Out of all of the many, many muffin recipes that I have – these are John’s favorite. I truly can not tell you how very many times I have made these muffins (let’s just put it this way – I can whip up these muffins entirely from memory!)
This recipe has not been an easy creation, though. You see, unlike some other muffins which have a long list of ingredients that add lots of flavor to the batter, chocolate chips muffins rely ONLY on the batter for their flavor. And how do traditional chocolate chip muffins get that delicious flavor that we all love? Butter. Lots and lots of butter! Now I don’t mind a pat of butter added to a recipe here and there, but I would not use an entire stick of butter to make one recipe. So after multiple attempts, I finally came up with the desired “buttery” delicious flavor and texture – without using any fatty butter!! So here they are — healthy, figure friendly, and “John approved”!
1 1/3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 whole egg, plus one additional egg white
1 cup fat free plain or vanilla yogurt
2 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup skim milk
1/3 cup light brown sugar or maple syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla
3/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and spray a 6 cup jumbo (or 12 cup standard) muffin tin with cooking spray (or use paper liners); set aside.
In a large bowl combine flours, baking powder, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl whisk together eggs, yogurt, oil, milk, sugar (or maple syrup) and vanilla. Add the dry ingredients to the wet and stir until everything is just moistened. Fold in chocolate chips.
Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, filling them about 2/3 full. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Allow the muffins to cool for 10-15 minutes before removing them from the muffin tin.
Makes 6 jumbo (or 12 standard) muffins. Per jumbo muffin: 263 calories, 4 g total fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 g trans fat, 31 g carbohydrates, 5 g fiber, 4 g added sugar, 7 g protein, 127 mg sodium, 13 mg cholesterol.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Jennifer // Sep 7, 2007 at 2:14 pm
I love that you make Jumbo muffins, I’ve been losing weight week by week by eating these instead of the huge muffins at the bakery on my way to work which would be about 800 calories! Thanks so much, I love all of your recipes.
2 roland // Sep 30, 2007 at 10:26 am
love these muffins – followed the recipe exactly and they came out better than I thought! (Tasted good too!)
3 Rebecca // Oct 3, 2007 at 5:12 pm
I made these for my kids afterschool snack today. I thought they were very good. Will make again.
4 Thecpa // Nov 10, 2007 at 2:36 pm
We just made these last week. They are wonderful! Another very popular muffin at our house. Thanks for the recipe.
5 Jessica // Nov 13, 2007 at 12:17 am
Made these tonight- they are my fav so far out of all your muffin recipes! (Next on my to-bake list are the cinnamon roll muffins, I can’t wait!)
6 Darlene // Sep 20, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Just found your blog. The muffins look delicious. Thanks for sharing.
7 J // Oct 27, 2009 at 7:44 pm
These were very tasty. I will be cooking them again.
8 azzah // Dec 11, 2009 at 10:49 pm
OMG THESE ARE THE BEST MUFFINS I JUST TASTED IN MY LIFE!!!!! I just ate one out of the oven and felt guilty! No way these can be low fat! Im absolutely ecstatic I came upon your website, thank you soo much for posting these
9 Cory // Jun 29, 2010 at 8:14 pm
I am interested in trying these muffins but I can fing whole wheat pastry flour. Can I use whole wheat flour instead?
10 Shannon // Jul 1, 2010 at 7:31 am
Cory – you can use half whole wheat flour and half all purpose flour. Using all whole wheat flour will the muffins WAY to dense and heavy.
11 Casey // Aug 25, 2010 at 4:06 pm
how many calories are in a single muffin? i’m going to try this recipe and from the comments here, the muffins seem like a hit!
12 Shannon // Aug 25, 2010 at 8:01 pm
Casey,
Each jumbo muffin has 263 calories, a standard sized muffin would be half of that – so, about 130. Hope that helps!
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