Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins
I know it’s only August, but I can’t help it, I’m ready for pumpkin! I actually use pumpkin year round, it’s a key ingredient in my chocolate bread recipe, which both my daughters love. While it has pumpkin, the pumpkin fades behind the chocolate flavor, and isn’t very noticeable (I use it for moisture and to replace some of the oil and butter often found in breads). I was getting ready to make a loaf of this bread the other day and decided that I really wanted to have some of the pumpkin flavor as well, and next thing you know, I’ve made marbled Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins.
These muffins started with my Dark Chocolate Pumpkin Bread recipe, which I doubled and tweaked a bit, adding more pumping, dividing up the batter before adding the cocoa powder, and adding spices to the pumpkin batter.
This recipe takes a few more minutes to make these than just straight up chocolate or straight up pumpkin muffins, but it’s also a really big batch, so you can freeze some and be set for breakfast for a while.
I made my version with white whole wheat flour, but you can use all purpose flour as well. It will certainly give you the ultimate bakery style version of these babies, but I have a serious love of white whole wheat flour in my breads and muffins.
24 Standard Size Muffins
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2/3 cups vanilla Greek yogurt
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 15 oz can of pumpkin (NOT pumpkin pie mix) this is about 1 1/2 cups pumpkin
- 4 eggs
- 2 2/3 cup white whole wheat flour
- 2/3 cup dark cocoa powder
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1-2 tsp cinnamon (depending on taste)
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1/3 cup buttermilk
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line or grease 24 muffin cups.
Combine butter and yogurt with electric mixer until completely combined. Mix in sugars and beat until fluffy. Add vanilla and pumpkin and mix until well combined. Add eggs and mix until well combined.
In a separate bowl, combine white whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Slowly mix into the wet ingredients.
Divide batter equally into two bowls.
Into one bowl add cocoa powder and buttermilk, and mix just until combined.
In the other bowl, add cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice.
Scoop a bit of each batter into each muffin cup (totaling about 2/3 of the way full with both batters combined). If desired use a knife to swirl together the chocolate and pumpkin.
Bake for 15-17 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
Remove from oven and allow to cool.
These freeze great for quick weekday breakfasts. I let mine cool completely, wrap in plastic wrap then place into a freezer bag.
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So good! If you can’t decide between pumpkin or chocolate, totally go for both!
Looking for more great breakfast recipes, that will even go over well with picky eater? I’ve put together a collection of the breakfast recipes I make for my kids, who are both very picky eaters. Most of these are recipes that can be made ahead and then just grab and go or pop into the microwave for those busy mornings.
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