Chocolate Zucchini Muffins Recipe
This Chocolate Zucchini Muffins Recipe is a perfect snack or dessert that is moist, made zucchini and chocolate chips. These zucchini muffins are perfect baked, frozen, and served anytime. We love to use fresh garden zucchini!
Oh, I love a good, moist muffin, hot out of the oven! These moist Chocolate Zucchini Muffins are rich, delicious, and loaded with mini chocolate chips. They are great for a snack, but also a yummy breakfast muffin.
Chocolate Zucchini Muffins Recipe
If you have extra zucchinis on your counter right now or you just want to pick up a few extras at the store next time you go, you definitely want to make these double chocolate zucchini muffins! Chocolate in the batter with chocolate chips!
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Your kids won’t even know they are eating zucchini! Where you think chocolate may be the star of this recipe, it’s really the shredded zucchini that makes the muffins so moist. My mom used to stuff it into so many recipes when I was a kid, like her zucchini cake and zucchini salsa.
Why I love this recipe
- A nutritious way to start the day!
- Perfect snack or dessert for school lunches, sharing with kids’ teachers, or bringing to a family in need.
- I love to double and triple the recipe (with so much summer zucchini) and pop in the freezer!
Gather these ingredients
We used gluten free flour and Bobs’ Redmill gluten-free oats!
- Flour + sugar
- Chopped walnuts, optional
- Quick oats
- Baking powder + salt + cinnamon
- Cocoa
- Eggs
- Shredded zucchini
- Canola oil
- Chocolate chips
How do you make Chocolate Zucchini Muffins?
- Grease 24 muffin cups.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Grate the zucchini and lay it on a paper towel; press down to remove any of the water.
- Mix first flour, sugar, nuts, oats, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cocoa in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs slightly with a fork. Stir in (squeezed) zucchini and oil. Add the chocolate chips.
- Pour in the dry ingredients and mix until moistened. (Batter will be thick and lumpy).
- Divide evenly between your muffin cups.
- Bake 16-18 minutes.
Tips and substitutions:
- Make ahead and freeze!
- Pull from the freezer another time, for a quick dessert to share with others!
- Muffins are the perfect food item to bring or share with others (and yummy for back to school)!
- Don’t forget to squeeze the water out of the zucchini when you make these.
- Add your favorite nuts. (We love walnuts, but I didn’t include nuts in this recipe because I wasn’t sure of dietary needs.)
- I also used gluten-free oats and flour!
- If you are not a cinnamon fan, you can leave out the cinnamon.
How do you serve zucchini banana muffins?
Bake and serve! Oh, and frost if you want (mm-m-m … maple frosting)!
Or, if you love chocolate muffins, try these Double Chocolate Banana Muffins or these Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins.
More muffin recipes:
- Black Forest Chocolate Chunk Muffins
- Sour Cream Bran Muffins
- Zucchini Maple Cupcakes
- Zucchini Banana Muffins
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Chocolate Zucchini Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 medium zucchini, finely shredded (approx. 2 cups)
- 2 ½ cup all-purpose flour, I used gluten-free
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup chopped walnuts, optional
- ½ cup quick oats, I used Bobs’ Redmill gluten-free
- 1 Tbsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- ½ cup cocoa
- 4 eggs
- ¾ cup canola oil
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips, or 2 cups if you like
Instructions
- Grease 24 muffin cups. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Grate the zucchini and lay it on a paper towel; press down to remove any of the water.
- Mix first flour, sugar, nuts, oats, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and cocoa in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs slightly with a fork. Stir in (squeezed) zucchini and oil. Add the chocolate chips.
- Pour in the dry ingredients and mix until moistened. (Batter will be thick and lumpy).
- Divide evenly between your muffin cups. Bake 16-18 minutes.
Notes
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Do you know how many calories these are? I used 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips and regular flour. I also didn’t have quick oats so pulsed my regular oats in the food processor for a bit. They are delish! I will post my photo on IG later. I didn’t frost them as they are great and super moist just as they are.
Yum. My mom used to always make chocolate zucchini bread. I have a zucchini in need of using, maybe I’ll whip these up when we get home from vacation.
I love this post. I love kindness and doing things for others practically. I love that we’ve taught our daughters the same thing. Bringing meals is one of my favorite things to do. The other day my daughter and her friend went to the coffee house in Sunriver and she asked the barista where the tip jar was. I don’t remember if they had one but somehow she put money in it and the waitress looked and said “wait, is that all for us” and my daughter said yes. The barista was surprised at her generosity. But my girls have always been that way. They have tipped waitresses way above and beyond what they even ordered because they want to bless them. They even had a waitress follow them out of a restauarant to thank them. What teenagers regularly tip generously…not many. My daughter, being a barista herself, knows how much tips can mean. My oldest daughter who is now married loves offering to bring meals for people and they regularly have young people in their home, sometimes staying the night(s). She learned that by watching us over the years.
One year we were in Hood River and on the tip jar each employee wrote what their tips were going towards…it was so cute. One girl who was working was going to buy an umbrella to take to college….we left, went to the store and bought her a cute umbrella and a card. She loved it. It’s fun loving people in tangible ways that show we care, that we’ve listened to them, that hear their hearts.
Right now we have a friend living on our property temporarily in a tiny house because he just needs some help getting back on his feet. will it be interesting? sure. Will the county shake it’s finger and say can’t happen? maybe, but we’ll cross that bridge when it comes. Right now he’s a guy who needs some love, friendship and a chance to get on his feet. We’ve put boundaries in place so that it is as enjoyable for everyone as possible.
Okay got long winded, but this topic is definitely dear to my heart.
So much great stuff here, thanks for sharing Kirstin! Love the last story, too. Love and friendship … it will pay off! :)