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These bakery style strawberry muffins with chocolate chips are fluffy delicious muffins full of both chocolate and strawberry flavor in every bite! They are made with olive oil instead of butter, which makes them a naturally dairy-free recipe.

Fresh strawberries and chocolate are a match made in heaven! Put them in muffin form, and you have yourself a delightful strawberry chocolate breakfast, snack or dessert!
These strawberry chocolate chip muffins have been my recent favorite way to enjoy the strawberry chocolate combo. Every-time that I bake them, they disappear quickly.
Speaking of baking, I am a HUGE fan of baking with olive oil. I use olive oil instead of butter in many of my recipes. From paleo almond brownies, to olive oil sugar cookies, to pumpkin olive oil cake, I prefer using olive oil and the results are just delicious.
The same is true for these chocolate strawberry muffins… olive oil works great and results in a healthier fluffy lighter textured muffin.
Ingredients needed to make these dairy-free strawberry muffins:
- all purpose flour
- salt
- baking powder
- olive oil
- brown sugar ( or coconut sugar)
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- almond milk ( or any non- dairy milk of your choice)
- chopped fresh strawberries
- semi-sweet chocolate chips (they can be dairy-free or any type of chocolate that you choose)
Tips and tricks:
Olive oil- to make muffins with olive oil, you have to make sure you are using a good quality olive oil. It can be light in taste or color or deep in taste or color. It all depends on what you like.
Batter- the batter here will be thick and sticky. This is normal and it actually helps make the muffins maintain their shape. Make sure not to overmix it!
Strawberries- use fresh strawberries! When you chop them, you want them to be larger pieces. They should be about 1/2 inch in size.
Baking- keep an eye on your muffins. I would check them around the 20 minute mark. If they are already starting to look harder and golden, test them with a tooth pick to see if the tooth pick comes out dry.
Other healthy muffin recipes you will enjoy:
Dairy-free Banana Oatmeal Muffins Made with Olive Oil
Gluten-free Dairy-free Blueberry Muffins (Paleo)
Paleo Chocolate Banana Muffins (Dairy-free, Gluten-free)
Paleo Chocolate Cherry Muffins (GF)
Paleo Gluten-Free Apple Crumb Muffins
Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins made with Olive Oil (Dairy-free)
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup light olive oil
- 1 cup brown sugar, can use coconut
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup almond milk
- 1.5 cups chopped fresh strawberries
- 3/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Mix the flour, salt and baking powder together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the olive oil and brown sugar together with a hand-held mixer. Add the eggs and vanilla to the bowl and beat.
- Add 1/2 of the flour mixture to the olive oil sugar mixture and beat with mixer until combined. Then add 1/2 of your almond milk and mix. Repeat with the remainder of the flour and almond milk and mix.
- Fold in the strawberries and chocolate chips into the batter. Don’t overmix.
- Line a 12 cup muffin tin with liners OR grease with olive oil spray. Fill tins with an even amount of the batter.
- Bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let the muffins cool for 5 minutes, then remove them from the tins and cool them on wire racks for 15-30 minutes.
- Store uncovered.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
I like the way you laid out the recipe. The only thing I changed was on the second half of the dry ingredients I poured in the chocolate chips, fluffed them to coat &then I did the same for the chopped strawberries. I find that way they don’t sink to the bottom.
(oh, & I’m vegan so I substituted ground flax meal & water for the eggs, 1T flax to 3T water per egg)
Mmmm Yummy! Very light & airy. I thought what with the strawberries & chocolate chips it would be denser. Delightful surprise.
Great to know flax eggs worked here. Thank you!