Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Muffins

These chocolate chip muffins are tender and moist, and come equipped with TALL bakery style tops! They come together in a flash and are super easy to make!

* This post was updated with new photos 🙂

I had a potluck at work a few weeks ago and I decided to bring these muffins as my dish since they're such an easy potluck food. They were a huge hit and a SUPER crowd pleasing dessert!

I ended up getting a lot of questions about how I made them and they couldn't be any easier to make!

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• Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe

Chocolate chip muffins ingredients:

Chocolate chip muffins only need a handful of household staples! To make these muffins, you will need:

• flour
• baking powder and baking soda: a combination yields an extra tall, tender, and airy muffin!
• salt
• eggs
• granulated sugar and brown sugar: I like to use both sugars in my muffins. The granulated sugar will help give the muffins a crispy exterior, while the brown sugar creates an extra moist and flavorful muffin! You can use 100% granulated sugar or 100% brown sugar if you'd prefer
• butter
• buttermilk: the acidity in buttermilk helps the muffin rise higher and will give you a more tender muffin. If you don't have any, you can either substitute it for an equal amount of regular milk, or make your own buttermilk at home!
• vanilla extract
• semi-sweet chocolate chips or chocolate chunks: either one is fine!

How to get a bakery style muffin top:

When I was younger, I don't think I ever had a full muffin. I used to always split them with my brother. He took the muffin bottom, and I took the top. I always remember wishing I had more muffin top, and I finally know how to get it!

If you're on team muffin top, this'll be especially great for you. The secret to a larger muffin top involves 3 steps.
(1) Put a healthy amount of baking powder and baking soda. Baking soda and powder help your muffins rise, and when combined with the acidity found in buttermilk, the muffins get extra fluffy and tender on the inside. You don't want to add too much or your muffins may taste metallic. But you do need a good amount of each!
(2) Forget ¾ of the way full! If you want more muffin top, fill your muffin cups to the very top with batter. Muffins are supposed to have a tall, domed top, so it's fine (encouraged!) if they expand and overflow a bit.
(3) Start with a higher temperature oven. This helps your muffins expand more quickly when you first put them in to bake (thanks to the shock of the high heat). Lowering the heat later on is important to ensure the muffins bake on the inside without burning on the outside.

Muffin Add-Ins:

Want something other than chocolate chips? This muffin batter recipe can be customized for whatever addition you want!

For my muffins, I decided to add some semisweet, mini chocolate chips, but the base batter for this recipe is actually really good to keep on hand for all kinds of muffin making. You can also use this batter to make blueberry muffins, raisin muffins, plain muffins, you name it!

How to store muffins:

Muffins are best served fresh. These muffins do keep at room temperature for up to 3 days when kept in an airtight container. If you don't plan on having your muffins within 3 days, I recommend freezing them for maximum freshness!

To freeze chocolate chip muffins, place baked and cooled muffins in a freezer bag. Push as much air out of the bag as possible and seal. Keep muffins frozen for up to 2 months.

To defrost the frozen muffins, leave out at room temperature for a few hours, or heat in a preheated 350°F oven for 5 to 10 minutes, until fully thawed. Whichever option you choose, I'd also warm the muffins a bit in the oven either way just to make them taste even fresher!

More muffin recipes for you!

• blueberry muffins
• carrot muffins
• banana muffins
• whole wheat blueberry muffins
• Bonus: what's the difference between muffins and cupcakes?

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Enjoy!

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