Peanut Butter Muffins
Recipe: Peanut Butter Muffins
Peanut Butter Muffins are super moist, soft, full of chocolate chips and packed with protein. Besides peanut butter, addition of egg and yogurt ups the protein.These muffins are easy to make and ideal as lunchbox treats, breakfast option, as a snack or for parties and picnics. I have baked countless peanut butter muffins for my daughter when she was in college and then when she started working. Initially it was for her friends and then her work team.
Sharing Peanut Butter Muffins Recipe With The Group Sunday Funday
The host for this Sunday’s theme is Amy who blogs at Amy’s Cooking Adventures. This is what she suggested “September 13 is National Peanut Day! Let’s celebrate by creating recipes featuring peanuts.” We could use peanuts or peanut butter. I opted to use peanut butter to redo an old peanut butter muffin recipe. I had posted it on my blog on 06/09/2013. It definitely needed better photos.
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Ingredients Required For Peanut Butter Muffins
All Purpose Flour
Also known as plain flour. I have used the regular all purpose flour.
Baking Powder
Acts as a leavening agent. Make sure you scoop the baking powder with a spoon and level it out before adding to the flour.
Baking Soda
Soda bicarbonate, adds as a leavening agent. Scoop the baking soda with a spoon and level it out before adding to the flour.
Salt
The peanut butter I have used does not contain any salt. Therefore I added ½ tsp. If the peanut butter is salted add less salt.
Chocolate Chips
I have used dark chocolate chips. Can use milk chocolate or a mixture. Sometimes I reduce the chocolate chips by ¼ cup and add roasted unsalted peanuts.
Brown Sugar
For this muffin recipe I use only brown sugar. This means that the muffins do not taste too sweet.
Peanut Butter
I use natural peanut butter either smooth or chunky. The peanut butter has no salt, sugar or oil added to it. As a result, have to adjust the amount of salt I add to the muffin batter.
Greek Yogurt
Plain and thick.
Oil
I use sunflower oil. Add any oil of your choice. Or you can add melted butter.
Milk
Normal dairy milk.
Eggs
2 large eggs which are room temperature. I usually leave them out overnight so next day I don’t have to wait for them to reach room temperature.
Vanilla Extract or Essence
As I didn’t have extract, I added 2 tsp vanilla essence.






PEANUT BUTTER MUFFINS
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- ¾ cup peanut butter chunky or smooth
- 1 cup milk
- ¼ cup oil
- ½ cup Greek yogurt plain
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Line the muffin tray or cups with paper cups.
- Alternately, can light grease the muffin pan with butter or oil.
- Sieve the flour along with the baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Add chocolate chips and mix well. If you are using peanuts, add them too.
- In another bowl add peanut butter, sugar, yogurt, milk, oil, eggs and vanilla essence.
- Whisk to mix well.
- Add the flour mixture and mix just enough so that the flour becomes wet. Do not over mix.
- Spoon the batter into the prepared cups or tray. Fill ¾ of the cup.
- Place the tray or cups in the oven and bake for 25 minutes or until the muffins are golden brown.
- Insert a toothpick or a fork into a muffin. If it comes out clean then the muffins are done.
- Remove the muffins from the oven. Allow the muffins to cool on a wire rack.
- If you are using a muffin tray without the paper cups, then allow the muffins to sit in the pan for 5 minutes.
- Using a knife, run it gently around the muffin so it comes out easily.
Notes
- Make sure the peanuts are roasted if you want to add them to the muffin batter.
- If chocolate chips are not available in your area, just take a bar of chocolate and chop it up.
- The batter may appear runny but that is okay. Peanut butter tends to take up moisture on baking.
- Use half quantity plain flour and half quantity wheat flour.
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If you do try this recipe then please either
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- send a picture to my email mayuri.ajay.patel62@gmail.com
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17 Comments
Shruti
September 7, 2013 at 1:30 am
Loved the combination of many flavors!!! Peanut butter, bananas chocolate, brown sugar… Wow 🙂
Thanks for linking it to my event! Waiting for more yummy recipes…
Rafeeda AR
September 9, 2013 at 10:39 am
that's a lovely cupcake… thanks a lot for linking it onto the event… 🙂
Srimathi Mani
September 12, 2013 at 1:58 am
My daughter is a huge fan of muffins. She would love to take this in her lunch box. thanks for sharing the recipe and sending in your recipes to our event.
Nayna Kanabar
November 12, 2013 at 8:53 pm
What lovely muffins, thanks for sending them to Flavours of USA and Canada event.
Anonymous
March 25, 2018 at 6:05 am
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You have touched some good factors here. Any way keep up wrinting.
Wendy M. Klik
September 13, 2026 at 8:27 am
Delicious looking muffins, using ingredients I always have on hand.
mayurisjikoni
September 16, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Thanks Wendy.
Stacy
September 13, 2026 at 12:53 pm
Peanut butter and dark chocolate is my ideal sweet muffin combo! Yours look lovely, Mayuri!
mayurisjikoni
September 16, 2026 at 2:39 pm
Thank you so much Stacy, I too love them as they are a great way to sneak in protein.
Amy’s Cooking Adventures
September 13, 2026 at 1:45 pm
Love a peanut butter chocolate combo! Great choice!
mayurisjikoni
September 16, 2026 at 2:38 pm
Thanks Amy.
Karen’s Kitchen Stories
September 13, 2026 at 2:20 pm
I’m impressed at how clean your muffin tin is! Mine’s so stained! Your muffins sound delicious too.
mayurisjikoni
September 16, 2026 at 2:38 pm
Karen, you should have seen the muffin tin I left behind in Kenya. This one is 5 years old. And mostly I do line it with paper cups.And I don’t put it in the dish washer. They usually get rusty, don’t know why.
hobby baker Kelly
September 13, 2026 at 3:52 pm
The extra chocolate chips studding the top make them so appealing!
mayurisjikoni
September 16, 2026 at 2:36 pm
Thanks Kelly, I always add some more on top.. love it.
Sneha Datar
September 20, 2026 at 1:39 am
These muffins are so good, must try this recipe!
mayurisjikoni
September 20, 2026 at 1:51 pm
Thanks Sneha Enjoy when you bake them.