Gluten-Free Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Muffins

These are the muffins for the bake sale, the office kitchen, the “bring a dessert” text you got an hour ago — the ones nobody guesses are gluten-free until you tell them. Almond flour keeps the crumb moist and tender in a way plain rice-flour bakes never manage, with a gentle nuttiness against dark chocolate. One bowl of dry, one bowl of wet, fold, bake in twenty minutes — no blend, no gums, no proving.

Gluten-Free Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Muffins

Tender, one-bowl gluten-free chocolate chip muffins built on almond flour — moist, quick, and good enough that nobody guesses they are GF. Just check the two labels that matter (baking powder and chocolate). Contains egg, dairy and almond.

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 22 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Servings: 12 muffins

Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

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• 200 g almond flour certified GF — see notes
• 50 g rice flour certified GF
• 1.5 tsp baking powder gluten-free — see notes
• 80 g sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 120 ml milk dairy or almond
• 60 g butter melted — or oil
• Dark chocolate chips to taste (a generous handful; source lists 1 tsp) — see notes

Method

 

1. Mix the dry: Mix the almond flour, rice flour and baking powder in a bowl.
2. Whisk the wet: Whisk the eggs, sugar, milk, melted butter (or oil) and vanilla until smooth.
3. Combine & fill: Fold the dry into the wet, then stir in the chocolate chips. Scoop into a lined muffin tin.
4. Bake & serve: Bake 20–22 minutes at 180°C. Cool slightly before serving.

Notes

Coeliac notes
• Baking powder is the sneaky one — some use wheat starch as filler; buy one labelled gluten-free.
• Dark chocolate chips: check for barley malt or shared lines; choose clearly gluten-free.
• Almond & rice flour are naturally GF but commonly milled with wheat — use certified/labelled GF if highly sensitive.
• Allergens: contains almond (tree nut), egg and dairy (use almond milk + oil for dairy-free).
• When a label is unclear, treat it as "not for me".

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