These healthy chocolate zucchini muffins are made with simple ingredients, have no refined sugar and are dairy free. Super moist, fudgy and delicious with chocolate flavor, they will be a hit in your home! An easy and seasonal breakfast, lunch snack, or even dessert that boasts hidden veggies and is homemade in just 40 minutes.
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Zucchini is in season right now and if you need to be baking these healthy chocolate zucchini muffins and a few other delicious pastries like pumpkin zucchini muffins or healthy zucchini bread!
These healthy chocolate zucchini muffins are the best! They are also a definite crowd pleaser despite the hidden veggies that come with them, hello zucchini!
Why This Recipe Works
- Hidden veggie recipe perfect to get an extra serving of veggies in the picky eaters in your home!
- Made with almond flour and gluten free.
- No butter, these healthy chocolate zucchini muffins are made with coconut oil.
- Naturally sweetened and refined sugar free, these healthy zucchini muffins are sweetened with coconut sugar (maple syrup or honey are also excellent ways to sweeten them.
- Double chocolate from cocoa powder (or sub with cacao powder) and dairy free chocolate chips. Chocolate for breakfast is always a plus for me!
- Whether you have a garden or stocked up at the farmer’s market, this recipe is a great way to use up zucchini. A healthy muffin recipe is worth turning your oven on in the summer!
- Easy to make ahead for a week’s worth of healthy treats!
Ingredients You Need for This Recipe:
Here are the ingredients you need to make this recipe. Reference the recipe card at the bottom for exact measurements.
- Almond flour: be sure to use fine almond flour, not almond meal. You may choose to grind up the almond flour even more if you want an even finer texture.
- Gluten free flour: recommend either Bob’s Red Mill gluten free 1-1 baking flour or King Arthur flour gluten free all purpose flour. Both measure at one-for-one compared to all purpose flour and provide a great texture for gluten free muffins.
- Grated zucchini: Generally 1 medium zucchini yields 1 to 1.25 cups of shredded zucchini. You may peel the zucchini if you have picky eaters or may leave it on.
- Non-dairy milk: only add if mixture seems to dry once all other ingredients have been added.
How to Make This Recipe
This is a step by step walkthrough of how to cook this recipe. Exact times and temperatures are available in the recipe card at the bottom.
- Preheat oven to 350F. Add dry ingredients to a bowl.
- Mix dry ingredients using a whisk and set aside.
- Crack eggs into a small bowl and beat eggs until well beaten.
- Add remaining wet ingredients to egg bowl and gently mix.
- Add wet ingredients to dry and mix until incorporated. Do not over mix.
- Fold grated zucchini into mixture.
- Fold chocolate chips into mixture until just mixed. Add in oat milk if mixture seems dry.
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop out 12 muffins into silicone liners sprayed with coconut oil spray.
Expert Tips
- To avoid texture issues with picky eaters, be sure to grate the zucchini on the smallest blade on the shredder you have. You can also peel the green skin from the zucchini before you shred it to mask even more green.
- Consider grinding the almond flour in a food processor prior to mixing the dry ingredients. This will help the batter to be smoother.
- Do not over-mix. Gently mix and stop once the ingredients are incorporated
- To make these with no oil you can sub out unsweetened applesauce or mashed banana. Sub in applesauce or mashed banana and making them without oil will result in a lower fat muffin.
- To make these vegan zucchini muffins, swap out the egg for a flax egg or applesauce.
- Store muffins in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to five days. Reheat in the microwave for 20-30 seconds.
- Muffins may also be frozen and stored in freezer-safe containers for up to 3 months.
- Top with a dab of almond or peanut butter and some extra chocolate chips!
FAQs
No, the zucchini in this recipe is so light and lends such perfect moisture to these muffins without a veggie taste.
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Healthy Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 3 cups almond flour
- ¼ cup gluten-free flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder or cacao powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup coconut sugar or maple syrup
Wet Ingredients
- 3 eggs beaten
- ¼ cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk may add more if dough seems dry
- ½ cup coconut oil melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Other Ingredients
- 1 cup zucchini shredded
- ⅓ cup Enjoy Life Brand chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Place 12 muffin liners into muffin pan and spray with cooking spray.
- Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cocoa powder, cinnamon and salt in a bowl. Use a sifter if you have one.
- Mix egg, coconut oil, almond milk and vanilla extract into a bowl. Stir into dry ingredients until just moistened. Fold in zucchini and chocolate chips.
- Use an ice cream scoop to portion out 12 muffins. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Notes
- To avoid texture issues with picky eaters, be sure to grate the zucchini on the smallest blade on the shredder you have. You can also peel the green skin from the zucchini before you shred it to mask even more green.
- Consider grinding the almond flour in a food processor prior to mixing the dry ingredients. This will help the batter to be smoother.
- Do not over-mix. Gently mix and stop once the ingredients are incorporated.
- To make these with no oil you can sub out unsweetened applesauce or mashed banana. Sub in applesauce or mashed banana and making them without oil will result in a lower fat muffin.
- To make these vegan zucchini muffins, swap out the egg for a flax egg or applesauce.
- Store muffins in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to five days. Reheat in the microwave for 20-30 seconds.
- Muffins may also be frozen and stored in freezer-safe containers for up to 3 months.
