Copycat Costco Chocolate Muffins

Copycat Costco Chocolate Muffins

Copycat Costco chocolate muffins are here! Homemade with chocolate chips inside and tastes like the jumbo chocolate muffins you buy. From scratch, these and their jumbo blueberry muffins are great for breakfast or dessert.

Costco Chocolate Muffins

If you haven't yet had a Costco chocolate muffins have you even lived? We mean they disappear the fastest in every single household we know of. Yes they are definitely a dessert but we have been guilty of eating one for breakfast too, because they are one of the best muffin recipes y'all.

Copycat Costco Muffin Recipes

No we don't work for this popular big box store and have the exact recipe but think we came pretty darn close with this one here. Jumbo chocolate chocolate chip muffins are what they should be called but where they came from describes them perfectly too.

Jumbo Chocolate Muffins Recipe

It is one of our favorite stores, even though it's a bit scary to allow our husband to go alone. A while back we created a roundup of Costco air fryer recipes because cooking frozen foods in that machine is where it's at. Now we went to the sweeter end of things to satisfy those late night (or morning) cravings.

homemade chocolate muffins

Costco Chocolate Muffin Calories

Do we need to talk about the nutrition of these? They are a real treat our friends so let's move on and enjoy them without thinking about the other fluff, but we will share it if you want.

How many calories are in a chocolate muffin from Costco?

We mean they aren't deemed a health food, all in moderation friends. If you need to know it's about 700 calories if you ate the whole thing. There is nutritional information on the box for all varieties so take note of that if it is important to you before consuming.

How much does a Costco muffin cost?

Well you can't buy one but you get 12 for $7.99 so if you divided that out that would come to.67 cents each or so which is pretty great. Homemade is always cheaper though and you can adjust it as you wish. Add semi sweet chocolate chips to make exactly the same or leave out if you would rather.

How to Make Costco Muffins

You can buy a whole flat of this type or a mixture of a few like lemon poppyseed muffins and of course their jumbo blueberry muffins too. We like a mixture of a few so each of us can choose which we want that day. We will say the chocolate is quite dense and filling so typically half is plenty in one sitting.

The way to make these so large is to own a jumbo muffin tin pan like this one. You can use it to make all types of varieties well beyond this dessert style.

Costco Muffins

Costco Chocolate Muffins Ingredients

We do like to use muffin paper liners so they slide right out and don't stick. You can grab them better in the morning too and slice in half without as much mess either.

Some All purpose flour is needed, make sure you measure flour properly so they aren't too dense.

Use a good type of Cocoa powder to get that rich chocolate flavor to them. Cheaper varieties don't offer as much flavor as ones that cost a bit more like Ghirardelli.

White sugar is granulated to make them sweet. You could use a sugar free alternative that had a 1:1 ratio

  • Baking powder
  • Salt
  • Milk
  • Greek yogurt makes them super moist
  • A few eggs, room temperature is always best
  • Vegetable oil
  • 2 c chocolate chips or chocolate chunks to make them double chocolate muffins

You could add crushed nuts too but that wouldn't be like they sell them. We are a hard no when it comes to nuts in our baked goods too, soft doesn't allow for any crunch our friends.

double chocolate muffin recipe

How to make bakery-style jumbo chocolate muffins

Key to keeping them as fluffy and moist as chocolate cake; Do not over bake them y'all, jut enough baking time without overdoing it is important. In order to make sure this is achieved keep an eye on them at the end closely. As soon as the middle springs back when lightly touched in the center take them out. Remove them from the pan too or they will continue to bake, no good.

Same tips go for when you Bake Mini Muffins too. Keep 'em as tender as possible y'all.

How Long to Bake Jumbo Chocolate Muffins

You are going to first want to bake at 400F for 5 minutes. Then you will reduce heat from 400 F to 350F and continue to bake for 25-30 minutes baking time or until a toothpick comes out mostly clean with moist crumbs attached (not dry) for the moistest outcome of all.

You can jump to recipe below and try these, we have two other versions below that they make as well you can try. If you don't eat them all in one sitting the best way to save muffins is to keep the air out. Air is the enemy and will dry them out quickly so freezer bags work well. Suck all the air out every time you take one out for best results.

Costco poppyseed muffins are great with a glass of Dalgona coffee y'all Add our favorite muffin crumb topping to the top.

Costco Chocolate Muffins Recipe

By Copycat Costco chocolate muffins are here! Homemade with chocolate chips inside and tastes like the jumbo chocolate muffins you buy. Prep: 10 minutes minsCook: 30 minutes minsServings: 6 Save Recipe Saved! Pin Recipe Comment Print Recipe

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 cup chocolate chips
  • 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 400F. Line a jumbo muffin pan with 6 large muffin liners. Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, white sugar, baking powder and salt until completely combined.
  • Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the milk, greek yogurt, eggs, vanilla extract and vegetable oil. Stir well until wet ingredients are well combined into the dry ingredients and no dry steaks remain in the batter.
  • Add the chocolate chips and gently fold in. Divide the muffin batter evenly amongst the 6 prepared liners.
  • Bake for 5 minutes, then reduce heat from 400 F to 350F and continue to bake for 25-30 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out mostly clean with crumbs attached.

Nutrition

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

Additional Info

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How long do costco chocolate muffins last?

You are way better off keeping them in the fridge for up to 14 days. If you only want to enjoy a few a week you are better off freezing half of them. That way you can enjoy a few out of the fridge kept moist and then take a few out of the freezer to defrost on the counter over a few hours, or microwave for about 1 minute.

Once you have the special pan you can go on to make all other sorts of varieties. Use your favorite basic muffin recipe of your choice and then adjust the bake time and temp to the details of this one here. Each oven is slightly different so once you figure out the exact timing where crumbs are attached to your toothpick take note.

Moist is key and that will be anywhere from 25 minutes to half an hour. Somewhere in between will be right to keep them super moist, like 27 works for us but test what is right for your kitchen for future batches.

copycat costco chocolate muffins