Sometimes I get to the end of the day and realize that I didn’t eat ANY vegetables all day. Like, zero. Usually it’s a Monday and it’s the day after Easter.
Wait, are there vegetables in teriyaki buffalo chicken wings?
No? No.
Let me just preface this by saying I’m not proud of my vegetableless day. Eating vegetables makes me feel green, and green is cool. Remember Monday? I dunked vegetables in butter sauce and wrapped them in a croissant and topped the whole shebang with more butter. It was vegetables and it was yummy.
No, ok, for real. Sometimes I really do do the healthy vegetable thing. Like when I made a pizza crust out of cauliflower. That was… weirdly… delicious.
At this moment in my life, the only thing standing between me and a kale smoothie are these freshly baked Salted Double Chocolate Muffins. A beautifully puffy, lightly glazed rich chocolate muffin with a sprinkling of coarse sea salt. Is it just me or does that puffy muffin kinda make a kale smoothie look like garbage juice? Or maybe they always look that way.
IDK. Maybe in another life I’ll drink kale smoothies instead of eating my face’s worth of Salted Double Chocolate Muffins.
Then again, maybe I’ll just drink pure chocolate glaze and wash it down with salt.
Salted Double Chocolate Muffins
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 8 1x
Description
These salted double chocolate muffins have big puffy tops perfect for a little bit of sweet glaze and sea salt. Easy and delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 scant cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder (I used dark cocoa)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons strong coffee
- 3 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- sea salt
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Stir the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cocoa, and sugar in a large bowl.
- Pour the milk, coffee, oil, egg, and vanilla into the bowl. Mix the dry and wet ingredients together until just combined. Add the chocolate chips.
- Spoon into a prepared muffin tin, filling each cup about 3/4 full. Sprinkle 3-5 chocolate chips on the top of each muffin and bake for 15 minutes or until the muffins spring back when you touch the tops.
- Whisk the powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and milk together to make a smooth glaze. Add milk a teaspoon at a time if the glaze is still too thick (I usually go back and forth between powdered sugar and milk a few times to get the consistency just right). You want it to be pretty thick so that it sticks to the sides of the muffin.
- After muffins have cooled, drizzle with glaze and sprinkle with a pinch of coarse sea salt. Serve with a glass of milk!
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Category: Snack
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: double chocolate muffins, chocolate muffins, muffin recipe
I’ve had chocolate on my face for the last 3 days. Join me.
How do you store these? Room temperature, or fridge?
We’d suggest fridge. Enjoy!
I actually made this recipe and poured it into a loaf pan, sprinkled the chocolate chips on top before baking. Came out delightful!
Thanks for posting this recipe! I was amazed that my muffins turned out nice and lofty just like the picture (that never seems to happen…). Next time I think I might add a bit more cocoa powder to the batter just to get some even deeper chocolate flavor. I didn’t have powdered sugar so I melted some chocolate chips and thinned it out with coconut oil to have a drizzle for the sea salt. It was really tasty that way although I’m sure your way is delicious as well! Again, thanks for posting, I’ll be pinning this for future reference š
These were a total fail for me š I followed the recipe to a t and they turned out a weird light brown color with no chocolate flavor! Only 1 tbsp of cocoa powder? Is that right? I’m going to add some melted chocolate now and see where that gets me.
Question: The 2 Tblsp. of coffee called for in the recipe–I am guessing that that is coffee already made (like leftover coffee), not coffee grounds. Is that correct?
Yes, it was just leftover coffee. š
Do you think I could make this into a cake? They look delicious and I’m having a lot of people over for dinner so I think a big cake would be fun.
I think so! They were pretty puffy and cakey as-is… maybe try for a few smaller pans and make a layer cake!
I just made these this weekend because I couldn’t get them out of my mind, and they are seriously good. And I definitely had chocolate all over. Also, I genuinely love reading your blog. Even when it’s a recipe for Baked Spicy Fries (which I should NOT get near!) I read the post anyway because you have such a great sense of humor. Thanks for making me laugh š
Thanks so much! That made my day. š
These look so perfect, please send me one or maybe a dozen!!! Beautiful shots!!
Thanks Ambika! It’s easy to make chocolate look good. š
I’m brand new to your blog and really love the way you write. Very funny. And you already captured my attention, but when I see these muffins located in the “breakfast” section I know that I will now have to follow you and see what’s next. Also I will be making these and possibly eating them for breakfast.
Ha! I think you mean definitely eating them for breakfast.
1. As I was reading I kept expecting to have you secretly sneak the veggies into the chocolate muffins like you sometimes do in other recipes.
2. I have never heard of the salt and chocolate thing… I will HAVE to try!
3. As always, Love your site!
Not this time, Mel. Hope you weren’t disappointed. š And you MUST get yourself some salted chocolate ASAP!
I’m with you on the occasional lack of veggies, although for me it seems to be the hardest to work in fruits. It takes a conscious effort sometimes to remember to throw some strawberries on top of my cereal. Especially when there are gorgeous things like chocolatey muffins in the world. Who wouldn’t want to eat those instead? Yummy!!
Seriously. Distractions, I tell you.
Ummm, these look really yummy! Like addictive yummy. Veggies are over-rated anyway.
They are totally addictive. I ate like 3 in a row for dinner.
I am instantly drawn to anything with chocolate and salt in the same phrase. These look delightful!
Thanks Mercedes!
To the person who would take a kale smoothie over this, I say: More. For. Me.
I laughed out loud at this. You’re funny. š
First things first – where did you get these terriyaki buffalo wings?! That sounds like an incredibly combination.
Secondly, I’m totally with you on the veggie intake. Sometimes other things get priorities, like cake.
Thirdly, this cake looks fantastically-beautifuly-wonderfully gorgeous. And so inviting with that glaze.
Buffalo Wild Wings. Real classy. š
ok sooooo i just drooled on my keyboard. DOUBLE chocolate? salted?? sweet & salty is my weakness. yum yum yum yum! amazing recipe & photos Lindsay!!
Thanks Sally!
I just found your blog and I want to read every.single.post. SO much wonderful information from the recipes to the income reports and photography tips. Looking forward to getting lost on here for a while!
Aw that’s sweet! Glad you are liking the site! š
Whoa, these are beautiful!! And so much more impressive than the average muffin. I’m drooling š