Quick One Bowl Applesauce Chocolate Chip Muffins
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These Quick One Bowl Applesauce Muffins with Chocolate Chips are soft, moist, and ready in just 30 minutes. Made with 9 simple ingredients, they’re the easiest muffins you’ll bake all week. Perfect for breakfast, lunchboxes, or a cozy snack with coffee!
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“Cannot tell you how incredible they are. I have tried so many apple muffin recipes involving all sorts of hijinks and food processors and multiple bowls. These are the best ones I’ve ever made.” – Rachel S
Applesauce Meets Chocolate Chip.
Warm one up for breakfast, tuck them into lunchboxes, or enjoy with your afternoon tea. These muffins don’t use fresh apple chunks, instead, applesauce keeps them perfectly moist. I like to use unsweetened applesauce, but regular works too if that’s what you have. Sam x
Potent Lemon Flavor – Fresh zest and juice shine through in both base and icing
Quick to Make – Just mix, press, ice, and chill
No Oven Needed – Sets firm in the fridge, no oven required
Watch how to make applesauce chocolate chip muffins
Ingredients you’ll need
- All-purpose flour – also called plain flour in Australia.
- Baking powder + baking soda – for rise and fluffiness.
- Unsalted butter – melted, you can swap with salted butter.
- Sugar – golden or white caster sugar works.
- Salt – to enhance flavor
- Unsweetened applesauce – sweetened works too, muffins will just be a little sweeter.
- Egg – large, beaten before mixing in.
- Vanilla extract – adds warmth.
- Chocolate chips – milk, dark, or white.
Easy substitutions
- No Chocolate Chips: Replace with ½ cup chopped nuts, dried cranberries, or raisins.
- Sweeter Muffins: Use sweetened applesauce instead of unsweetened.
How to make applesauce chocolate chip muffins
Step 1: Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, and baking soda into a large bowl.
Step 2: Add melted butter, applesauce, beaten egg, and vanilla. Fold gently with a spatula until just combined.
Step 3: Gently fold through chocolate chips.
Step 4: Spoon batter into muffin cups, filling ¾ full. Bake 18–20 minutes or until lightly golden and a toothpick comes out clean.
Samantha’s recipe tips
- Beat the egg before adding – easier to mix evenly.
- Don’t over-mix – a few streaks of flour are fine, this keeps muffins soft.
- Use a cookie scoop – neat, even portions every time.
- For muffins without liners – use a non-stick tin and cooking spray.
How to store
- Room Temp: Store in an airtight container for 3–4 days.
- Freeze: Wrap each muffin in cling wrap, then place in a freezer bag or container. Freeze up to 3 months.
- Thaw: Overnight in the fridge, or gently warm in microwave/oven.
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Applesauce Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
Method
- Prepare pan: Preheat oven to 340ºF (170ºC). Line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cups and set aside.
- Melt butter: Melt the butter and set aside to cool slightly while preparing the batter.
- Mix dry: In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- Add wet ingredients: Pour in the melted butter, applesauce, beaten egg and vanilla. Fold gently with a spatula until just combined, do not over-mix.
- Add chocolate chips: Stir through the chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
- Fill tin: Spoon the batter into the muffin cups, filling each about ¾ full. Tip: Use a small cookie scoop for even portions.
- Bake: Bake for 18–20 minutes or until lightly golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool: Let muffins cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy!
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Let us know how it was!If you enjoy this recipe, please consider leaving a ⭐️ star rating and a comment review below. I love to hear what you think and it’s much appreciated. Thank you! Your email address will not be published. Sam x
I just made this recipe and it was delicious but I did add some salt because the recipe didn’t call for any. I probably added 1/4 tsp and it was delicious!
Hi Rebecca, happy to hear you enjoyed these muffins! The added salt is a great idea. Thanks for sharing! Kindest, Sam 🙂
Made these last night for my 5yo’s lunchbox and had them all ready to go in the oven… but it had a complete meltdown and started smoking the house out, so I covered them, and put them in the fridge overnight (hoping to cook them in the morning).
I got up early, cleaned the oven and put them in for just a smidge over 15 minutes. Cannot tell you how incredible they are. I have tried so many apple muffin recipes involving all sorts of hijinks and food processors and multiple bowls. These are the best ones I’ve ever made. Cannot believe they were so easy.
Thank you so much for the recipe! I think it’s a great base recipe to perhaps modify and shoehorn other fruit / veg in… any suggestions?
Hi Rachel! Oh this is so wonderful to hear! I absolutely adore these easy apple muffins too and you’re right, they are so incredibly simple, especially with only using the one bowl. I’m glad to hear your oven also worked in the end so you could continue baking these and enjoy them, yay!
Yes! It’s a fabulous base recipe and I’ll actually be working on creating various new muffin recipes based upon this one. I think adding some grated carrots and some walnuts or pecans can make for a tasty carrot cake muffin. Or even some grated zucchini for even more additional veggies (squeezing out the excess juice from the zucchini is a must!). Also the addition of cocoa powder can make them chocolatey! As I mentioned, I’m definitely working on more flavours and variations based upon this recipe that I look forward to sharing! Thanks Rachel! x
Thanks so much, Samantha! I just went hunting for the recipe again as I forgot to save it and finally found you again! You’re in my Evernote recipe notebook now 🙂 Yay. Gonna make some more today. Thanks again! X
Hi Rachel! Hehe! Glad you found it again 🙂 You don’t want to lose these delightful muffins! You have just reminded me of them again also, which I’m going to bake again this weekend – yay! Enjoy Rachel! xx