These bakery style chocolate chip muffins are soft, buttery, and loaded with chocolate chips! With just a few simple ingredients, you can easily have homemade muffins in under 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and line a 12-count muffin pan with cupcake liners or non-stick spray.
Melt the butter and allow it to cool for 2 minutes. In a large bowl, whisk together the melted butter, brown sugar, sugar, egg, milk, yogurt, and vanilla extract until combined.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Pour the dry ingredients into the wet and gently fold together using a rubber spatula just until combined. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
Divide the batter up evenly, filling each muffin cup just barely to the top with batter. Sprinkle on some coarse sugar if desired and bake for 15-18 minutes. Use a toothpick to check the centers for doneness.
Allow the muffins to cool in the muffin pan for 5 minutes. Then transfer them over to a wire rack to finish cooling completely. Keep leftovers in an airtight container on the counter for up to 7 days.
Notes:
Muffin Pan: Prep a 12-count muffin pan by lining it with cupcake liners. If you don’t have liners, spray each muffin cup with nonstick cooking spray. Here are the cupcake liners I use for both cupcakes and muffins.Room Temperature Ingredients: I recommend pulling out the egg, milk, and yogurt from the refrigerator 1 hour before baking. Having those ingredients at room temperature will help to achieve a soft and tender muffin.Folding: When you add the dry ingredients into the wet it’s very important that you fold the ingredients together. Folding: to carefully combine ingredients without stirring or beating. We do this by using a wooden spoon or silicone spatula until the ingredients are just combined with each other, “folding” everything together.Muffin Batter: Fill each muffin cup to the top with batter. I used my #24 cookie scoop to make this process a lot easier and less messy.Topping: Sprinkle coarse sugar over the muffin batter before baking. You could also add extra chocolate chips to the top before baking.