These super soft White Chocolate Muffins are perfect for dessert or breakfast. Just 9 ingredients and 10 minutes prep time. Soft, rich, and moist. By the way, have you tried my banana walnut muffins yet?
Why the heck is white chocolate not as popular as milk or even dark chocolate?
I have to say that I love white chocolate. I mean, I love every kind of chocolate, but white chocolate is very special.
Mario doesn't love white chocolate as much as I do. Funny is that I recently saw on TV that men prefer white chocolate and woman dark or milk chocolate. This is definitely not true for us. He likes white chocolate, but he is not super thrilled when I say "this week, I bake white chocolate anything." Until now...
With this White Chocolate Muffins recipe, he is now converted to us white chocolate lovers. Woohoo.
How should a perfect muffin be? Soft, rich, and moist.
And to get super soft, rich, and moist White Chocolate Muffins, I increased the amount of oil in the batter. The batter is thick enough that the white chocolate chunks don't sink up and as liquid as possible to get a lighter texture at the end. The texture is in-between a cupcake and a muffin.
I didn’t just add white chocolate chunks to the muffins. To get the ultimate white chocolate taste, it was clear that I need to add white chocolate to the muffins batter itself.
After experimenting a few times, I ended up with adding 3 tablespoon of grated white chocolate. The texture was much better than with adding melted white chocolate. I grated the chocolate like parmesan.
 
These White Chocolate Muffins are
- actually Double White Chocolate Muffins because we have chocolate in the batter and additional chocolate chunks
- super soft, moist, and rich
- extremely easy and quick to make
- perfect for dessert or breakfast
You may also like White Chocolate Cupcakes, Double Chocolate Muffins, Chocolate Banana Muffins, Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins, or Air Fryer Muffins.
White Chocolate Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups flour (270g)
- ¾ cup granulated white sugar (150g)
- 3 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 cup buttermilk (240ml)
- ½ cup vegetable oil (120ml)
- 2 vanilla beans* (or 2 teaspoon vanilla extract)
- 3 tablespoon white chocolate, grated (13g)
- 1 cup white chocolate chips (or chopped chocolate chunks) (160g)
Additional white chocolate chips for sprinkling on top (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425°F (220°C). Line a 12 muffin pan with muffin liners. Set aside.
- In a large bowl sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Stir to combine. Set aside.
- In another large bowl whisk egg, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla* just until combined. Add dry ingredients and stir to combine. Fold in grated white chocolate and white chocolate chips. Divide batter into muffin liners and sprinkle a few additional chocolate chips on top. Fill liners almost full. You will get about 12 muffins. Bake for 5 minutes at 425°F (220°C) then lower the temperature to 350°F (175°C) and bake additional 15-17 minutes or until a toothpick in the center comes out clean. Let cool to room temperature. Store leftovers at room temperature up to 3 days.
Notes
Video
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Daniel
Turned out great 🙂
Annette
I used MilkyBar as its my favourite white chocolate n love this recipe. Thank you so much. My muffins turned out really nice. I Love how the grated chocolate makes you taste the chocolate all thw the way through the muffin n they was nice and light. Definitely keeping this recipe and baking them again. Thanks again.
Sabine
Thank you so much! Yes, the grated chocolate makes all the difference. I'm glad you liked it.
Annelise
This recipe came out perfect and so delicious! I followed it exactly. I put a teaspoon of raspberry jam inbetween two layers of dough before baking in some muffins and it was yum yum yum. Cheers for the great recipe.
Linda
Hi when you say 1egg is that large or medium had this problem using wrong size eggs before
Sabine
Hi Linda, it’s large. Sorry for the confusion.
Carol
My kids were feasting over these. The muffins are moist and dense and we love the addition of white chocolate. Thank you so much for this awesome recipe!
Sabine
I'm happy that your kids and you love these muffins as much as I do! Thank you so much!
Hayley
Hey, do you use self raising or normal flour? And is it caster sugar?
Sabine
Hey Hayley, I use normal all-purpose flour and regular granulated sugar. You can use caster sugar as well. Hope that helps!
Ventura
can I use whole milk instead of buttermilk??
Sabine
You can use 1 cup milk and replace 1 tbsp milk with 1 tbsp white vinegar or lemon juice instead of the buttermilk.
Christa G
Hello, I tried this recipe and my batter was not liquify like the one in your video, am I doing something wrong?
Sabine
Hi Christa, I’m sorry that you had troubles with the recipe! The only guess I have is that you had too much dry or too little wet ingredients in the batter. Always spoon and level the flour in the measuring cup or you have too much flour in the batter. Did you use large eggs? How did it turn out?
Christa G
Hey Sabine, i think I added too much dry ingredients so II ended up adding about a half cup of heavy cream to fix it and it came out soooo good. Even my picky eater husband loved it. Your recipes are awesome??. I’m trying your beignet recipe next?
Sabine
How awesome, Christa! I’m so happy that they turned out well 🙂 Thanksgiving you so much. So keep in mind to spoon and level the flour for all of my recipes. happy baking!