This recipe is one of our longtime family favorites. These muffins are so good and freeze so well.
These also make a great dessert to add to a sack lunch. Just pull a frozen muffin out and stick it in a baggie in your sack lunch and by lunchtime, it’s all thawed and ready to eat.
If you want to try a bit of a different and healthier twist, The Frugal Girl remade this recipe using sweet potatoes, whole-wheat flour, and less oil.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups sugar or raw sugar (can be reduced)
- 1 (16 oz.) can pureed pumpkin (or two cups cooked and pureed fresh pumpkin)
- 1 1/2 cups oil (vegetable, Canola, or olive)
- 3 cups flour (whole-wheat, white, or any combination of both)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-2 cups chocolate chips
In a large mixing bowl, beat eggs, sugar, pumpkin, and oil until smooth. Add in dry ingredients and mix well. Fold in chocolate chips. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups 3/4 full. Bake 16-20 minutes at 400 degrees.
To freeze: Thoroughly cool muffins and stick in an airtight freezer bag and freeze for up to 6 weeks.
To thaw: Let muffins thaw at room temperature for 30 minutes to an hour. Or, defrost individually for 1-2 minutes in the microwave.
Makes 24-30 muffins.
Did you do any freezer cooking today? If so, I’d love to see the results of your efforts! Link up your blog posts below or tell us about your success in the comments.
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I’ve made these many times for our family. I like to freeze them too. We all love them!
Or eat them frozen! They’re especially good that way in the summer
Are these moist amd sweet? They sound lovely, but my kids are picky…
yes and very yummy!
Yep. I’d recommend using canola or vegetable oil in them as that makes them especially moist and sweet.
My husband would love that!
Mine too! Maybe if I had muffins in the freezer he would eat breakfast on a regular basis…
Kristen, we have the opposite problem. My husband is a big man that works outside and it’s like he can’t get enough breakfast. And he is picky!
We love these! I replace half of the oil with applesauce and that works well.
Any thoughts on if I could substitute all the oil with applesauce? I would love to use less oil, but don’t want to lose the moistness.
There is a light version of these on food.com. That is the recipe that I usually work off of. I think it says you can replace all of the oil with applesauce but I’ve never tried it. But I have taken the remaining half oil and done a partial flax seed substitution. I bet you could easily reduce the oil to 1/3 oil vs. 2/3 applesauce or 1/4 oil vs. applesauce and they would still be good. The pumpkin keeps them moist, too. Sometimes if I want try changes like that I start with something less conservative like half and half and gradually replace more. Good luck!
Does anybody know if the same recipe will work if I want to make bread instead of muffins?
I’ve never tried it, but I make muffins with things that are supposed to be bread (banana or pumpkin bread) and have no problems. It would probably work the other way around.
I have had good results using other muffin recipes for bread (and vice versa). This recipe should work as well. You would need to bake it at a lower temperature. 25 degrees lower usually works for me. Good luck!
They look delicious!!!
Oh I wish canned pumpkin were on sale all year! $1.79 per can at the grocery store this time of year. Next Thanksgiving I am buying 50 cans. We ran out of 5 cans in less than a month making:
Pumpkin Oatmeal –
http://whisktogether.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/baked-pumpkin-oatmeal/
Pumpkin Pancakes-
http://whisktogether.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/100-whole-wheat-pumpkin-pancakes/
I made these for the first time. We all liked them very well. Even my husband who won’t eat any kind of squash at all liked these. Thanks for the great recipe.
These are wonderful!!!
I love this recipe, but also like to make pumpkin spice muffins, too. It’s a spice cake mix and a 15 oz can of pumpkin. No oil, eggs or other ingredients. You could still add the chocolate chips if you wanted, and they are really moist and yummy. I haven’t made enough to try freezing yet, they go too fast!
..wondering if I have pumpkin…
They look really REALLY good! Bet my dh would love them with nuts
These look like something my daughter and I would love!
These look really good, and I still have a ton of pumpkin in my freezer from last year.
I have a lot of oregano in my garden right now so I made 4 batches of oregano chicken for the freezer.
This weekend I plan on making a bunch of oregano pesto as well (If I can get rid of this cold).
Even though I love chocolate, would the recipe be just the same without adding the chocolate chips? Thanks for posting it!
Yes, it’s still yummy without the chocolate chips!
Yes, My husband doesn’t like chocolate (weird I know) and he liked them very much . I just made them last week and added the chips (less than a whole package) after I poured a few in the pan for him.
These muffins are delicious! I’ve made these several times over the past year. I usually reduce the sugar by 1/2 cup and can’t tell the difference.
I usually reduce eggs to two , sub half oil for applesauce, and use far less sugar and these are STILL one of the best muffin recipes I have ever tried! Thanks for sharing!!
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I have a recipe very similar to this that I found online over 15 years ago! Over the years, I’ve made frequent adjustments to make it healthier. I only use 2 eggs & use a flaxseed/water combo to replace the other 2. I use 1/2 c. melted butter & 1/2 c. applesauce for the oil. The sugar has been cut down to 1-1/4 c. and no one can tell a difference in the sweetness. I’m currently using a combination of whole wheat & white whole wheat flour. I use mini choc. chips and just 3/4 c.; the minis make it look like there are more plus stretch my supply of choc. chips!
I can usually get 24 big muffins & 24 mini-muffins out of one batch.
These have been gradual changes over the years. My version looks nothing like the original I found all those years ago (which also had sliced almonds–never used those!). I just made a batch this morning. Some will be eaten for breakfast & the rest will go into the freezer.
Our family loves these muffins. I have made them several times and everytime we take the last one out of the freezer the kids ask when can we make more! Plus they are so easy the kids always like to come in and help. Like others have said I replace at least half of the oil with applesauce and I always use olive oil in mine and they still come out super moist. Thanks for the great recipe.
I’m not a big fan of chocolate (yes, I’m weird!) so I substitute the chocolate chips with raisins. I also substitute half the oil with applesause and half with melted coconut oil, along with reducing the sugar. They’re still moist and freeze great!
This series has been all the motivation I need! Thanks so much Crystal as my due date is the beginning of July and now I have ham and cheese pockets, southwest burritos, brown bag burritos and pizza pockets made for lunch. Yesterday I made quinoa chocolate chip muffins and I already have a nice stash of breakfast foods. Finally, your chicken tetrazinni, BBQ meatballs and a few other meals are in the freezer for dinner as well.
I’m due August 1 and I have GOT to get freezer cooking! I am a teacher, and I just got out of school last Wednesday. I took Thursday and Friday off for myself. This week I focused on cleaning house. Next week I will tackle freezer cooking. So happy to finally be off work, but I’m getting nervous about how quickly the weeks are flying by! Good luck with your little one!
Did you use full size chocolate chips? They appear to be the mini ones in the picture. Thanks!
Either kind works well.
I make these quite often to keep in the freezer. Like some others have posted, we use applesauce in place of the oil and only 1 cup of sugar. They are still wonderful! I also use mini chocolate chips because they seem to disperse better throughout the muffins and you get chocolate in every bite!
I have been making these for as long as Crystal has have had them on her website (3 yrs maybe). The best muffins hands down! We eat them about once a week for breakfast. Last year I started playing with the recipe. I now make them with 3/4 cup of oil and 1 cup of natural apple sauce (not homemade). I also add 1 T of pumpkin spice and 1 T of cinnamon. I think mini chocolate chips work better.
Can you use coconut oil for the oil???
These are some of my favorite muffins! I love them with mini chocolate chips
And warmed with butter. oink! 
Just made these yesterday! We love them here! I use organic spelt flour and this time I used about 3/4 cup of coconut sugar (replaced 3/4 cup of the white). Despite freezing some, they usually only last 2 weeks top in our house! Thank you!
I use 2 cups of whole wheat flour and 1 cup of oatmeal. The oatmeal blends right in and you can’t even taste or see it.
My family loves these muffins, but I make them with butterscotch chips instead of chocolate chips. Don’t get me wrong, we love chocolate around here, but there’s something about the pumpkin and the butterscotch chips that work so well together. One time I made a batch and put chocolate chips in half of the muffins and butterscotch in the other half and the butterscotch muffins were a much bigger hit.
Should you use all-purpose or self-rising flour?
All purpose.
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