I’ve had a serious hankering for muffins lately for breakfast. Now when it comes to muffins there are a couple of varieties: healthy, healthy-ish, and just-call-it-a-cupcake. (You know what I’m talking about)! When I started down the path of making some Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip muffins, I was thinking they’d fall into the just-call-it-a-cupcake category, but these actually are more healthy-ish. The low sugar content in the dough yields a peanut buttery bread-like muffin that’s very mildly sweet. Definitely don’t leave out the chocolate chips without increasing the sugar content in this recipe. These were also more filling than expected and the peanut butter helped keep my tummy full longer, which is even better!
What’s your favorite muffin variety? I need some new flavors!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins
Yields: 1 dozen muffins
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp kosher salt
3 Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
1/2 cup peanut butter
1 cup whole milk
1large egg, beaten
3/4 cup chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350°. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a large mixing bowl. In a separate medium sized bowl, whisk together the butter, sugar, peanut butter, eggs, and milk. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and stir just until combined; fold in the chocolate chips.
Coat a nonstick muffin pan with cooking spray (or line with muffin liners). Fill each muffin cup about 3/4 full with batter. Bake 15-20 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Best served same day.
Source: Adapted from Real Simple
Tagged as:
Breakfast,
chocolate,
Muffins
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These sound really good, I got a mini muffin maker for Christmas and I have been mini muffin making like crazy. I think these are going in there this weekend! I’ll report back
They are delicious! Thank you so much for the recipe!
I used 1 cup of all purpose flour with 1 cup of whole wheat flour and it worked well, other than having to add a bit more liquid.
I like the low sugar content and the bread-like consistency!
Next time I might add more peanut butter for a more noticeable peanut butter flavour, or I might add some peanut butter chips to the mixture!
These are good! I did add cocoa powder to the dough for extra chocolate flavor. Question though- your recipe says to add sugar twice… was this a typo or was some sugar to be reserved to mix in with the butter?
Deborah! Thanks for catching that! I’ve corrected the recipe!
You just can’t go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate. Yum!
Yummy! I’ve been making quite a few sweet muffins, too, so it’d be nice to try some that are a little better for me
Love the peanut butter addition, especially for the nutritional benefits, not just the flavor! I love chocolate muffins, poppy seed muffins, and blueberry muffins, personally! Or really any kind of muffin… can’t wait to see what you come up with!
PB & C is my favorite combo ever!
Great recipe. I tried it at home. I will be making it available to my clients.