Eggless chocolate chip muffins with vanilla sponge. Perfect for beginners, a no fail recipe, with step by step images.

Perfect for breakfast with a bowl of cereal or tea time snack as well as for kid's snack box.
Check out my Chocolate muffins and eggless orange cake in my website, which are easy, also turns out perfect.
I had chocolate chip muffins once in Phuket and then now recently in Bali when we ordered for the continental breakfast.
Otherwise not a big fan of it to buy it and eat in usual days. But after making choco chip cookies, I had some chocolate chips remaining.
So wanted to make muffins out of it. And still I do have, will make hot chocolate and enjoy as well as empty the choco chips😊.
Aj being allergic to cocoa, these muffins are only for me, me only 😚. The recipe is adapted from Divya's vanilla sponge cake.
Ingredients
- Chocolate chips - I used Hershey's mini semi sweet chocolate chips.
- All purpose flour - Plain flour or Maida as we know in India. You can also use wheat flour in place of it, but the texture turns dense.
- Baking powder & Baking soda - Make sure these are fresh in stock. Otherwise it may give weird smell.
- Yogurt - Plain yogurt store bought or homemade curd works too. This is main for the baking powder and baking soda to react with in any eggless baking.
- Corn flour - In India, we call this as corn flour. In some parts of world it is called corn starch. It is white in colour, NOT yellow.
- Oil - Use neutral flavor oil like sunflower or vegetable. You can use melt butter in place of oil, but the texture can turn brittle or dry. Suggest to mix 50-50 in that case.
My notes
- Please read the above before baking. There is no skipping any of the ingredient as this is eggless version and all the ingredients are required for spongy and soft texture.
- Usually the baking temperature and preheat temperature is same. Some ovens give you indication when the set temperature is reached. Few models, don't. So, take preheat time as 15 minutes.
Storage & Shelf life
Eggless muffins stays good at room temperature itself (Keep covered, not airtight, just cover it with a lid over stand). Just make sure it is completely cooled down over wire rack before covering.
You can refrigerate and store upto 10 days. Cling wrap individually and you can microwave for few seconds to warm it before serving.
Ingredients
- Preheat oven at 180 deg. C. Sieve all purpose flour and corn flour twice to ensure even mixing.
- In a mixing bowl, mix well the curd and sugar to dissolve it.
- Add baking powder and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and mix well and set aside for 2 minutes.
- The mix will become slightly frothy with small bubbles. Now mix in vanilla and oil.
- Then add 1 tablespoon of the flour at a time until you finish all the flour to get the batter.
- Mix chocolate chip with 2 teaspoon of flour to coat it and add it to the batter, give a gentle mix with a spatula.
- Line a muffin tray with muffin liners and spoon the batter ¾th in each muffin liner. Top with few more chocolate chips if you like.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until the toothpick inserted comes out clean. Carefully take out from the muffin tray and cool down over a wire rack.
Enjoy the delicious classic chocolate chip Muffins! Tastes best the next day 😉
Recipe card
Eggless chocolate chip muffins
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup All purpose flour Refer steps & notes - Important
- 3 tablespoon Corn flour
- ½ cup Chocolate chips
- ¾ cup Sugar
- ½ cup Oil
- 1 cup Yogurt curd
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Sodium bicarbonate
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 180 C deg firstly. (15 mins)
- Secondly, measure all purpose flour and take out 3 tablespoon from it. Then add 3 tablespoon corn flour to it. Basically we are taking out 3 tablespoon all purpose flour and replacing it with corn flour.
- Sieve all purpose flour and corn flour twice to ensure even mixing.
- In a mixing bowl, mix well yogurt (curd) and sugar to dissolve it.
- Add baking powder and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) and mix well. Set aside for 2 minutes.
- The mix will become slightly frothy with small bubbles. Now mix in vanilla and oil.
- Then add 1 tablespoon of the flour at a time until you finish all the flour to get the batter.
- Mix chocolate chip with 2 teaspoon of flour to coat it and add it to the batter, give a gentle mix with a spatula. (You can use the same flour from your mixing bowl)
- Line a muffin tray with muffin liners and spoon the batter ¾th in each muffin liner.
- Top with few more chocolate chips if you like.
- Bake for 18-20 minutes or until the toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Carefully take out from the muffin tray and cool down over a wire rack.
Notes
- I used my hand whisk for mixing the batter.
- Use only the spatula to just mix the choco chip gently in the batter. Do not over mix.
- I used semi sweet choco chips, the muffins were a bit on sweeter side for me. You can add a pinch of salt to avoid flat taste.
Nagalakshmi V
i still can't believe aj is allergic to cocoa. let me know if you need help finishing these 😀
RAKS KITCHEN
😀
APARNARAJESHKUMAR
i still see lots of choc's expecting more recipes ! pictures are A class
Valarmathi Sanjeev
Muffins looks cute and yummy, liked the click too.
Lavi Raj
Oh..I love this new template. so clean and love the filter coffee header! U Rock!
muffins looks perfect! Nice eggless recipe!
Hamaree Rasoi
ultimate beauty !! gorgeous looking muffins
Veena Theagarajan
allergic to cocoa? I can help you too.. Gorgeous muffin super shots.. Looks so yummy
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Priya
Feel like joining you Raji,just to finish these cuties..
sowmya(creative saga)
Love cookies as well as muffins with choco chips..looks yumm..
avanti
hey looks like i have found the prefect recepie ... but can i skip curds and add milk ?
Divya Kudua
Love it,can have it with a glass of cold milk and be very happy about it:)
Jeyashrisuresh
Me too will join
Jeyashrisuresh
I can eat this anytime. Fantastic muffins and beautiful clicks.
Priti S
Looks fab and yum ...I wish to have some now
ShravsCookBookBlog
I like muffins a lot and choclate chips in it yummy.....
Shama Nagarajan
Super yummy... .
Ongoing event:
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in my blog.
Sowmya D.S.L
Looks YUMMY!! I love muffins a lot too..
Meena Selvakumaran
Your clicks are amazing ,love the chocolate muffins.
Sangeetha
delicious and our fav muffins, thanks for this eggless version...like all your pics, fantastic !
Leena
Delicious muffins..fabulous clicks
divya
Wowwwwwwww.. looks absolutely perfect and inviting.. awesome clicks too 🙂
Laavanya
Muffins look fabulous! Sorry to hear your son can't have them....
Sushma Madhuchandra
those muffins look yum! You sure added 1/2 tsp of oil only? That would be quite healthy one too 🙂
Amina
wow... delicious looking muffins... bookmarked...
Sudha Sabarish
Me too not a big fan of choco but still pics are tempting.
RAKS KITCHEN
Nope actually typo 😛 Edited now! Thanks for asking.
Nagashree
Delicious and cute, perfectly baked muffins!
Anu
Perfectly baked, clicks make tempting.......
Nagu Subbu
Have a craving for choco chip muffins!!! Nice muffins 🙂
Sangeetha Nambi
Fabulous...
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Dipti Joshi
I love the clicks. I simply make choco chips pound cake to finish the stock. Here is the recipe. http://dipsdiner.com/dd/?p=287
Aruna Manikandan
muffins look delectable and love the clicks raji 🙂
Kalpana Sareesh
they look simply yumm. will sure try it soon..
Archana Potdar
Yum! you need help to finish these?
Sanoli Ghosh
Fabulous and gorgeous looking muffins.
today's recipe:
http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.in/2013/01/vadakari-snc-challenge-4.html
dishesfrommykitchen
Lovely lovely looking muffins Raji.
Premalatha Aravindhan
wow cute luking muffins,clicks are too gud as usual:)
Nagalakshmi V
😀 😀
Harini
Wow drooling over them rite now! Yummy 🙂
Vanamala Hebbar
wow yummmy ....
Jay
lovely recipe
lata raja
How sad is that! These lovely looking muffins and Aj cannot have them 🙁
I do not like choco chips so I will take solidarity with the poor chap! Nice muffins Raji.
Apu
Delicious - they look great!
KS
Hi Raks,
As usual you rock!
I have one question to you( I always have this in my mind) .do you use vanilla essence or vanilla extract?
KS
Hi Raks,
As usual you rock!
I have one question to you( I always have this in my mind) .do you use vanilla essence or vanilla extract?
RAKS KITCHEN
I use vanilla essence only.
sush pennin(g) thoughts
hey rak's i have a silly doubt..
Do you use yellow corn flour or white corn flour(corn starch) ?
Nivedhanams Sowmya
perfectly made!!! so tempting and so delicious!!! bookmarking this raji!!!
Sowmya
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Janani
My favourite chip muffin they r wonderful right.
sanjeeta kk
Allergic to cocoa..a lucky lady you are Raji.. enjoy your treat!
Sharmilee! :)
Oh my...gorgeous looking muffins, they looks truely tempting!!
Rita Bose
Chocolate chip muffins look divine! The snaps are tempting me! Thanx for sharing the recipe!
themustardseed
I have been looking for an eggless muffin recipe! Thank you so much! And these look so moist and delicious!
Rafeeda A. Raheem
beautiful muffins... to be tried soon... 🙂
RAKS KITCHEN
White corn flour (starch)
divya
hi...ur receipe is very interesting and easy for beginners ....i recently learnt to bake so i wd luv to try this muffins...i require some help...
1...u used hand whisker is it fine with hand whisking or shd we try out hand mixer..
2...i ve silicon heart shaped 6 moulds can i pour directly as i dont ve heart liners....or do i ry out in aluminium cups with liners
3...silicon mould also has the same baing temp
4...silly doubt...what is frosting in cakes as well as fondant
thx a ton...pls reply to me ....
Divya ([email protected])
Anonymous
Lovely recipe and nice clicks...
RAKS KITCHEN
Will try that 🙂 Already have one with coco powder here https://rakskitchen.net/hot-chocolate-recipe-microwave-single-serving/
pepper bowl
Finish of the remaining choco chips for hot chocolate...Waiting for that interesting recipe too..
RAKS KITCHEN
You can use hand mixer, but do not over mix.
You can directly pour in a silicon mould, no need to line it.
same temperature as well.
frosting is something creamy and fondant is something that will be smooth, stiffer and soft finish.I too am a beginner, so have less exposure to the baking terms 🙂
Babooty
Madam,
By reading your different posts i am also fall in luv with cooking(no doubt my son & wife are my test rats ). I would like to buy a OTG for learning baking
can u suggest a size ( capacity)
Babooty
Madam,
After reading your different posts i am also fall in luv with cooking. I would like to buy a OTG for learning baking.Can u suggest a size( size)
Raks anand
Hi, not sure about the size, mine is 700W , any oven above 18 L will be okay for baking.
rama vardhini
Hi, I am a regular follower of your posts. I have some clarification. Can you please tell me which kind of oven you have? Convection/grilled/just microwave mode alone? I see ur trays are non stick with metal coated. Can I use these in microwave mode? or if I should use in convection mode whats the temperature needed for baking as mentioned in your posts? Please kindly reply.
FYI... I have Samsung 32 L Convection mode oven
Thanks,
VardhiniVenkat
Raks anand
I too have a combination oven, that has microwave mode, convection mode, grill mode and a combination mode. I never change that tray. So if yours also is a combination oven which has convection mode, follow the same temperature and method.
GeethuSathiyaN
Dear Raks,planning do tis with eggs...how many eggs i shld add for this measurement?shld i skip any other ingredients if i add eggs?can i save it for 3 or 4 days?(planning to do it in bulk)
Raks anand
Sorry no idea...
pratimabora
Which oil should be used here?
Sandy
Thanks for the wonderful and simple recipe. Have received quite a few complements for the cupcakes I made using the same recipe!!
Deepa
Raks... I have been following ur blog for a while now and I should say I am more than impressed with the variety of recipes u have posted... I baked 2 dozens of the eggless choc chip muffins... They were moist and perfect... My son was so proud to share them with his friends and kept saying that they were home made from scratch 🙂 thanks again... u r amazing (btw I have confessed to my son that I steal recipes from ur website)
Subhra Subhadra
Tried this recipe today...came out really well...everybody loved it...thanks for such a simple hassle free recipe...looking forward to more eggless baking recipes...
Ketaki
Hi
These muffins looks so delicious and perfect. I would like to try on this coming weekend. Can I use Maida instead of All Purpose flour ? Does it make any difference to this recipe? Kindly reply me ASAP
Raks anand
Both are same so proceed
Ketaki
What is the exact measurement of All purpose flour since it's mentioned 'minus 3 tbsp'?..What does it mean exactly....Kindly guide me since I want to make proper muffins for my son's Birthday party at school:-)..Sorry to troubling you a lot!
Raks anand
Measure first 1 & 1/2 cups of flour, take out 3 tblsp of flour from it and add 3 tblsp corn flour to it. The idea is to replace with corn flour.
Ketaki
Thanks you sooooooo much for entertaining my quries......well, cupcakes turned out awsome and it has been finished within a seocnd:-)...Thanks you so much for simple and easy recipies. I tried Eggless chocalate cake as well..and it was totaly spongy and delicious. I'm big fan of yours and spreading the word:-)....I'm your follower already!
nidhi
Hi Raks! Thanks a lot for the AWSOMEEE recipe... the muffins turned out just perrfect and my family loved it! especially coz it was eggless and yet just perfectly soft..
This was the first time I tried baking and was amazed to see how perfect it turned out coz i followed your instructions to the T... Loved ur idea of posting step by step pics as its very helpful in understanding ... plz keep posting more recipes.. <3
Mona Joshi
Hi I tried out these nd it came out so well n taste superb. But would like to share something escp for beginner here it was mentioned 18 to 20 mins at 180'c. I have ifb 20l 800w microwave mine came out in just 10mins nd the second batch in 5 mins. So pls keep watching as it bakes so that it doesn't get burnt. The size nd watt does matter according to me.
sudha sujithkumar
Hi... can curd be replaced with anything else like milk or butter..? As my daughter just hates the smell of curds she would not touch these if curd was added... I tried making your eggless choc muffins and they turned out great...big success on my first attempt. ..please do reply as this was asked earlier by someone else as well
Raks anand
As this is eggless cake recipe, curd cannot be replaced, but you will not even know the smell of curd in this, you can try and see.
viji
today i tried this recipe..... so delicious .... thanks Raks. I tried ur makkan peda recipe also for this diwali. soooooper.
Divya Ranga
Are the cups as in US std measuring cups? If so we kcan convert to grms. Reply pls.... we re keen bakers but new to egg less cakes.
getzica kandaswamy
hi, I tried this..it came out well. stored it in a plastic containers the same night and next day morning it top surface became a bit moist n sticky...is this expected?
Raks anand
Yes, it happens. You can dust with icing sugar if you want to cover it up. Next time, you can avoid closing tightly and let them breath a little. And even if it is sticky initially, it will again absorb the moisture and become soft.
Raks Kitchen
Melt same amount of butter (1/2 cup) just to liquify butter and in the recipe. Texture can be more crumbly if you use butter. You can also try 50 50 butter plus oil.
hk
Can we replace butter for oil.how can we use