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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Just tried this recipe but I substituted half of the sugar with applesauce... We'll see how they turn out! Thanks for the recipe!
Great idea! I am sure they turned out great!
I want to make these but don't keep vegetable oil on hand, think I can substitute coconut oil?
First time making the Greek yogurt chocolate chip muffins. They were delicious, moist and perfect. I was a little nervous since the batter was a little bit thick, not cookie dough kind but thicker than other recipes. What else have you tried with the same basic recipe? Thank you so much!
These muffins are fabulous. I made mine with white whole grain flour and my grandkids loved them. I might try to cut down on sugar next time.
This is my second time making these this week. They turned out delicious!
My muffins turn out heavy and dense. Not sure where goes wrong.
I literally just pulled these out of the oven, yum! So easy to make. Sometimes when trying recipes from Pinterest I've a little disappointed, not this time. Delicious!!
I just made these for my daughters snack day at preschool Wednesday & we both LOVED them. I did sift the flour before measuring, but the dough was still too thick. I added in 6 TBSP of buttermilk then the chips. They turned out PERFECT, so light, moist and fluffy!! Can not wait to make more of these to have on hand. Going to throw some berries in a batch of them! Thank you so much!
These looked so yummy I decided to give them a try. I'm no Baker. ..usually only once in a blue moon I will get in the baking mood. They turned out great. I must have not sifted enough because my batter was too stiff. I added another 2/3 cups of yogurt and you would never know I messed up. Lol They really are yummy as they look. Thanks for bringing out my inner baking diva!
Amanda, glad you loved the muffins! It was so funny to read that you added a whole 2/3 cups of yogurt to compensate for too much flour - that's what I love about Greek yogurt - it's thick enough (yet still a wet ingredient) that even if you add a bit extra, it's not really going to hurt the recipe. 🙂 It's only going to help the batter get the nice rich texture. 🙂
Recipe turned out good but the texture was not quite as soft as a regular muffin. The outside was a little too crunchy, almost like a french bread texture and the inside a little on the dry side. I did follow the step about sifting the flour.
I also used whole weat flour instead of regular flour and stevia in the raw instead of sugar. Do you think these could make a big difference?
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Yes, Carol! Using whole wheat flour changes the whole game when baking. 🙂 Whole wheat flour is much drier than the regular flour, and you have to use only 1 and 1/2 cups of whole wheat flour for a recipe that would usually demand 2 full cups of regular all-purpose flour. Here is the post where I made similar muffins to these with the whole wheat flour: whole wheat banana bread muffins
Omg! I have finally found the perfect muffin recipe! I did alter it a tad. I added vanilla, cinnamon and used 1/2 cup of white sugar and 1/2 cup of brown sugar in lieu of the cup of white sugar. This is by far the best muffin recipe I have tried! Thanks for sharing!!!!
I am so happy you liked it! I see you spiced it up a bit with vanilla and cinnamon - both are great additions!
I love this recipe it came out very moist , I do agree you have to sift the flour . My girl could not get enough no more pre package muffins for this house . Thank you so much for sharing this recipe .
Michelle, thank you for your sweet comment! I am glad your family enjoyed this recipe so much. I agree - no pre-packaged muffins for me here, either! 🙂