My kids would eat a bag of Entenmann’s chocolate chip mini muffins every day if I let them. Actually, they’d probably each eat two bags if I let them, which they couldn’t even do because the box doesn’t come with enough bags for each kids to get two (I’ve broken up fights over this fact). For a while now, I have tried to make my own chocolate chip mini muffins to replace my kids Entenmann’s habit. I have zero baking skills so my kids were less than impressed. I mean they’d usually eat them (there was always chocolate in them after all) but still begged for “the real ones”. I’m pretty headstrong and once I set out to replace the Entenman’s in our pantry, I wasn’t giving up. I finally did it. I made chocolate chip mini muffins that look and taste like those crazy little muffin bags my kids go wild about. Actually… my biggest cooking critic Maggie said “these are even BETTER”. Here’s the best part: there are very few ingredients, you can go organic if you want and you will save SO much money making these. So, after many months (ok, years) of attempts and changing recipes, here you have my copy cat Entenmann’s chocolate chip mini muffins:

Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins

Ingredients:

cooking spray
mini muffin tray (this isn’t an ingredient, but something you definitely need)
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1.5 cups milk (I use 1% or 2%, when I used whole milk they weren’t as good)
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions: Recipe makes 48 chocolate chip mini muffins

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray the mini muffin tin with cooking spray. Mix all of the dry ingredients in one bowl: flour, white sugar, brown sugar, baking powder & salt. In another bowl, beat the egg and then add in the milk, vegetable oil & vanilla extract. Mix together the bowls of wet & dry ingredients. Once mixed, fold in the mini chocolate chips. Fill each muffin cups about 3/4 full with the batter. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove from the muffin tin and let cool. Last… watch as your kids are impressed you just made a “from scratch” version of their favorite muffins!