I just baked a double batch of Pumpkin Muffins today. I experimented with chocolate chips after seeing a friend’s chocolate chip pumpkin bread recipe. They turned out really good! Here’s the revised recipe:
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins
Recipe Summary:
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes for mini-muffins or 35 minutes for regular sized muffins
Yield: 6 dozen mini-muffins or 3 dozen muffins
Dry Ingredients:
4 cups all-purpose flour
4 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients:
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
6 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
6 cups fresh shredded pumpkin
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- Prepare the baking pans by either buttering and flouring them, spraying the pans with nonstick cooking spray, or lining them with paper muffin liners or parchment paper.
- Sift the dry ingredients together: flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In a separate bowl, mix the wet ingredients: sugar, vegetable oil, applesauce, eggs, and vanilla.
- Combine both mixtures and fold in the shredded pumpkin and chocolate chips.
- Once the ingredients are all incorporated, scoop into prepared muffin tins.
- Bake for 25 minutes for mini-muffins or 35 minutes for regular sized muffins. Since ovens vary, start checking the muffins when your kitchen starts to smell really good. When the muffins are done, a knife or toothpick inserted into the middle of a center muffin will come out clean.
- Cool for 15 minutes and turn out onto a cooling rack.
- Refrigerate leftovers. Reheat in broiler or toaster oven for best results.
Variations:
Substitute leftover Halloween candy for the the chocolate chips! Just cut up chocolate bars into bite sized pieces and fold in with the shredded pumpkin. Hershey bars and M&M’s are the obvious choices, but feel free to experiment with Snickers, Almond Joy, etc.!
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This looks delicious! I can’t wait to try it out this weekend.
Good gracious. To-die-for muffins.
It’s time to bake these again…We’ve got lots of leftover Easter chocolate!