Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle Muffins
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED.
A flashback to my childhood, these Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle Muffins were a staple in my lunchbox and a favorite of mine and my brothers.
A few months ago, Hamilton Beach reached out to me and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing their 6 Speed Stand Mixer and offering a giveaway to my readers. (Uh, hello!) Of course I would be! I immediately thought it would be fun to do a recipe from that I remember from my childhood and offering the giveaway just in time for Mothers Day was a no brainer! What better way to do a childhood favorite and Mothers Day giveaway than to include my own Mountain Mama.
I asked my mom to be part of this post and invited her over for an afternoon of muffin making and doing motherly things. We’d been brainstorming for weeks about recipe ideas and ultimately settled on these snickerdoodle muffins. We both have fond memories of these. Mine in my lunch box and her most likely with a cup of hot tea after she’d put me and my brothers to bed. Don’t let the simplicity of these muffins fool you- it’s precisely that, that makes them so satisfying. You can’t go wrong with cinnamon and chocolate. Just saying. Plus their a breeze to make and freeze beautifully. Win, win.
We’d made plans to get together yesterday to bake these and give the new mixer a whirl since the last week was uber busy for us both and yesterday was literally the last day we’d be able to pull this post together since I wanted to do the giveaway today. For the record, I don’t get leaving things to the last minute from my mom. She is WAY more organized than I am and procrastinate is not in her repertoire. I did get my full head of hair and love of reading from her so it’s all good!
But you know what? We didn’t end up getting together because like I said before, my mom has a lot on her plate. So apologetic, she called last minute and asked if we could do this baking day another time because she wanted to go visit with a friend of hers who has recently been diagnosed with Cancer (again). Of course I told her to go. I’d be more than ok on my own. But you know what? She didn’t get to go sit with her friend after all because my almost 90 year old grandma slipped and fell coming home from church yesterday morning and broke her wrist and a few bones in her face. My mom had to rush to the hospital to navigate the doctors and her care. It was an unplanned very long day and one I’m sure she’d rather have spent baking muffins.
My mom wears a lot of hats. Mom, daughter, friend, grandma, wife. In a split moment she switches hats and goes to where she’s needed most. And she does it with so much grace. She is a giver through and through. I decided to go ahead and make the muffins without her. Not only did I have a very willing helper to step and take her place but I also wanted to take her a sweet treat to enjoy after her long day- nothing like eating your emotions, am I right? Ahem.
ps- granny is going to be just fine and my mom was able to carve out time to go sit with her friend this week. I made an extra big bag of muffins so she could take a few to share with my grandma as she too has a sweet tooth- I guess that’s where my mom and I get it!
Alrighty, enough of the heavy stuff, let’s give a mixer away! All you have to do is leave a comment below telling me your favorite thing to bake that reminds you of your childhood. Giveaway runs until midnight MST on Saturday, May 10th. I’ll announce the winner on Sunday the 11th (Mother’s Day)!!!!! Good luck!
Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle Muffins
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Chocolate chip snickerdoodle muffins are great anytime- breakfast, brunch or an after school snack!
Ingredients
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon, divided
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 cups buttermilk
- 2 cups chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
- Line 2 standard 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine brown sugar and oil. Mix until combined. Add eggs, one at a time, and mix thoroughly. Add vanilla.
- Add dry ingredients, alternating with buttermilk, and mix just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Divide batter into the pans to make 24 muffins.
- In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup granulated sugar and 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon. Sprinkle cinnamon-sugar mixture evenly over the muffins.
- Bake muffins in preheated oven for 18-22 minutes until puffy, golden and cooked through. Remove from oven and cool completely.
Big thanks to Hamilton Beach for providing me with a mixer as well as one to givaway. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
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Pies! I spent hours with my Grandma Amsberry making pies. No recipes….to this day I hear my grandma’s voice “feel it? can you feel the crust?” She is why I loooove to be in the kitchen.
I think I’m going to have to try those muffins this weekend!
My absolute favorite thing to bake when I want a good dose of nostalgia is my Mother’s Peanut Butter Bars. A peanut butter brownie – ish base with chocolate chips sprinkled one top and a peanut butter cream glaze drizzled on top. My mom used to have to make two pans of these when my brothers and I were young because we would gobble them up so fast. My mom taught me to bake and i think of her whenever I bake anything, but especially peanut butter bars.
My grandmas’s 7 layer cookies.
Chocolate crinkles! My all-time favorite cookies EVER! My mom makes the best and she ALWAYS includes them in her Christmas cookie tray and she “hides” a few for me to make sure I get my “crinkle fix”,
Christmas cookies with my dad and soda bread with my grandma!
My favorite baked item from when I was a kid is Icebox cake with chocolate wafers. My mom and I would make it every summer.
My mom started us off early by teaching us how to make muffins! As a child, eating a muffin fresh and warm from the oven was always such a fun reward for the pleasure of being able to spend some special time with mom in her private domain! To this day, I love to bake muffins, by myself or with my own children. There are so many wonderful ways to make muffins more fun by simply adjusting the ingredients! These Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodle Muffins are next on my list to try! Thank you for sharing!
I used to make a German chocolate layer cake with butter pecan and coconut frosting for my family (Mom and Dad…) when I completed baking in Home Economics class
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies! Mom tried to give us healthier food, so she would add oats, raisins, and walnuts to the chocolate chip cookies we would ask for.
We may have grumbled a little, but we ate them all. I grew up with a love for trying new things, new recipes using healthy ingredients, especially baking cookies.
Grandpa Arndt making his molasses cookies in the old house on Third St. He died when I was 8, but I have vivid memories of dough rolled out on the big kitchen table ready for any willing grandchild to cut out. Thick, chewy and oh so good. Nothing special about his recipe, except the love!
The smell of fresh baked bread hot out of the oven.
My favorite thing to bake that reminds me of childhood is a Funfetti Bundt Cake! One of my first memories of baking is of my mom, sister and I baking my sister a Funfetti Bundt Cake for her birthday!
I like baking pound cakes and vary the ingredients for the person receiving the cake as a gift. This is a family tradition passed down through many generations. It takes a sturdy mixer to beat all the ingredients just so. We used to do all this by hand. Imagine! As a small child, it just seemed like a fun time to dress up in aprons and play kitchen with the grown up women.
My grandma would always make this applesauce chocolate nuget loaf for special occasions. It is incredible. Now that she has had a stroke and can no longer bake, I have taken over the tradition for my family!
Peanut butter cookies. Mother always let me take the fork and mash the dough balls into “decorated” cookies.
My favorite thing to bake that reminds me of my childhood? That would be peanut butter blossoms. My grandma would always make them for me growing up and I loved them. They are still my favorite cookie to this day.
Cinnamon Rolls….my cousin and I used to knock on our Auntie Joanie’s door to ask her if we could make Cinnamon Rolls today. She never turned us down. We have very fond memories of sitting in her kitchen sprinkling cinnamon sugar on the dough. We could hardly wait for them to come out of the oven!!
The rolls my grandma would make for every holiday and sometimes just because were were going to her house. The smell, the texture….the smell. mmmmmmm.
Peanut butter cookies with my dad! We make them together every year around the winter holidays – I may be a grown adult but I still enjoy doing that with him. I hope your grandmom and mom’s friend get well soon.
Baked oatmeal! My mom would make it only a couple of times a year!
I remember the smell of baked sweets filling our home during the holidays. Mmm my favorite was snicker doodle cookies and cranberry white chocolate macadamia nut bars. I continue to make these desserts for my family now. But I always think of my mother and grandmother when I’m in the kitchen, especially during the holidays!
My favorite childhood memory…(which I make frequently) is warm chocolate cake with chocolate cooked frosting. We had it warm in our hands as we went outside to play hide-n-seek in the neighborhood.
I would have to say Chocolate Crinkles from the original Betty Crocker Cooky Cookbook! The toughest part of that recipe was having to wait 4 hours for the dough to chill!!!
Making homemade Cinnamon Rolls with my mom is a favorite memory. We always made a double batch. They were eaten first at breakfast and then throughout the day, until they disappeared! Baking family favorites brings back such scrumptious memories!
Bread!!!! Yum!!!!
Fav thing to bake..my grandmas oatmeal cookies. Never found any store bought ones anything like hers. She passed away a few years ago, and baking them brings her back if only for the day.
Believe it or not, from a Southern girl, a favorite from childhood is cherry cheesecake. I made it for my Daddy every summer from the start of high school til college graduation and thereafter when we had a celebration!
Strawberry rhubarb pie! I actually only made it one time, but the memories of that pie and that day are so vivid!
My mom made the BEST oatmeal cookies! They were big, and chewy!
I think when I bake someone a birthday cake is what brings me back the most. It always reminds me of my favorite birthdays when Mama made us a cake at home.
My favorite thing to bake is cakes.My granny made the best cakes.
Cinnamon Rolls – my grandmother would get up on Sunday mornings before the sun came up and would make trays of cinnamon rolls and she would cook bacon. After church all of her grandchildren would stop by and see her. We would get a cinnamon roll and 2 pieces of bacon. The last time I saw my grandmother (when she remembered who I was) she packed a paper bag with cinnamon rolls for my flight home. Those rolls had so much love in them. I was lucky to get that recipe before she passed at 99 years old.
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My favorite thing to bake from my childhood is chocolate chip cookies
My favorite thing to make with my kids is my mom’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies. We love to eat the dough, bake them up and dunk in milk. I love seeing chocolate smeared across their face. Brings back great memories of my mom.
It would have to be blueberry muffins I used to make with my grandma once a month when she could visit us.
Monster cookies……cause as a child, I loved just mixing everything together in the batch.
Chocolate Chip Cookies. A classic, but it definitely always reminds me of baking with my mom.
lemon squares are what I still make that reminds me of my childhood. It must also remind my siblings as they are always asking me to make them.
Growing up on the great state of Utah, we tend to have an abundance of zucchini. Therefor, my mom would always make zucchini bread. It isn’t your run of the mill kind either, it is so delicious, you had no idea you were eating something that healthy! She loves hers with nuts, but when I make mine I use chocolate chips. I love making it in my home because it reminds me of her so much. I am lucky enough to still have my mom here she is 72 years old. She still makes us loafs to take home and share with our families, or for my brother to go hunting and have something to take as if she is there with him rooting him on… She is amazing and that is just one thing she bakes out of so many, that are fantastic!!! 🙂
I guess it would be banana bread. Thanks for the chance to win.
Chocolate jumbo cookies! They are very popular in the Eastern part of NYS.
Pies, pies and more pies….apple, pumpkin and strawberry rhubarb especially.
Thanks for a great giveaway.
My favorite thing to bake is a Jello Poke Cake. We used to make them all the time when I was a kid, and my kids love making it because they like to poke holes all over the freshly baked cake.
Chocolate chip cookies, making them with my dad who knows the recipe by heart! We always end up baking about half as many cookies as we could, because the dough just tasted so darn good!
I’ll have to go with oatmeal cookies. My mom loved to bake on rainy days and her oatmeal cookies (actually my grandfather’s recipe) were my very favorite. To this day I want to bake cookies on rainy days.
Two vivid memories: the first is making English Tea Cookies with my grandmother in the 1950s and 60s and then having her make them with my daughters in the 1980s. The second is Rice Krispie Treats. My mom had a tricky way of cutting these so they came out like diamonds, not squares, and since my childhood I have made more batches than I care to think about. Let’s just say that my “doctored up” CHOCOLATE Rice Krispie Treats are both my sons-in-laws faves.
banana cake! my mom used to pick me up from the airport with a fresh warm cake…:)
SNICKERDOODLES!!!!! Smelled so good !
I love baking my mom’s orange cranberry bread during the holidays. Eating it was one of my favorite childhood memories during the fall and winter.
I remember my mom making cinnamon rolls-the aroma was fantastic.
Roll out sugar cookies each Christmas!
Banana chocolate chip muffins
I think of my grandma when I bake peanut butter cookies.
Every time I make pumpkin pies i think of my childhood.
Roll out/cut out sugar cookies were a favorite Christmas break activity. I remember mixing the dough getting flour everywhere and decorating getting frosting and sprinkles everywhere. It was grand fun I plan to pass on to my son.
My grandma gave me a 1963 Betty Crocker cookbook for my 16th bday in 1998. It was just like the one she had that we used to make pies. She found it at a garage sale. I hope to teach my kids and grandkids to make pies using it too!
My favorite thing to bake is spritz cookies. I made these every year. Growing up, baking was a big part of the holidays. My Aunt would be up from Texas, we would be in my Grandmother’s kitchen and the three of us would bake up a storm. When it wasn’t holiday season and even after my grandmother passed it would still be a tradition with my mom to continue to press out those spritz cookies.
My favorite cake my mom baked was Kentucky Butter Cake. Now it has become my kids favorite cake.
Homemade jam. Grandma taught us that it’s done when after it boils for 10 Hail Mary’s.
My favorite thing to bake that reminds me of my childhood are Snickerdoodle Cookies!
It would have to be Dream Bars from my Betty Crocker Cookie Cookbook (circa 1967). I still have that bad boy and the page where the recipe resides is still legible despite the melted butter that subsumed it when my untempered bowl spontaneously split in half over it! It scared the poop out of me!
There were two kinds: almond-coconut and walnut-chocolate chip, both with a brown sugar-butter-flour crust not to mention the eggs, butter and brown sugar mix that held it together . Oooooooh, baby!
I remember my mom letting us help make our birthday cakes every year and how fun it was to pick the flavor & how to decorate it
Baking sugar cookies always reminds me of my childhood.
Chocolate crinkle puff cookies, different from regular crinkle cookies so so good.
Chocolate mayonnaise cake. Very retro, I know, but everyone wants it for their birthday cake!!!
I love making peanut butter fudge brownies, my mom used to make them all the time growing up!
Angel food cake! I always loved seeing it cooling while sitting on top of a bottle.
brownies!
chocolate chip cookies of course!
Love these!!! And goodness, your little cooking model is the CUTEST!
A family recipe for pound cake. It’s been passed down from my great-grandmother. My mom makes it every year and so do I.
My grandmother made the best lemon meringue pie. After many years I have finally perfected the pie. I could never get the meringue right. I just wish she was still around so we could enjoy a slice together. Thanks for bringing back some great memories.
Definitely cupcake cones. I’m always flabbergasted when people don’t know about them! They definitely bring back my childhood.
My mom was and is a great cook. I always had homemade cookies in my lunchbox. Cookies are still my fav today.
My grandma’s pumpkin bread… she made it every Thanksgiving and I would eat more of that than the turkey!
Snickerdoodle cookies!
Hi Mountain Mama, Im living in Vietnam and we dont usually bake in our country. But Im really into the baking industry and my biggest dream is to open my bakery shop! to be honest I was not offered many chances to have cakes or any baked stuff when I was a child. what I would eat then was just rice and noodles.
But if there is sth to remind me of my childhood, it will be, no doubt, cinnamon buns! the only kind of sweet pastry I had for breakfast before getting to school, cos it was much cheaper than any other kind of bread hihi
I do do wish to have the give away gift and i can tell that im drooling while im typing this!
regards,
The things I bake that remind me of my childhood are sugar cookies and french bread.
My favorite thing to bake that reminds me of childhood is apple pie!
Cookies, always cookies. Of all kinds. My friends used to say that they loved coming to my house after school because it always smelled like freshly baked heaven. 🙂 Not sure how my mom accomplished that, because she worked full time as a nurse, but somehow, she did.
Another thing I like to bake is Apple Crumble Squares which reminds me of my childhood.
Apple Kuchen – my Gram would make this for us all the time.
I love baking cinnamon rolls! My grandma always made them for us around the holidays. Now that I am older I like that she adds a special touch by including raisins and I have taken to that too! But as a little one I would have traded those for more frosting!
PIE! I grew up in the Midwest, and pie was everything. Apple, blueberry, cherry, peach, pecan, strawberry-rhubarb…yum!
Recipe sounds great and what a nice prize someone will win for Mother’s Day! One recipe that comes to mind is the cranberry bread that my mom always made for Christmas. It is an easy recipe made with fresh cranberries of course and some other good ingredients. A yummy chocolate sheet cake was a frequent dessert for birthdays and some other special occasions. For Halloween she would decorate it with candy corn and candy pumpkins. I’ve always loved the extra little touches she has added to different things to make family gatherings and holidays a little more special. My mom has always been a good cook and loves to entertain. I recall many parties at our home with delicious food, a beautifully decorated table, and wonderful company. My sister, brother, and I often pitched in to help get things ready and clean up at the end of the evening. We are all better cooks and hosts because of the many talents she shared with us. I would love to able to receive a copy of this note and a winning notice in honor of my precious mother who has given so much of herself to myself and others through the years. I am truly blessed to have her for my mother!
My grandmothers pecan angel cookies. She always made them at Christmas and now I do too.
Without a doubt, my favorite thing to bake from childhood are my Grammy’s Whoopie Pies. They are like the world’s best devil dog. But the best part, right now, is that my Little Guy turns 1 on Friday, and instead of cake we’re having Grammy’s Whoopies, introducing the next generation into the world of old school treats.
Chocolate Chip Cookies. My mom has mastered the recipe and no matter how hard I try, hers are always the best. We love baking together and I cherish the moments we share in the kitchen!
Baking cardamom cookies at Christmastime with my mom!
My favorite thing to bake that reminds me of my childhood is chocolate chip cookies. I think I make them better than my mom did! Uh oh!
My favorite thing to make is cookie cakes! As when I was little every year for my birthday would get a giant cookie cake with the delicious frosting that would change your teeth all blue! OH so good!
Anything my Mom would make – Italian Pepper Cookies w/Annise
I love baking brownies!!
I loved making my grandma’s fudgy brownies from scratch. I used to have to hold the bowl to my chest while I mixed the tough batter with a wooden spoon. We did not have a mixer at the time. It’s still my favorite brownie recipe (especially with a Gramie-sized portion of walnuts).
My grandmother’s sugar cookies! I made a recipe in an old cookbook and knew when i ate the cookie that it was the recipe she used
Cinnamon rolls! My mom always made cinnamon rolls to go with Thankhiving and Christmas dinner. Her recipe was printed in the local paper along with an acticle. When I was little I told everyone my mom’s cinnamon rolls were famous. I always think of that when I make them.
Sugar cookies
I must try this recipe! All good things are baked with buttermilk 🙂
My absolute favorite memory of baking beyond Christmas cookies with my mom & granny, would have to be my great aunt’s bran muffin recipe. They have been loving nicknamed the “pipe-cleaners” by my husband. And, although I have tweaked the recipe to make them even more wholesome, I still love to stick my finger in the batter bowl being stored in the fridge just as I did as a child 🙂 My mom always pretended she didn’t notice, and recently she admitted to secretly doing the same all these years!
i love to bake scones since i always helped my mom when we were little!
I remember apple pie and the beautiful fragrance coming from the oven.
Basic chocolate chip cookies remind me of being a kid 🙂
My favorite thing to bake are chocolate chip cookies 🙂 I remember making dozens upon dozens of cookies with mom growing up and it was always SO fun!
Coconut Cream Pie!
Chocolate Chip Cookies! Thanks!
Christmas cookies are the one thing I always remember baking with my mom growing up! I still love doing it every year.
My favorite childhood memory is baking ANY cookie. My mom was very supportive and helpful. My fave cookie to make then with her and now with my children is chocolate chip.
Red velvet! It’s so funny that it’s been all the rage the past few years as people use to be completely baffled when I said it was my fave. It had to be made with the flour based icing though – I refuse to do it with cream cheese as it overpowers the flavor of the cake 🙂
My favorite thing to bake that reminds me of my childhood is definitely German Chocolate Cake
This isn’t exactly “baking,” but I think one of my favorite things that I “made” as a child was ice cream soup. When I visited my grandmother, she would make me a giant bowl of Blue Bell chocolate ice cream and I would take tiny bites out of it until it melted enough for me to stir it around and announce, “I made soup!” Then immediately drink it out of the bowl. It always amazed her and my parents that I had the patience to wait for the ice cream to melt and not eat it all at once. To this day, I always love to leave a little melted ice cream at the end to slurp up.
Dad’s oatmeal cookies.
Well the only baking from my childhood I remember is the iconic Toll House chocolate chip cookies! But now that I’m a SAHM I’m baking something almost every week! If it’s not cookies or muffins, it’s homemade bread – oatmeal is my favorite.
I also remember shortbread cookies as being a favorite.
Yikes, this isn’t homey or warm, but Little Debbie’s Fudge Rounds reminds me of my childhood. My mother would NEVER have allowed them, but my Dad bought them for us at a gas station every time we were out with him.
Blueberry muffins. i have loved them all my life and think of my uncle clayton and aunt marian when i eat them.
Cherry Squares! So simple and passed down from generation to generation!
My favorite thing to bake that reminds me of my childhood is Sugar Cookies.
cookies and cakes
I also remember apple muffins with walnuts as being so delicious.
Nestle Tollhouse Cookies. When I was a young girl my older sister would bake these cookies when she got home from school. It was always so much fun helping her stir the bowl and taste the raw batter. And it seemed like the TV show, “Hazel,” was always on when we were baking. So now when I see the show, I can taste cookies.
Chocolate and cream cheese mini cupcakes. My mom makes them the best!!
I always made candy cane cookies with my mom at Christmas
My great-grandma used to make a great pineapple upside down cake. I haven’t had one in ages and haven’t made one as an adult, but I should try one soon.
Another favorite was oatmeal cookies in the oven.
I love to bake chocolate chip pan cookies! They take me right back to being 10 years old!
bread for sure!
Christmas cookies! I remember having all my cousins over and my mom would have all of use make and decorate Christmas cookies. So now I have continued the tradition with my kids and their cousins.
I have to say, growing up my mom was not a baker, but she was and still is a fabulous cook at the ripe young age of 88! Never used a measuring cup or measuring spoons, just eye balled it! Needless to say, that’s how I cook and bake today also!! But, my favorite memory was baking with my three children as kids! We loved to bake chocolate chip cookies and brownies together, and my Mom, their Oma, enjoyed watching them bake as well! Tradition and family are a beautiful thing to pass on!! Happy Mother’s to all!
Snickerdoodles 🙂 thanks for the giveaway
A question; I made these delicious muffins yesterday. They still taste amazing, but the cinnamon sugar topping is all moist.
I let them cool before I put them in a large container. I covered it with the lid, but didn’t seal it.
Is there a way to keep them like a snickerdoodle on top?
Mmm, I’m going with pumpkin pie. It was one of my favorite childhood desserts, and it is one of my favorite adulthood desserts!
My grandmother and I made zimmtsterne (cinnamon stars) for Christmas while I was growing up in Germany. The cookie is made with sugar, cinnamon, beaten egg whites and ground nuts. The stiff egg white mixture is spread out on a surface coated with powdered sugar and cut with star shaped cookie cutters then baked in a low oven to dry out. They were a little tricky to make but Omi had a lot of patience and I was able to master making them with her before she died.
Peanut Butter Cookies was another favorite.
The recipe says to add vanilla but it does not say how much. Am I just missing it? Thanks!
1 teaspoon
How much cinnamon goes in the dough 1 tablespoon or 1 heaping teaspoon?
Thank you, Nan
Sorry if that was confusing, I’ve corrected the recipe to read easier. It’s 1 tablespoon total. 2 teaspoons in the muffins and 1 teaspoon mixed with the sugar for the topping.
Thank you for the clarification Kelly! Your recipes are the best!!! I could not bake in our high altitude without your help.