A good muffin recipe is hard to find. I’ve tried so many that resulted in dense, short, and tasteless muffins that I began to give up hope. Behold the King Arthur Flour recipe! Not only are these muffins moist, domed, and filled with chocolate chips, they’re super easy to make. Eight ingredients and two bowls means easy baking and minimal cleanup.
Plus, if you don’t like chocolate chips in your muffins (I’ll pretend you didn’t say that.), you can easily swap them out for raspberries or another fruit. This recipe is really versatile and works with any kind of mix-in.
Ingredients
2 cups pastry flour or all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil or softened butter
2 large eggs
Preparation
Preheat oven to 500°F. (Don’t panic, the temperature will be reduced later.)
Blend together the dry ingredients and chocolate chips.
Beat the liquid ingredients (milk, oil or butter, and eggs) together until they are light. I used my OXO egg beater [1] for this, and it worked perfectly.
Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients. Take a fork or wire whisk and blend the two for 20 seconds. The batter will be lumpy, but that’s fine.
Fill cups of a lightly greased muffin tin two-thirds to three-quarters full. Place muffins in the oven and immediately drop temperature to 400°F*. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until muffins test done.
Yields: 12 muffins, 24 mini-muffins, or six jumbo muffins.
Recipe adapted from King Arthur Flour [2].