Gluten-Free Chocolate Cheese Muffins

These Chocolate Cheese Muffins are an absolute favorite for Pesach. You may be baking them on repeat.

Ever since this recipe by Faigy Cohen was featured in the Whisk’s Pesach Edition of 2022 (Ami Magazine’s Food Magazine), I have been adding 3-4 tubs of cream cheese to my Pesach grocery list. Because, these muffins are something that you bake once, and they go so fast, so then you bake some more. And more. 

This is the perfect thing to serve on Chol Hamoed as a late breakfast or a coffee break. They’re delicious and not Pesachdig tasting at all. This has become a family staple, something we look forward to from year to year. Thank you Faigy!

Beating eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl with spout with a hand mixer.

Start by beating together the eggs and sugar. A hand mixer is perfect for this and a cheap purchase that will last you a lifetime of Pesach cheesecakes. Use it to mix your pancakes as well, or to prepare this cheesecake.

Beating a creamy mixture of eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl with spout with a hand mixer.

Let it get nice and creamy…

Adding potato starch to a creamy mixture of eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl with spout. Hand Mixer beaters leaning on the bowl rim.

Add the potato starch…

Potato starch and cocoa added to a creamy mixture of eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl with spout. Hand Mixer leaning on the bowl rim.

And the cocoa…

Beating potato starch and cocoa with a creamy mixture of eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl with spout with a hand mixer.

Blend together.

Drizzling oil into chocolate batter being beaten with a hand mixer.

Then drizzle in the oil and the diluted coffee.

Chocolate muffin batter in a mixing bowl with spout. Hand Mixer beaters leaning on the bowl rim.

The muffin batter is done. 

Emptying a J&J whipped cream cheese container with a spatula. Cream cheese and sugar in a mixing bowl with spout. Egg in a glass nearby.

The cheese filling is super quick to make too.

Blending cream cheese, sugar, and egg in a mixing bowl with spout with a hand mixer.

Just blend together the cream cheese, sugar, and egg…

Creamy cheese mixture and chocolate muffin batter in bowls with spouts. Hand Mixer beaters leaning on the cheese mixture bowl rim.

Until it’s nice and creamy!

Piping cheese mixture into muffin cups with chocolate batter.

While you can just dollop the cheese filling, it’s much easier and neater to add it to a piping bag. 

Then, once you add the batter to your muffin cups, you can just pipe the filling in. We don’t mind if it peeks out of the top a bit.

Muffin cups filled with chocolate batter and cheese filling, sprinkled with mini chocolate chips.

Sprinkle on some chocolate chips.

Baked chocolate cheese muffins in pans.

Yum. Enjoy any morning with your coffee!

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5 from 3 votes

Chocolate Cheese Muffins

printed with permission from Ami Magazine
Servings: 18
Author: Faigy Cohen

Ingredients

Muffin:

  • 4 eggs
  • 1 ¼ cups sugar
  • ¾ cup potato starch
  • ½ cup cocoa powder
  • 1 cup oil
  • ½ tsp coffee, diluted in a few drops of boiling water
  • mini chocolate chips

Cheese Filling:

  • 8 ounces cream cheese (we used the whipped one in a tub, unwhipped works too)
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 egg

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • In a bowl, combine eggs and sugar until fluffy. Add potato starch, cocoa powder, oil, and coffee, mixing until well combined.
  • Prepare the cheese filling: In a separate bowl, beat together cream cheese, sugar, and egg until smooth. Add filling to a piping bag.
  • Add liners to 18 muffin cups. Divide batter between them. Pipe cheese filling into each batter. Top with mini chocolate chips. Bake for 25 minutes.

Notes

We tested out the muffins in disposable and hard pans and the baking time didnt prove to be different at all.
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15 responses to “Gluten-Free Chocolate Cheese Muffins”

  1. YH Avatar
    YH

    This looks delicious!
    Any ideas what to do if I don’t have a dairy oven? Can I bake covered, or maybe bake it in the Betty Crocker?

    1. HP Avatar
      HP

      When I had only one oven, I was told to burn out the oven at 500 degrees for 30 minutes before and after baking milchigs if I wanted to use it for both milchig and fleishig. But ask your LOR

  2. D Avatar
    D

    5 stars
    This looks amazing!!

  3. Mindy Avatar
    Mindy

    Yes can it bake in a Betty?
    Also will it work with a hand blender the stick kind?

  4. Leah Avatar
    Leah

    How about using cheese snack instead of cheese mixture like you do in the chometz recipe?

  5. Leah Avatar
    Leah

    Yea, wish I can make but I don’t have the luxury of a milchig oven. I don’t think a Betty is tall enough to bake these. O well!
    Was thinking it’s a good idea for before when u want food but not too much chometz. Or ppl on gluten free diet.

  6. chanala zarum Avatar
    chanala zarum

    can i use almond flour instead of potato starch, think it’ll change the consistency?

    1. Renee Muller Avatar
      Renee Muller

      Never tried. Might make them heavy and dense

  7. Yael Miller Avatar
    Yael Miller

    Will it survive a toaster oven to bake it?

    1. Renee Muller Avatar
      Renee Muller

      Should work in a toaster oven no problem

  8. Leah Avatar
    Leah

    5 stars
    Just made this and they were delicious, but dense. Is it possible that it’s missing baking powder or baking soda?

  9. Mindy Avatar
    Mindy

    Works fine to mix the cheese part with a fork (just takes a few min). A stick blender would work too – I used it for cheesecake recipe that called for a mixer. Whisk would be good too if you have one. The muffin batter is pareve and can be made in your regular mixer. You can also use the foil baking cups with paper liners, on a metal baking sheet, if you dont have muffin pans. I like to swirl the cheese into the chocolate, it’s pretty and you get cheese in every bite. Just don’t over swirl. I’m assuming these will freeze well, as the chometzdik ones do. Looking forward to enjoying these for breakfast!

    1. Mindy Avatar
      Mindy

      They froze beautifully, in fact like many Pesach baked goods, were best from the freezer (after 5 min). The ones baked in the foil baking cups were best, they spread more so less dense. And we ended up liking the non-swirled ones better. Definitely a keeper for next year!

  10. Rebecca Avatar
    Rebecca

    5 stars
    does this recipe need baking soda or baking powder? they’re delicious but not so fluffy

  11. Chani Avatar
    Chani

    Is it possible to bake this as one big cheesecake instead of muffins?

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