Muffins have never been my choice as far as baked goods go. I usually prefer a donut or a brownie or anything extremely chocolatey. But strangely muffins were one of my major pregnancy cravings. One cold, snowy morning I was woken out of my sleep with an enormously overpowering desire for chocolate chip muffins. I could not shake it and I felt like some sort of addict. Normally in this situation I would just run out and buy a muffin somewhere but as I looked out my window snow was everywhere. Not in a pretty, wintertime scene sort of way but in a raging blizzardy one.
That’s when I knew I would have to make them myself. I quietly took out my phone, searched and found this recipe from Sally’ s Baking Addiction. I was exhausted, cranky, cold, hungry, huge and muffin-starved but I trudged through the recipe with Jake barking at my feet the entire time. I was hugely rewarded in the end because this recipe made the most magical, satisfying muffins I have ever tasted. I spent most of that morning eating most of the muffins in bed and I spent most of that night listening to my husband complain about muffin crumbs in the sheets.
This recipe produces fluffy muffins with a beautifully crisp top outer layer. Be sure to fill your muffin cups all the way so you get the really big tops perfect for breaking off.
I have to limit myself as to how often I bake these because I absolutely cannot control myself with these in the house. You can really justify eating a muffin at any point in the day so that doesn’t help. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack? Just hand me a muffin.
Here is my set up from that first snowy morning I baked these. No, there is no parsley in the muffins. I’m not really sure why it’s in the middle of my muffin ingredients.
I didn’t change a thing in this recipe except I didn’t have the sugar to sprinkle on the top and I’m not a huge fan of cinnamon so I left that out.
I have to admit I never thought I would eat through 6 jumbo muffins so quickly. How quickly? At the rate of a starving pregnant woman with a craving trapped in her house during a blizzard.
Uggh these muffins, why you gotta be so good?
- 3 cups (375) all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 eggs, room temperature preferred
- 1 cup (200g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (240ml) milk
- 1/2 cup (120ml) canola oil (or vegetable oil/melted coconut oil)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 and 1/2 cups (270g) semi-sweet chocolate chips (or chocolate chunks; or dark chocolate; or milk chocolate)
- coarse sugar for sprinkling (optional)
- http://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2013/01/17/bakery-style-chocolate-chip-muffins/
Hello! My name is Christina and I started this blog to share my love of food. You can find recipes of all kinds here but I try to keep them simple and of course delicious! 
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Nothing like muffin crumbs in the sheets, right? 😉 These look delicious – gorgeous pics too with that steam rising.
Thanks Marissa! haha yea if I’m going to have crumbs in bed it better be muffin ones!
These muffins look delicious! You can’t go wrong with chocolate chips!
Thanks Matea!
No you can’t, chocolate chips make everything taste better!