The Best Bakery-Style Double-Chocolate Muffins!

Okay, I have been baking these double chocolate muffins for the past month and a half every other week now and I need to share them here.

These double chocolate chip muffins are easy to make, moist and fluffy, and not too sweet! The large size in the tulip liners really gives you that nostalgic “bakery style” vibe.

These have been a favorite and most-requested treat in our little home of family of four. My kids now call me “the best cooker and baker” ^^

We are all chocolate-lovers here–chocolate cake, chocolate frosted donuts, chocolate chip pancakes, chocolate ice cream, chocolate chip banana bread–I mean, everyone requests everything with chocolate as much as possible!

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the master baker

This year I decided to get a little more serious about learning how to bake. I felt that I need to honor my dad in this way.

From as far as I can remember in my time growing up in the Philippines, my dad was baker. A master baker was what he called himself.

And he really was the best in my eyes.

My mom and sisters and I immigrated to the US in 2007, not knowing it would be the last time I saw my dad.

He passed away in 2014.

[PS. I wrote about how I dealt with this grief through yoga here]

never too late

Since I’ve married almost 6 years ago now, I’ve really only been baking chocolate chip banana breads. Never took risks because I told myself “I didn’t have time” and “it was too hard for me”.

This year alone, I have baked chocolate cakes for the first time, three times now (the last one being for our daughter’s birthday party where we had guests over!).

Since then, I’ve also baked for the first time chocolate chip cookies (I know–you probably think these are soo easy though! I just didn’t realize how easy they were ^^) pan de sal (which was probably the one I most honored my dad in!), and now these double-chocolate chip muffins, bakery style!

now let’s get into it!

Materials I Used

How to Make Bakery-Style Double Chocolate Muffins

After searching on Google the perfect recipe, I actually stumbled upon a TikTok video all the way to the bottom of the search page.

This is the link to her video! All the credit for this post (and the amazing result of the best chocolate muffins go to Jen!)

I literally just took a screenshot of her caption where she had the ingredients list and the step by step instructions. But for your convenience I am going to type them out for you below.

Ingredients

1 3/4 cups (210g) all-purpose flour
2/3 cup (60g) unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs (I use room temperature)
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3/4 (170g) cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
2 cups chocolate chips (I used a mix of dark chocolate chips and semi-sweet milk chocolate chips)

Directions

Preheat oven to 425°F
In a medium bow, sift flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar. Whisk well together and set aside.
In a large bowl, combine eggs, vanilla, vegetable oil, sour cream, and milk.
(She pours the dry into the wet ingredients but I do the opposite) Create a “crater” in the middle of the dry ingredients and slowly pour the wet ingredients into it. Fold together with a spatula until almost combined.
Set aside about a half cup of chocolate chips for the topping. Fold in the rest until just combined.
Scoop the batter into muffin liners (she calls you to fill them to the top, but I find I only have enough batter to fill up 2/3 each cup to make a dozen muffins). Sprinkle chocolate chips on top.
Bake at 425°F for 6 minutes, then reduce temperature to 350°F for 14 minutes.

Take them out of the oven and check for doneness by inserting a toothpick in the middle of each cup. If they come out clean, turn the oven off.

Note: if you “stab” a chocolate chip with a toothpick don’t let it trick you into thinking they’re not done. Totally made this mistake the first time and put it back in the oven for an additional 3 minutes. I ended up with dry muffins!

Leave the muffins in the pan for about 5 minutes, then transfer onto a cooling rack.

Serve with coffee or milk. Enjoy!!

Let me know if you tried this!