Costco is evil. I walk in there with a list of 10 things and come out with 32 instead. One of the things I always walk out with is a tray of their jumbo muffins. I looooove them.
But alas, my Costco is over an hour away (yes, we drive that far to go to one — it’s that good) and I’ve been looking for a recipe that fills my craving in between trips.
Well, I found a good recipe. Now, you don’t have to make these jumbo — you can make them normal cupcake-size if you want. But they’re much more fun super-sized and 10 times more indulgent. 🙂
Jumbo Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- 3 cups flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup buttermilk or milk I use buttermilk
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- coarse sugar for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees and line a 6- jumbo muffin tin with paper liners. With a mixer beat together eggs and sugar until light yellow in color – about 3-4 minutes. Mix in the milk, oil, and vanilla, and beat until well combined. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- Reserve about one tablespoon of flour mixture in a small bowl, and add the rest of the flour mixture to the wet ingredients. Mix until just starting to combine with the mixer – there will still be clumps of flour – and finish mixing the batter by hand until just combined. It will be lumpy and you will see a few sprays of flour. Add chocolate chips to the reserved flour mixture and toss so the chocolate chips are coated with flour. Add chips to batter and gently fold.
- Pour batter into tins, pouring batter all the way to the top of each tin (seriously, to the top). Sprinkle with sugar and bake for 5 minutes, then reduce temperature to 375 and bake for 22-28 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
Notes
If you are baking muffins in a regular-sized pan, reduce cooking time by about 10 minutes. Check them early!
Adapted from Rachel Ray
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