DELISH Chocolate Chip Muffins (gluten-free)

These Bakery-Style Chocolate Chip Muffins are a delicious one-bowl gluten-free muffin recipe. They’re soft, moist and have a delicious crackly muffin top.

Today’s homemade chocolate chip muffins are bakery-style, gluten-free and incredibly easy to make! They’re loaded with flavor and filled with chocolate chips. And if you love my bakery-style blueberry muffins, you will love these too!

And in addition to how flavorful and delicious these muffins are, the ingredient list is super simple. If you are a frequent baker of my recipes, you should have all of these already in your pantry or fridge! These make for a delicious breakfast, brunch or snack recipe too. I love warming them up to have a little hot with a smear of butter in the middle – SO good.

I share some tips for success making these muffins below, but know that in order to achieve that “bakery muffin top” look – the muffin liners need to be filled to the top. If you only fill them 3/4 the way or 1/2 way, they won’t be as fluffy and crackly at the top. I also recommend baking them on the middle rack of the oven for optimal temperature and heat distribution.

I cannot wait to hear what you guys think of these muffins!

Tip: add in some walnuts or a mix of dark chocolate and milk chocolate for mix-in’s if you want!

What ingredients are in these gluten-free chocolate chip muffins:

• Unsalted softened butter – I like to quickly soften butter but sitting on it under my leg (sounds wild but it works!)
• Coconut sugar – or use a mix of 1/2 cane sugar and 1/2 brown sugar but I love the texture and flavor coconut sugar adds
• Milk of choice – almond, cow, anything works! I like to use an unsweetened milk so it doesn’t add more sugar (the muffins are sweet enough!)
• Creamy yogurt of choice – anything plain or vanilla and you can use dairy or non-dairy. I usually use greek yogurt
• Eggs – I haven’t tested flax eggs here but I do think it would work well
• Gluten-free flour – or use an all purpose flour if not gluten-free
• Almond flour – I love using this WITH gluten-free flour because it makes the muffins more moist and not as dry as using all all purpose flour
• Chocolate chips – plus more for topping if desired

How to make bakery-style chocolate chip muffins at home:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper liners (make sure. oven rack is on middle rack)
2. In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar for 1 to 2 minutes
3. Then add in milk, yogurt, eggs and vanilla extract and cream until combined
4. Mix in the flours, baking powder and baking soda
5. Fold in the chocolate chips (reserving some for sprinkling on top)
6. Scoop the batter into the muffin cases, dividing it equally between 12 and sprinkle with the reserved chocolate chips
7. Bake for 18 – 20 minutes or until muffin tops are golden brown on top and an inserted toothpick comes out clean (or with a few moist crumbs attached)
8. Leave in the muffin tin for 3 – 4 minutes, then remove from the tin and place onto a wire cooling rack to cool completely and enjoy!

Tips for success:

• If you want tall muffin tops like you see in bakeries, fill your muffin tins all the way to the top! Don’t fill them halfway or 3/4 way or they won’t have that muffin top look. Fill them to the top of the muffin pan
• Muffins bake best at 375 degrees F. This helps a crackly golden top for muffins as opposed to cookies and other baked goods who need 350 degrees F
• This is the muffin tray I use and these are the paper liners I love! Helps to remove the muffins easily too once they’re done baking
• The butter should be a room temperature so it beats easily into the batter. I also like the yogurt and milk to be a little closer to room temp but if that isn’t an option, it’s no big deal
• If you want to add in more mix-in’s you can like walnuts, white chocolate chips or anything else

A few other delicious gluten-free muffins to make:

Starbucks Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins (gluten-free)

Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins (gluten-free)

Healthy Peanut Butter Banana Muffins (gluten-free)

Vegan Cinnamon Roll Banana Bread Muffins