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Greek yogurt chocolate chip muffins are amazingly soft, light and fluffy, with that beautiful airy texture! Made with Greek yogurt, which replaces some of the vegetable oil, thus reducing the fat content!
Sometimes I crave chocolate chip muffins for breakfast. Today is one of those days. I love to have a muffin with a glass of hot tea right after I've had some eggs and/or sausage. It makes my breakfast complete. These Greek yogurt chocolate chip muffins will make your breakfast complete, too!
I loved these so much, I actually had one for breakfast, and the second one - after dinner, for dessert! So, yes, make these chocolate chip muffins both for breakfast and dessert!
It takes no time to prepare these muffins, so, if I were you, I would get your coffee maker started or start boiling water for hot tea. Warm drinks are perfect with these breakfast muffins, as they will make chocolate chips melt in your mouth! Enjoy!
Greek yogurt chocolate chip muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour , sifted or otherwise aerated (see my note below)
- 1 cup white sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- ⅔ cup Greek yogurt (I used 2% plain Greek yogurt)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
Important note about properly measuring flour using measuring cups:
- The proper way to measure flour using measuring cups is to aerate it first. This is done either by sifting flour, or aerating it by fluffing it up and whisking it well, then spooning it into the measuring cup, then carefully removing any excess flour with a knife. If you just stick that measuring cup in the bag of flour and scoop some out, you will get a lot more flour than what the recipe calls for. Do aerate the flour, or you will end up with dry dough! 🙂
How to make muffins:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line muffin cups with muffin liners.
- In a medium bowl, mix together flour, white sugar, salt, and baking powder.
- In a separate large bowl, add vegetable oil, 2 eggs, and Greek yogurt and whisk to combine.
- Add flour mixture from step 2 to the liquid mixture in step 3 and mix just enough to combine.
- Fold in the chocolate chips into the batter from step 4.
- Fill muffin cups with the muffin batter about ¾ full. Bake for about 20 minutes in the oven, or until toothpick inserted in the center of the muffin comes out clean.
Nutrition
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The nutritional information on this website is only an estimate and is provided for convenience and as a courtesy only. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed. It should not be used as a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
Has anyone tried this with brown sugar or coconut sugar? I'm assuming I'll get a chocolate chip cookie flavor but I'm unsure of the texture.
You can use all brown sugar with this recipe. Brown sugar is a little bit sweeter and more moist than white sugar, so your muffins might be a little sweeter! But the texture should be about the same. Maybe, the muffins will be a little more moist the next day.
These muffins were amazing! They were chocolatey and very moist! Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Kim, I am glad you enjoyed the recipe! I love how soft, light, and moist these are! Plus, all the chocolate chips make them even better!
These are my favorite chocolate chip muffins!! I've made them many times! This morning I went to make them and didn't have greek yogurt, bought regular plain yogurt instead (stoneyfield, I had already mixed the dry ingredients and decided to try with the regular yogurt, and just wanted to let anyone who is questioning using regular, that it works just as well!! Did have to increase the baking time for probably 5 mins though due to the regular yogurt being more moist. I also always add 1 tsp of vanilla to this recipe because I love the vanilla flavor! 🙂
Erin, so glad you liked the muffins! I love these too!
Did anyone ever have a problem with the cupcake paper sticking to the bottom of the muffins?
Mary, no, my cupcake liners didn't stick. I would think what could make them stick is filling the cups with too much batter,and then batter (or berries) leaking to the bottom of the cup between the paper and the cup.
Put the mixture together and ended up very dry this recipe did not turn out how I had hoped. didnt even put in the chocolate chips. threw it out so disappointed.
Did you sift the flour? You might've overpacked the flour into a cup without sifting it which would result in dry mixture. I would suggest ALWAYS sifting your flour first, before measuring with cups, otherwise a lot of recipes will be huge disappointments to you.
I did exactly as you said an my dough as as thick as cookie dough and we're almost burnt after 15 mins at 400 degrees... All four didn't incorporate. I kept looking over recipes cause I thought I mis-read....no a lot of wet ingredients.
I really wanted to like these but they were not good. My dough was hard to mix up. The muffins were not moist and had no flavor. Will not make again. Sorry 🙁
Stephanie, this usually happens when too much flour is used. Did you sift or otherwise aerate the flour? If you just scoop the flour with the measuring cup out of the bag, there is a tendency to overpack flour into a measuring cup. To properly measure the flour, make sure to fluff it up, sift it, aerate it or use scale, otherwise you will experience failure with lots of baking recipes! I will add a note to this post as a reminder on how to measure the flour properly! 🙂
I love light muffins! These look delicious!
I love muffins! They're such a perfect food! These muffins look great. Yogurt in cakes is such a great addition, can't wait to try the recipe 🙂
Julia, I love the texture of your muffins! They look so adorably delicious.
I love using greek yogurt in baking. Your pictures are always so gorgeous! They make me wish I had one of these right now.
I can't tell you how much I love chocolate chip muffins. These look absolutely perfect!
These are gorgeous! I crave chocolate for breakfast sometimes too, so chocolate chip muffins would be perfect. 🙂
These look amazing! I love using greek yoghurt in baked goods, it gives it such an amazing texture!