Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins (Bakery-Fashion)

August 17, 2024

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Prepare for pumpkin season with the BEST pumpkin chocolate chip muffins – filled with a lot pumpkin taste! Plus, crunchy pecans and further chocolate chips. Overfill the muffin pan with muffin batter to attain sky-high muffin tops.

Pumpkin chocolate chip muffin in paper liner with a bite taken out.

The Greatest Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe?

These are my favourite pumpkin muffins. Like, ever! Which is a daring assertion contemplating I’ve plenty of pumpkin muffin recipes in my life that I really like. However these are simply particular!

Excellent for pumpkin season… we love these for breakfast with a pumpkin spice latte!
Tons of pumpkin taste AND pumpkin spice taste due to pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice.
Brown sugar, spices, molasses, and vanilla enhances the pumpkin taste much more.
Gooey chocolate and tons of pecans add scrumptious texture.
Filling the muffin pan with muffin batter all the best way to the highest creates enormous bakery-style pumpkin muffins.

Ingredients for pumpkin chocolate chip muffins.

Pumpkin Muffin Components

Eggs: Use massive eggs and produce them to room temperature earlier than baking.
Brown Sugar: I want gentle brown sugar, however darkish will work positive, too. I don’t recommend subbing granulated sugar right here.
Pumpkin Puree: This isn’t the identical as pumpkin pie combine! Use pure pumpkin puree. Home made will work, however canned works greatest as a result of the moisture ranges are constant. Should you use selfmade pumpkin puree, I recommend dabbing among the extra moisture out earlier than use.
Molasses: Search for the common selection, not blackstrap or strong, that are too robust in taste for this recipe. This ingredient enhances the pumpkin taste and makes the muffin batter additional moist.
Vanilla Extract: As at all times, I recommend avoiding imitation vanilla. However bourbon vanilla extract could be scrumptious in these pumpkin muffins!
Oil: Canola or vegetable oil work nice and don’t add taste. Refined coconut oil and unrefined (when you just like the refined coconut taste) each work as properly. Simply be sure you soften them first. Or use a gentle olive oil when you don’t thoughts the flavour it provides.
Milk: Complete milk (aka full-fat) works greatest right here. However Thai fashion coconut milk will work when you’re searching for a dairy free possibility. I don’t recommend almond milk or oat milk as a result of they don’t have sufficient fats content material.
Flour: All-purpose flour works greatest. I don’t recommend altering the flour combination for greatest outcomes.
Baking Powder: Sure, 1 and 1/2 TABLESPOONS. That’s what offers these muffins their elevate and jumbo muffin tops. Don’t sub for baking soda!
Spices: Along with pumpkin pie spice, this recipe requires cinnamon, ginger, and allspice. Should you don’t have these particular person spices, add an additional teaspoon and 1/2 of pumpkin spice.
Pecans: I prefer to flippantly toast them on the stovetop earlier than use, to boost their taste. However be at liberty to roast them or toast them nevertheless you like to take action.
Chocolate: I really like utilizing semi-sweet chocolate right here, however darkish chocolate, milk chocolate, and even white chocolate all will work. I exploit a mix of chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. However you need to use all one or one other.

Muffin pan filled with pumpkin muffin batter.

A muffin tin full with pumpkin chocolate chip muffin batter.

The way to Make Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins

Baking Prep: Preheat your oven half-hour earlier than you propose on baking. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners.
Make the Muffin Batter: In a big bowl, whisk collectively the dry substances. In a separate bowl whisk up the brown sugar and moist substances. Fold within the dry substances into the moist substances and stir to mix. DO NOT OVER MIX HERE! Toss within the pecans and chocolate and blend simply till mixed.
Fill the Muffin Pan: Fill every muffin cup with muffin batter. You’ll need to divide the batter as evenly as potential. And fill all of them the best way as much as the highest. In reality, the muffin batter will go over the paper liners slightly bit and that’s okay!
Add Garnish: Press additional chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, or pecans on high of the muffin batter earlier than baking.
Bake the Pumpkin Muffins: Place the muffin pan within the oven and bake. They’re prepared to return out of the oven when a toothpick inserted in the course of a muffin comes out clear.
Cool the Muffins: Let the muffins cool within the pan for quarter-hour, then get pleasure from heat, or cool utterly on a wire rack.

Pumpkin chocolate chip muffins on a wire rack.

Can I Freeze Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins?

Sure!!! Identical to my common chocolate chip muffins, these muffins freeze nice.

Merely wrap every muffin in plastic wrap, then place them in a freezer protected ziplock bag and freeze for as much as 2 months.
Thaw within the fridge or on the counter till delicate sufficient to eat. Or pop them within the oven (unwrapped) for 10 minutes or so.
I normally set the oven at 300 levels (F) when thawing in order that they don’t dry out.

You may leap to the recipe under! These are a must-try for pumpkin season or for Thanksgiving breakfast.

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