Saturday, October 02, 2010

Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins


Get Your Chocolate Fix..
and Your Vegetables All In One Bite!

For a final goodbye to Summer, I decided to make my favorite muffin recipe. I made a few revisions to my original recipe and I think they are even better now! I know the combination of chocolate and zucchini sounds a bit suspicious, but trust me, you do not taste the zucchini at all.
The flavor is very chocolatey and the texture is soft and velvety. Very moist as well, due to the zucchini, of course! What more could you ask for in a muffin? Oh, and by the way, they're somewhat low-fat too!

Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
by Mixed Salad Annie

1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup dutch processed cocoa
1 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. fine sea salt
1/4 cup
butter
1/3 cup extra light olive oil (or canola oil)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
2 eggs
2 tsps. vanilla
6 oz. container "SO Delicious" Cultured Coconut Milk
2 cups grated zucchini (about 2 medium, unpeeled, do not squeeze)
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 375º. Spray non-stick muffin tin with cooking spray or line with paper cups.

Melt the butter in a small bowl in the microwave. Stir in cocoa and heat for another 30 seconds. Set aside to cool.
Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; set aside.

Cream together cocoa butter mixture and sugars in mixing bowl until well combined,
using electric mixer at medium speed. Beat in oil; add coconut milk, then
blend in eggs and vanilla. Slowly add dry ingredients and blend until just combined. Stir in zucchini and chocolate chips with a rubber spatula. Pour batter into prepared muffin tins. If you have extra batter

Decrease oven temperature to 350º.
Bake 19 - 24 minutes, turning pan halfway through. Muffins are done when toothpick inserted into center of muffins comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack for 10 minutes.

6 comments:

MegSmith @ Cooking.In.College said...

These look and sound amazing. What a great combination...two of my favorite things that's for sure!

Thanks for sharing!

Check out my blog, I hope you see something that you like!

Jersey Girl Cooks said...

I have been looking for a chocolate zucchini muffin recipe and I think I found a good one!

Becky's Big Bytes said...

I too, was looking for a good recipe and, no, the choc paired w/ Z is not werd at ALL. They go very well together!! Where do you buy the coconut milk? Can't wait to make these!! Thanks Annie!!

Annie said...

Hi Becky, It's actually a kind of yogurt. It's the SO Delicious Brand sold in Whole Foods. Also keep in mind these are muffins - so they are not very sweet. If you prefer your muffins sweeter just add 1/4 cup more granulated sugar.

http://www.organictables.com said...

This is really nice. I like the color of the muffin. Really delicious looking.

Sean Grey Hanson said...

Sounds amazing! I like the color of that muffin!! EXCELLENT!