skewer poked into the centre comes out clean.
- Leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes before removing and leaving on a wire rack to cool completely.
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I gave these a go as I had zero baking experience and they seemed reasonably easy to make, and I was amazed at how well they came out! I think I could have baked them for a minute less but apart from that they were delicious and the whole family enjoyed them. I’m just glad I have enough ingredients left to make another batch 😂
Brilliant, i’m so glad you found them easy enough to make and enjoyed them!
Ooh yum! You can’t beat a good chocolate muffin – these look glorious Helen and your children look to have had a lot of fun making (& no doubt eating) them 🙂 Thankyou for sharing with #BakingCrumbs (ps, don’t forget to display the #BakingCrumbs badge so that it helps to spread to word of the linky),
Angela x