Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe Challenge - Part 1

Brace yourself, I am about to embark on the very first ever Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe taste challenge. (Can you feel the excitement?)  What inspired this, you ask?  I have a decent chocolate chip muffin recipe but I always felt like there was room for improvement.  In my search for the next great chocolate chip muffin, I came across 2 different recipes and I couldn't seem to decide between them.  So there you have it, it was my indecisiveness that led to this muffin recipe challenge. 

I baked 2 different batches of chocolate chip muffins, hoping to find a new favorite muffin recipe.  Even though the recipes were quite similar, they produced very different results.   I'm going to keep my personal opinion about which muffin was my favorite a secret until tomorrow when I've had the chance to give you the second recipe.

Sit back and enjoy the first of two chocolate chip muffin recipes courtesy of bakerella.com.

Chocolate Chip Muffins
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 cup melted butter, cooled slightly
6 oz. semisweet chocolate chunks
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Line muffin tray with 12 regular size baking cups.

 

In a medium bowl, stir flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together with a wire whisk until combined.

In another bowl, stir sour cream, milk, eggs, vanilla and melted butter. Stir until combined.

Fold in dry ingredients.

 

Stir in chocolate chunks.

 









Divide batter into baking cups.

Bake for about 18-20 minutes or until done.

 

Makes 12 regular or 9 larger muffins. Bake a couple minutes longer for taller muffins.

 

So there you have it, the first part of the great chocolate chip muffin recipe.  The chocolate to muffin ratio of these muffins was extraordinary.  Some people might argue that there were too many chocolate chips and that they overwhelmed the muffin but in my opinion, the more chocolate the better.  (Keep in mind that this is a chocolate chip muffin challenge.) 


Be sure and check back on the blog tomorrow for part 2 of the recipe challenge.  You definitely don't want to miss out on recipe #2 or the results of the challenge.  (How's that for a cliff hanger?)

See you tomorrow on the blog.
Ciao!


Chocolate Chunk Muffins
1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1/4 cup melted butter, cooled slightly
6 oz. semisweet chocolate chunks

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.


• Line muffin tray with 12 regular size baking cups.


• In a medium bowl, stir flour, sugar, baking powder and salt together with a wire whisk until combined.


• In another bowl, stir sour cream, milk, eggs, vanilla and melted butter. Stir until combined.


• Stir in chocolate chunks and divide batter into baking cups.


• Bake for about 18-20 minutes or until done.


• Makes 12 regular or 9 larger muffins. Bake a couple minutes longer for taller muffins.