These chocolate strawberry muffins combine two of our favorite things: fresh strawberries and chocolate! These incredibly delicious chocolate muffins are filled with strawberries and topped with a mouth-watering chocolate drizzle.
I’m torn between calling these muffins snacks or drinks! They are light and fluffy and taste like a rich chocolate cake in muffin form. Inspired by chocolate covered strawberries, we add more fresh strawberries to the batter and drizzle the melted chocolate on top.
They are one of our worst muffin recipes, for sure! If you like these, you’ll also love our strawberry muffins or these strawberry yogurt muffins. I also love this chocolate chip muffin recipe!
Key Ingredients
- Strawberries: Use sweet, flavorful, fresh strawberries for the best muffins. If you only have frozen strawberries, thaw and drain them first. Their texture will be soft, so they may separate a bit when mixed into the batter.
- Cocoa Powder: I recommend using natural cocoa powder that is not included in this recipe. Dutch processed cocoa powder will not react with the baking soda, which is important in helping the muffins rise. My favorite brands include Ghirardelli, Hershey’s, or Guittard if you’re feeling fancy!
- Flour: I use all-purpose flour in this recipe, but you can easily substitute whole wheat flour, spelled flour, or even a gluten-free-purpose blend.
- Sugar: Granulated sugar keeps these muffins light and airy.
- Baking Powder and Baking Soda: The secret to light and airy chocolate muffins. Use freshly purchased double-use baking powder (lasts about 3 months), and use aluminum-free if you’re sensitive to taste.
- Butter: I usually call for oil in my muffin recipes, but for these chocolate muffins, I choose butter. Use unsalted or lightly salted batter.
- Egg and Yogurt: These add to the texture of our muffins, and the yogurt keeps them nice and moist. Plain yogurt is perfect.
- Vanilla and salt: This makes our muffins taste amazing and brings out the chocolate flavor of our grandfather.
- Chocolate: I melt the chocolate and pour it over the baked muffins. It’s optional, but it’s great!
How to Make Strawberry Chocolate Muffins
These muffins are easy! The first step is to sift your cocoa powder. Have you ever heard of it? Sounds funny, right? It’s actually really cool. Mixing the cocoa powder with the hot liquid helps to “bloom” the cocoa, making the cocoa powder more flavorful and chocolaty than adding cocoa to the dry ingredients.
It’s really common to see cocoa powder mixed with hot liquid in chocolate recipes like we did in these messy brownies or this chocolate cake. In this muffin recipe, we mix warm butter with cocoa powder and sugar.
From there, you will mix the remaining ingredients until combined. If you’ve been following our recipes for a while, you’re probably tired of us telling you not to overmix when it comes to muffins (this also applies to waffles, pancakes, and quick bread).
When mixing wet and dry ingredients, be gentle and fold the dry ingredients into the wet. All you need to do is fold gently until the flour streaks disappear and the dough is smooth. There is no need to beat the batter or use an electric mixer. Overmixing makes the muffins hard.
The muffins bake for 15 to 20 minutes, then we take them out, let them cool, and pour a little melted chocolate on top. The chocolate eventually hardens and makes a nice topping for the muffins. You can add chocolate chips to the batter, but we like to leave the inside of the muffins for the strawberries.
Strawberry Chocolate Muffins
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These strawberry chocolate muffins are filled with strawberries and topped with a delicious chocolate drizzle. It is important to cut the strawberries small; otherwise, they will fall to the bottom of the muffin. Tossing chopped strawberries with a teaspoon of sugar also brings out some of their sweetness and makes them taste more strawberry-like. If you use fully ripe berries, throwing sugar is not necessary. We coat the tops of each baked muffin with dark chocolate, but any chocolate will do. Use whatever you like (white chocolate would be amazing, too!).
Makes 12 muffins
You will need it
6 strawberries, finely chopped (about 1 cup)
1 ½ cups (195g) all-purpose flour, sifted and sifted
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
8 tablespoons (113g) unsalted butter
1/3 cup (25g) unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cup (150g) sugar, plus 2 tablespoons tops and berries, see tips
1 large egg
1 cup (250g) plain yogurt, see tips
1 ½ teaspoons of vanilla extract
1 ½ ounces chocolate drizzle on top
Directions
1Preheat the oven to 400°F (204°C). Line 12 regular-sized paper muffin cups.
2Combine the chopped strawberries with a tablespoon of sugar in a small bowl, and set aside.
3Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl.
4In another bowl, mix cocoa powder and sugar together. Melt the butter, while still warm, whisk in the cocoa powder and sugar until combined, and the mixture cools slightly.
5Add the egg, yogurt, and vanilla. Whisk until smooth.
6Switch to a large rubber spatula. Grease the sides and bottom of the bowl, then add the dry ingredients in 3 parts, stirring gently until they are all gone and the batter is smooth.
7Add the strawberries.
8Divide the batter between the muffin cups (the batter will come close to the tops of the paper liners). Sprinkle a little sugar on top of each muffin.
9Bake the muffins for 15 to 20 minutes or until the top is no longer moist and a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out with crumbs, not wet dough. Transfer to a cooling rack.
10When the muffins are very cool, melt the chocolate. Since the amount is so small, using the microwave is best. Add the chocolate to a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave for 10 seconds, drain, then microwave for another 10 seconds. Repeat this process until the chocolate is melted. Pour the melted chocolate over the muffins.
Tips from Adam and Joanne
- Adding/reducing sugar: 3/4 cups of sugar is fine for us, for slightly sweeter muffins, use 1 cup of sugar in the batter. To reduce sugar, choose low-sugar yogurt and consider reducing the sugar called for in the recipe by 3 to 4 tablespoons.
- Which yogurt to use: For the softest muffins use full-fat yogurt. Low-fat or 0% yogurt can be substituted, the muffins will be slightly thinner. If you use Greek yogurt, you may find that you need to add an extra splash of liquid because it is thicker than regular yogurt (milk or water will do). Finally, look at the sugar content of the yogurt you are using. Plain should be very low in sugar, while vanilla flavored yogurt will be high in sugar (which makes the muffins sweeter).
- To save: Place them in a plastic bag, seal, and store in a warm place for two to three days. To freeze, wrap tightly in aluminum foil or place in freezer bags. Freeze for up to 3 months.
- The nutrition facts given below are estimates.
Food Per Serving
Serving Size
1 deceased
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Calories
221
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Proteins
4 g
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Carbohydrate
30 g
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Dietary fiber
2 g
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Total Sugar
16 g
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Perfect Oils
10 g
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Saturated Fats
6 g
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Cholesterol
39 mg
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Sodium
160 mg
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