Chocolate chip muffin!
A bakery chocolate chip muffin: a craggy domed top, dark chocolate chunks and a soft, buttery crumb.
A simple afternoon snack: a chocolate chip muffin grabbed from a neighbourhood bakery on the way home. 🧁😋
What we had:
- Chocolate chip muffin
A good chocolate chip muffin is surprisingly hard to find, since most are either over-baked into dry domes or stingy with the chocolate. This one got it right. It had the proper architecture: a craggy, domed muffin top, golden-brown with dark chocolate chunks poking out, in the usual fluted paper case.
The crumb inside was the real test, and it passed, soft and moist with that buttery richness you get from a proper butter-and-egg recipe rather than a cheap oil-based one. The chocolate chunks were dark rather than over-sweet milk chips, and scattered all the way through, not just clustered on top, with a few melted into the surface leaving little glossy streaks.
Best of all, it was not too sweet. You could actually taste the butter and vanilla underneath the chocolate, instead of it reading as just a sweet sponge. The domed top had that lovely slightly crisp edge giving way to the softer middle.
A small, honest bakery win, the kind of unfussy treat that hits the spot with a coffee.
Overall: 4.3 / 5. 😋👍🏼 A craggy-topped muffin with dark chocolate chunks and a soft, buttery, not-too-sweet crumb. Would re-buy.
