Sometimes I try to justify eating chocolate for breakfast. These Cherry Chocolate Muffins do have some fruit in them (thank heavens), so you can feel a little less guilty about eating a few for breakfast.
They are sure to please your breakfast guests (and your family too).
I will even make these for snacks, breakfast, side dishes, and dessert. They go with just about everything, and are a hit every time.
When I make them for breakfast, I love to serve them with our Homemade Apple Cider.
These Cherry Chocolate Muffins only take a few minutes to throw together, and taste delicious. You need to try these.
If you love Cherry & Chocolate make sure to try our Cherry Chocolate Nut Bars!
How to make cherry chocolate muffins:
Step 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Step 2: Mix dry cake mix (don’t follow directions on the box), baking powder, flour, milk, oil, and eggs together thoroughly.
Step 3: Fold in the cherries and chocolate chips (reserving a few to sprinkle on top).
Step 4: Pour the batter into lined muffin cups, filling about 2/3 full, and bake for 15-20 minutes.
If you don’t have liners, you could also just spray you muffin tin, with non-stick cooking spray, and they should
Makes 16-18 muffins.
What cherries could I use for this recipe?
I don’t know if I’m very familiar with my cherries all that well, but I will recommend a few that I have become familiar with, and have preferred using when I make my Cherry Chocolate
-Dried Cherries are a great alternative for this recipe. They will be a little more chewy in your muffins, but work just as great.
-Dark Sweet Frozen Cherries would also work. We recommend thawing them before putting them in your muffins, or else they will make your muffins soggy.
-Fresh Dark Sweet Cherries. These are my personal favorite to use with these muffins. They are so sweet and delicious. You are going to love them with your chocolate muffins.
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Cherry Chocolate Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- 15.25 ounces chocolate cake mix
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 Tablespoons flour
- ⅔ cup milk
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup milk chocolate chips
- 2 cups fresh cherries, or frozen, pitted and chopped
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Mix dry cake mix (don't follow directions on the box), baking powder, flour, milk, oil, and eggs together thoroughly.
- Fold in the cherries and chocolate chips (reserving a few to sprinkle on top)
- Pour into lined muffin cups, filling about 2/3 full, and bake for 15-20 minutes.
Nutrition
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If frozen cherries are used, is there a difference in moisture in the muffins? Does it change the baking time at all?
We didn’t notice a difference in the muffins when we used frozen cherries. Cooked them for the time listed on the recipe, but be sure to check them while cooking just to be safe. You don’t want them to be overcooked.
Any type of chocolate cake mix? Devils Food, Swiss, Chocolate Fudge… What did you use? Thanks!
We have used Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge, milk chocolate, and double chocolate cake mixes. But any chocolate cake mix will work great!
Made this this afternoon using Devils Food cake mix, frozen cherries and milk chocolate chip! They are GREAT! Moist And fixed my chocolate craving…. Will make again!
These muffins look delicious. Can I leave the chocolate chips out, maybe replace them with hopped pecans or macadamia nuts?
You can totally add in nuts in place of the chocolate chips. It won’t be as chocolaty, but still amazing!