Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe
These fluffy gluten free chocolate chip muffins have that beautiful bakery-style dome, a chewy but soft crumb, and plenty of chocolate chips!
Servings: 12 muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups (280 g) all purpose gluten free flour blend (See Recipe Notes)
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum omit if your blend already contains it
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¾ cup (150 g) granulated sugar
- 4 tablespoons (56 g) unsalted butter melted and cooled
- 3 tablespoons (42 g) neutral oil (canola, grapeseed, vegetable, peanut, etc.)
- ⅝ cup (5 fluid ounces) buttermilk at room temperature (See Recipe Notes)
- 2 (100 g (weighed out of shell)) eggs at room temperature, beaten
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips plus up to 1 ounce more
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375°F. Line the wells of a standard 12-cup muffin tin and set the tin aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, place the flour, xanthan gum, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and granulated sugar, and whisk to combine well.
- Create a well in the center of the dry ingredients, and add the melted butter, neutral oil, buttermilk, beaten eggs, and vanilla, and mix until just combined.
- Add 4 ounces of the chocolate chips, and mix until evenly distributed throughout the batter. Stir in a few more chocolate chips if you’d like a more dense ratio of chips.
- Fill the wells of your muffin tin about ¾ of the way full, shake the pan back and forth to distribute the batter more evenly, and/or smooth the tops with wet fingers. If there are any chips remaining, you can place them on top of the batter in the wells and press down gently to adhere.
- Place the muffin tin in the center of the preheated oven and bake until the top of the center muffin springs back when pressed gently in the center, and it’s lightly golden brown on the edges (about 18 minutes). Do not overbake.
- Remove the pan from the oven and remove the muffins immediately from the tin. Place them on a wire rack to cool before serving.
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Notes
Flour blend notes
My favorite gluten free flour blends are Better Batter's original blend gluten free flour and Nicole's Best multipurpose blend (with xanthan gum added as per the recipe). Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1 Gluten Free Baking Flour should also work, but you'll need to add an additional 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum to the muffin dry ingredients or the muffins will look good, but will be crumbly.
To make your own blend using one of my “mock” recipes, please see the all purpose gluten free flour blends page.
For buttermilk
If you don’t have buttermilk, you can always substitute it with half plain unsweetened yogurt (not the Greek kind) and half milk, by volume. Dairy or dairy-free. Plain kefir also works as a 1 to 1 substitute for buttermilk.
Nutrition
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 271kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 39mg | Sodium: 218mg | Potassium: 83mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 182IU | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 1mg
