These pumpkin chocolate chip muffins are light and tender treats full of warm spices and plenty of chocolate chips. Pumpkin muffins make for a great dessert, after school snack or party offering.
You can never go wrong with baked goods when they involve pumpkin. Some of my favorites include pumpkin gooey butter cake and pumpkin chocolate chip cookies. These pumpkin chocolate chip muffins are great to have on hand for a fall snack, and they freeze well too, so make a double batch!
It’s time for everything pumpkin, and these pumpkin chocolate chip muffins definitely do not disappoint. They’re loaded with gooey chocolate chips and plenty of pumpkin spice flavor. I love to make these muffins as an after school snack for the kids!
How do you make pumpkin chocolate chip muffins?
These muffins rely on pumpkin puree and vegetable oil for their moist and tender texture. Other ingredients include flour, eggs, sugar and pumpkin pie spice. Toss in some chocolate chips and your muffins are ready to go into the oven.
Tips for Pumpkin Muffins
- Looking to cut back on calories? You can substitute applesauce for half of the oil.
- If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice in the house, you can use cinnamon with a pinch of ground ginger and nutmeg mixed in.
- You can make these muffins with either semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips.
- Sprinkle some extra chocolate chips over the tops of the muffins before they go into the oven for an extra special presentation.
- You can either use paper muffin liners, or simply spray the muffin tin with cooking spray before pouring in the batter.
- The batter can be made in advance and refrigerated for up to one day before use.
These muffins freeze beautifully – simply place them in a resealable bag then freeze for up to 3 months. You can either thaw your muffins at room temperature, or warm them up in the microwave when you’re ready to eat. This recipe makes 12 muffins, but can easily be doubled to make 24 muffins if you’re banking on having extras for the freezer.
You can get creative and add some more mix-ins aside from the standard chocolate chips. Other great options include
- Pecans
- Coconut
- Oats
- Walnuts
Pumpkin and chocolate are the perfect flavor pairing, and these muffins are no exception. I make a batch of pumpkin chocolate chip muffins almost every week during the fall months. They’re even great to package up in cute boxes to give to friends, family and teachers for a welcome treat.
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips divided use
- cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Coat a 12 cup muffin tin with cooking spray, or you can use paper liners.
- Place the eggs, sugar, pumpkin puree and oil in a bowl. Whisk until smooth.
- Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla extract and salt to the bowl. Stir until just combined.
- Fold in 1 cup of chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter evenly among the 12 muffin cups and sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips over the tops of the muffins.
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean.
- Cool for 5 minutes in the pan, then transfer the muffins to a wire rack to cool completely.
- Serve, or store the muffins in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Rene says
Love these pumpkin chocolate chip muffins! Muffins are a favorite in my house. I usually stick to chocolate chip or blueberry but bought my first container of pumpkin pie spice. I know, crazy, right?! I told my nephew I was gonna try my hand at pumpkin muffins and he suggested pumpkin chocolate chip. So I did a Google search and found these amazingly, delicious muffins. Will be my go to from now on.
I used mini chocolate chips and still used the 1 1/2 cups that’s called for but cutting it down to a cup or even 3/4 cups would’ve probably been fine if using minis. I don’t mind the abundance of chocolate chips but just a suggestion incase anyone else is planning to use minis. Other than that, I woulsnt change a thing in this recipe. Just perfect.
Finny says
Hi! I’m wanting to double this recipe to use up the rest of my pumpkin puree, I’m justtt shy of 2 cups ( a little over 1 1/2). Do I need to make any other tweaks to the rest of the ingredients to finish this up?
Sara says
I have not tested the recipe with less pumpkin. My best guess is that you could substitute applesauce for the rest of the pumpkin but I’m not sure how it would turn out!
Alex says
I always double the recipe because the muffins are delicious and I don’t like having leftover pumpkin puree! I cannot eat eggs, so I always replace 2 of the 4 eggs with chia eggs (2 tablespoons chia seeds plus 6 tablespoons buttermilk or water) and the other 2 eggs are replaced with 2 mashed ripe bananas. The mashed ripe bananas replace the bit of missing pumpkin puree and also allow you to greatly reduce the sugar content. I reduce the sugar by half.
Alli says
Mine always take 25 minutes to bake. At 15 minutes they’re still raw in the middle.
Family favorite recipe!
GLORY says
These were the most moist and delicious muffins ever!! I also had to bake them for around 25 minutes, as 15 minutes was definitely not enough time. And now I am left with less than one cup of pumpkin puree but want to make another dozen – will try to fill in with either apple sauce or banana and maybe a touch more pumpkin pie spice. This recipe is definitely a keeper!!!
Michelle says
Just made these cause I had pumpkin left over and what is better than pumpkin muffins. So moist! I love it. I made 1.5 times the recipe and it was great. I added buttermilk cause I needed to use that too. So incredibly wonderfully pumpkin-y and moist, I sense no dryness at all thank you for this recipe.
Cheryl Anton says
Great recipe! I used 1 cup organic sunflower oil, 1/2 cup organic unsweetened applesauce and 1 cup Ghirardelli 60% choc chips. 1 pecan half was pressed on the top and they were scrumptious! Will definitely make them again only not too soon, cause my pants are getting tight 😂
Diane Winegar says
I love this recipe, and make it on a regular basis! My family loves it too!
Megan says
I have made this recipe several times and it is always delicious and comes out perfect. I like to put my chocolate chips just on top vs. mixing into the batter. In case you are trying to make the recipe just a tiny bit heathier, I did want to share that the last time I made the muffins I lowered the amount of oil to 1/2cup + ~1 Tbs water instead of the 3/4 cup oil and could not tell the difference!
Thanks for a great recipe!
Eliana d says
These are so delicious and easy! A wonderful fall treat for Sunday brunch
Madeleine says
Super yummy.