A buttery, moist muffin, studded with chocolate chips, these Sour Cream Muffins with Chocolate Chips are the perfect breakfast treat!
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If you are a regular around here, you know that muffins are a regular occurrence. from Brown Sugar Muffins to Oatmeal Raisin Muffins and beyond, you can expect a batch of muffins on the table multiple times a month.
When I’m craving something a little more indulgent, I like to make these Sour Cream Muffins with Chocolate Chips. I have a basil Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe, but these are a little more indulgent.
They are super moist, buttery, and filled with chocolate-y goodness. The sour cream gives these muffins an amazing texture. They are almost taste more like dessert than breakfast, but you’ll never hear me complain!
This is a recipe you’ll want to whip up for a special breakfast this weekend!
Ingredients
- Flour: I have only tested this recipe with all-purpose flour.
- Sugar: This is granulated sugar.
- Baking Powder & Baking Soda: This recipe uses both baking powder and baking soda for it’s life and structure.
- Salt: This will help to balance the flavors.
- Egg: The egg provides structure, fat, and flavor.
- Sour Cream: The sour cream gives these muffins the perfect, moist texture. I have only tested them using full fat sour cream, but I do think you could use low-fat.
- Butter: You want to melt the butter and let it cool slightly before adding it.
- Vanilla: This is for flavor.
- Chocolate Chips: I like to use seme-sweet chocolate chips.
How to Make Sour Cream Muffins with Chocolate Chips
STEP 1: Place all of the dry ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk them to combine.
STEP 2: In another bowl, mix together the wet ingredients. This doesn’t need to be perfectly smooth, but you do want it all mixed together.
STEP 3: Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. Start to mix, but just mix until moistened.
STEP 4: Add in the chocolate chips and continue to mix until you don’t have any dry patches left. The dough is pretty thick and sticky.
STEP 5: Divide the batter between 12 prepared muffin cups. If desired, you can add a few extra chocolate chips to the tops of the muffins.
STEP 6: Bake the muffins until a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Tips and Tricks
Make sure you don’t overmix the batter. That is why you don’t mix the batter completely before adding the chocolate chips – you want to try to mix as little as possible.
Switch things up and add white chocolate chips, or cinnamon chips instead of chocolate chips.
Store these muffins at room temperature in a container with a lid. They will last several days, but will start to get sticky on the tops.
More Muffin Recipes
Cinnamon Muffins
Blueberry Muffins
Banana Muffins
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Sour Cream Muffins with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2/3 cup sugar
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 cup sour cream
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400ºF. Line 12 muffin cups with liners or spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- In another bowl, whisk together the egg, sour cream, butter, and vanilla.
- Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix just until moistened. Fold in the chocolate chips
- Divide the mixture evenly between the prepared muffin tins.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a tester inserted in the middle comes out clean, 18-20 minutes.
Chris says
I am at the cabin and was looking for an easy muffin recipe! I found this one and thought, I gotta try this! Unfortunately I only had only 1/2 cup sour cream. So I used a mixture of sour cream and vanilla yogurt. So omitted the vanilla. I also didn’t have chocolate chips, so I chopped up a dark chocolate bar. The result was fantabulous! Thanks for the recipe!
Lori says
Omg! I have been for the perfect chocolate chip muffin recipe and ta da this is it! I also put blueberries instead of chocolate chips for my boyfriend and he loved them! He is hard to impress! Thanks so much!
Dena Levant says
These muffins are delish. Moist and chocolatey.
I stuck a piece of Caramilk bar in centre of each muffin so that there is some caramel goodness oozing out when you bite into centre of muffin. Fabulous!
Lori says
I have been looking for a recipe like this forever! So good!
Becky says
These were good. I used a wire whisk and didn’t even have to get out my electric beater. They are low fiber but that’s perfect for my son who can’t tolerate a lot of fiber. He loved them. Quick and easy. I’ll hang on to this recipe.
Deborah says
I’m so glad you both were able to enjoy them!
anickhspot says
those look amazing
Nadia says
hey, loved them, tried couple of times, blogged about them today 🙂 thanks
Deborah says
@Nadia, I’m so glad you liked them!!