Eggless Chocolate Muffins

Published: Sep 1, 2022 · Last Modified: Sep 1, 2022 by Kanan Patel / 75 Comments

These eggless chocolate muffins are made with an intense chocolate batter and studded with chocolate chips throughout. These egg-free double chocolate muffins taste incredible and are super easy to make, perfect for breakfast or as a snack!

Stack of chocolate muffins on a cooling rack with chocolate chips in front.

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❤️About This Recipe
🧾Ingredient Notes
👩‍🍳Step By Step Photo Instructions
💭Expert Tips
🧁 Storage Instructions
📋 Recipe Card
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❤️About This Recipe

Flavor: Super intensely chocolatey. These eggless chocolate muffins are rich in chocolate flavor and are made with natural cocoa powder and packed full of chocolate chips in every bite.
Texture: These are super moist, soft and slightly spongy with a bread-like texture. You won’t believe these chocolate muffins are made without eggs.
Quick & Easy: You’ll need 2 bowls (one for wet and one for dry), mix both, fold in chocolate chips and muffin batter is ready in under 10 minutes.
Simple ingredients: These eggless chocolate muffins are made with easy-to-find ingredients or probably you already have on hand.

🧾Ingredient Notes

Here is the pic of the ingredients you’ll need to make eggless chocolate muffins recipe.

Eggless chocolate muffins ingredients in bowls and spoons with labels.

Flour: All purpose flour is used here. For all my baking recipes, always spooned the flour into a measuring cup and leveled it (not scooped from the bag or container).
Sugar: Regular white granulated sugar is used.
Cocoa powder: I have used 100% natural unsweetened cocoa powder, the ones that are widely available in any grocery store like Hershey’s, Ghirardelli, etc. This makes a chocolatey base for muffins.
Baking powder and Baking soda: Both help egg-free muffins rise.
Salt: It enhances the flavor making muffins extra delicious.
Oil: It helps muffins to stay soft and moist for longer. I recommend using any flavorless oil like corn, canola, avocado, safflower, vegetable, etc.
Vanilla: Always use pure vanilla extract and stay away from imitation essence.
Vinegar: The acidity helps with the rise and produces a tender crumb.
Chocolate chips: I prefer to use semi-sweet or bitter-sweet chocolate chips for a rich chocolate flavor, use good quality chocolate chips for best results.

👩‍🍳Step By Step Photo Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners.

1) Take dry ingredients (flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt) in a bowl.

2) Whisk it until everything is well combined. If your flour and cocoa powder have more lumps then you should sift the mixture.

Collage of 2 images showing dry ingredients in a bowl and mixed.

3) In another large bowl, add wet ingredients (water, oil, vanilla, and vinegar).

4) Whisk it until well combined.

Collage of 2 images showing wet ingredients in a bowl and mixed.

5) Add dry flour mixture to the wet mixture.

6) Start mixing using a wire whisk and halfway through switch to a spatula to avoid overmixing. Do scrap the sides and bottom of the bowl while mixing.

7) Add chocolate chips.

8) Fold them into the batter using a spatula.

Collage of 4 images showing mixing dry and wet to make a batter, folding chocolate chips.

9) Divide the muffin batter into the prepared pan evenly.

10) Bake in preheated oven for 20-22 minutes or a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let them cool in the pan for 5 minutes then transfer them to a cooling rack.

Collage of 2 images showing muffin batter divided into the muffin pan, baked muffins.

💭Expert Tips

Check that the baking powder and baking soda are still fresh.
Always add dry to wet mixture as it’s easy to mix and to avoid overmixing.
Don’t overmix the batter (Don’t use the mixer) otherwise, muffins turn dense and hard.
I prefer muffin liners with this kind of sweet muffin; the sides will stay soft and moist on the paper and won’t stick to your pan.
Variation:
- Try adding white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips or butterscotch chips instead of regular chocolate chips.
- Try other flavors by adding orange zest or peppermint extract (for mint chocolate chip flavor).

🧁 Storage Instructions

At room temperature, these eggless chocolate muffins stay good for 2-3 days in an airtight container.
In the fridge, they stay good for up to a week.
In the freezer, they stay good for up to 3 months. Remove the muffin liner, wrap individual muffins into plastic wrap and freeze. Once frozen transfer them to a freeze-safe ziplock bag.
To thaw the muffins quickly, microwave them for 15-17 seconds only. Or leave it on the counter until thaws completely.

Cup open half eggless chocolate muffin to show texture.

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