Dutch-process cocoa
57 g
Desserts
Olympic-style chocolate muffins.
Chocolate-chip muffins with a soft ganache center, inspired by the Olympic muffin craze. A home version, not the Olympic Village formula.
- Makes
- 12 muffins
- Hands-on
- 25 minutes
- Total time
- 1¼ hours including cooling
- Effort
- Easy
GET WHAT YOU NEED
Your shopping list
For 12 muffins.
All-purpose flour
240 g
Light brown sugar
266 g
Baking powder
1 teaspoon
Baking soda
1 teaspoon
Table salt
¾ teaspoon
Chocolate chips
170 g
Large eggs
2
Milk
170 g
Vanilla extract
2 teaspoons
Cider vinegar
2 teaspoons
Unsalted butter, melted
113 g, plus a little to grease liners
Dark chocolate chips, for filling
60 g
Heavy cream, for filling
120 g
Honey, for filling
15 g
Salt, for filling
1 pinch
Amounts are what the recipe uses, not package sizes. Compare quantities and product details before buying.
KEEP IT SIMPLE
Tools & supplies
Standard 12-well muffin pan and liners
Makes twelve even muffins.
Kitchen scale
Measures baking ingredients.
Mixing bowls and whisk
Combines batter without a mixer.
Small saucepan and piping bag
Makes and portions the ganache center.
STEP BY STEP
Make it
Prepare
Heat oven to 350°F. Line the pan and lightly grease liners.
Mix dry
Whisk cocoa, flour, sugar, leaveners and salt; stir in chocolate chips.
Mix wet
Whisk eggs, milk, vanilla and vinegar. Stir into dry ingredients with melted butter just until combined.
Bake
Divide among twelve wells, heaping the batter. Bake 20–25 minutes until a tester finds no wet batter.
Cool
Rest 5 minutes, then move to a rack to cool completely.
Make ganache
Heat cream until simmering. Remove from heat, add filling chocolate, honey and salt, and wait 2 minutes. Stir smooth and let cool until thick enough to pipe.
Fill
Cut a small cavity into each cooled muffin without cutting through its base. Pipe ganache into the cavities. Refrigerate filled muffins and any extra ganache.
Good to know
- Use Dutch-process cocoa as specified.
- Fill only after both muffins and ganache cool; warm filling can soak into the crumb.
SAVE THE MAKING
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Compare these finished options with making your own.
Bakery chocolate muffins
Finished chocolate muffins; no claim of Olympic supplier identity.
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Sources & further reading
Independent instructions informed by the sources below. No affiliation or endorsement is implied. These instructions have not been kitchen- or workshop-tested by DIBuyIt.
- King Arthur Baking: Chocolate Breakfast Muffins — Ingredient amounts and preparation method.
- Annika Eats: Olympic Chocolate Muffins — Ganache formula and cooled-muffin cavity-filling method; paired here with the King Arthur muffin base.