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Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

August 14, 2016 by Laura 25 Comments

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You know you’ve got a fabulous recipe when your 14-year old son takes a bite of a fresh Chocolate Zucchini Muffin and says, “Hmm. Great texture.” Or maybe I’ve just got a fabulous 14-year old son. This is a given.

zucchini muffins

Here’s a pic of this amazing kid at church camp this summer. Yes, the girls have noticed him. Every single girl has noticed. Let’s go back to talking about the muffins.

Elias at camp 2016

These muffins are “moist like a cupcake.” Again – the description of my 14-year old.

The original recipe I had for these muffins called for one full cup of sugar and (brace yourself) an entire bag of chocolate chips. An entire bag. Not only am I not interested in adding that amount of sugar to the healthy and necessary meal I like to call “breakfast” – I’m also way too cheap. Would you like a little muffin with those chocolate chips?

With proportions like that, you might think that cutting the sugar so drastically as I did might turn out a boring and inedible muffin. But allow me to remind you of the teenager’s comment from above, that these muffins are “like a cupcake.” This from someone who would never have argued with me if I had chosen to dump an entire bag of chocolate chips into my muffin mix. He didn’t even know what he was missing.

He also didn’t know he was eating zucchini.

When writing this recipe for you, I shared a range of measurements for the sugary ingredients. Your family might prefer these muffins to be a bit sweeter, in which case you’ll want to go with the 1/2 cup portion of sugar and chocolate chips. Either way, the muffins will turn out amazing. You know – moist like a cupcake.

Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini MuffinsYum

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
 
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Author: Laura
Serves: 12
Ingredients
  • 1½ cups whole wheat flour
  • ¼ cup sucanat or brown sugar
  • ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon sea salt
  • 1½ cups shredded zucchini
  • 2 eggs
  • ½ cup coconut oil
  • ¼ - ½ cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Mix together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder, and salt.
  2. Stir in shredded zucchini, eggs, and oil until well combined.
  3. Fold in chocolate chips.
  4. Scoop into 12 prepared muffin tins.
  5. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 20-25 minutes.
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Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Muffins

I like to use Enjoy Life Soy Free Chocolate Chips when possible. :)

Enjoy these muffins for a Back-to-School breakfast or as an after school snack. Need more breakfast ideas? Find 60 Make Ahead Breakfast ideas in this post.

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Filed Under: Bread and Breakfast Tagged With: coconut oil, healthy recipe, real food, whole wheat, zucchini muffins

Comments

  1. Cynthia says

    August 14, 2016 at 7:38 pm

    This recipe looks and sounds great. I try to cut down on sugar intake, but still want a “healthy” treat. You list coconut oil as an ingredient. I use the “smelly” kind and the “non-smelly” kind. The virgin coconut oil, AKA the smelly kind does give a sweet taste so I can cut down the sugar amount. I was wondering what kind of coconut oil do you use, or did you use in this recipe? Not the brand, just the kind. Thanks.

    Reply
    • Laura says

      August 15, 2016 at 2:37 pm

      I use the virgin oil in this, so the smelly kind. :)

      Reply
  2. mrs.p says

    August 15, 2016 at 7:21 am

    Great timing. I will be making this today depending on the humidity.

    Reply
  3. Cecelia says

    August 15, 2016 at 9:20 am

    When you say shredded zucchini, you do mean the green skin/peel of the zucchini as well as the white inner “meat”? I’ve rarely used this vegetable in any cooking so wasn’t sure.

    Reply
    • Charlotte Moore says

      August 15, 2016 at 9:35 am

      I always grate the whole zucchini when I use it for bread or muffins.

      Reply
    • Laura says

      August 15, 2016 at 10:08 am

      I don’t peel it – I grate it skin and all!

      Reply
    • K Ann Guinn says

      August 17, 2016 at 2:15 pm

      I think the little green flecks (of skin), are one of the nice things about baking with zucchini, plus veggie skins usually contain a lot of the nutrients, so I’m with Charlotte and Laura……skin ON!

      Reply
  4. Whitney says

    August 15, 2016 at 10:11 am

    I want to try these out!

    Reply
  5. Molly says

    August 15, 2016 at 12:04 pm

    What can I substitute for the coconut oil? Allergic…

    Reply
    • Laura says

      August 15, 2016 at 2:36 pm

      Butter should work just fine!

      Reply
  6. Adrian says

    August 15, 2016 at 4:02 pm

    My bro (who is also 14) loves chocolate zucchini bread, so this is on my to make list. Btw, that is a “fabulous” picture of Elias!

    Reply
  7. kentuckylady717 says

    August 16, 2016 at 9:14 pm

    I’d say your son is fabulous too…..he is so good looking….. no wonder all the girls noticed him :)

    These muffins look delicious….

    Have a question tho, is this chocolate caffeine free ? I checked it on Amazon and even chatted with someone and they could not tell me if it was caffeine free or not…….that should be listed on the pkg.

    Reply
    • Laura says

      August 20, 2016 at 10:01 am

      It likely has a small amount of caffeine in it. :)

      Reply
  8. K Ann Guinn says

    August 17, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Absolutely PERFECT timing on this wonderful muffin recipe. We get a farm share, and this summer I actually work on that farm, so we are inundated with zucchini!!! My sons don’t love it on it’s own, but really like it baked into almost anything. And with chocolate…..it doesn’t get any better than this! I have lots to use (while the rest will have to be grated and frozen for later), so I’m really looking forward to making these this week. Thanks for another great (get it? “grated zucchini?), recipe!

    Reply
  9. Michelle Ott says

    August 17, 2016 at 7:57 pm

    This was timely! I had just decided to make Zucchini muffins and this was in my newsfeed! I baked these today – the only addition I made was a handful or two of pumpkin seeds. They are so moist and the perfect sweetness. My little kiddos gobbled them up. I was lazy and used my Blendtec to “grate” my zucchini!

    Reply
  10. Suz says

    August 18, 2016 at 3:41 pm

    I just made these and we all LOVE them! And believe it or not – I did not have any zucchini on me when I got the urge – so, I substituted pumpkin instead and they came out fantastic; very fudgy and chocolaty, but not overly sweet. Just thought you’d like to know since pumpkin season is next up.. Thank you!

    Reply
  11. Sandra says

    August 19, 2016 at 5:44 pm

    These look fabulously delicious and with your son’s kudos they must be good. (He’s a cutie by the way!) My question is – how do you think these would work making them gluten free. I have Mama’s Coconut Blend GF Flour and Mama’s Almond Blend, SunFlour Mills GF pastry flour, SunFlour Mills bread flour, and also several non-blended GF subs, like plain almond flour, quinoa flour, white rice flour, potato starch, potato flour, arrowroot. I also have xanthan gum powder on hand if needed. I have butter, ghee, coconut oil and avocado oil on hand for fats (also bacon lard but I think it would be too salty). I have coconut milk if needed and I use chia goo for egg subs which usually works well in baked goods (so far). Yes, we have to substitute for both wheat and eggs which can make for interesting attempts to recreate standard recipes. Anyway, I wanted to ask what you may suggest for best substitutes for a GF egg free recipe (and I figured listing my ingredients might help make that easier). Thanks in advance (and thanks for reading this wordy comment!) :)

    Reply
    • Laura says

      August 20, 2016 at 10:04 am

      Yikes, I really don’t know since I don’t have much experience with GF flour blends, and I really am inexperienced with subbing eggs. Whatever you typically use to replace whole wheat should work okay, I think. Let us know what you decide and how they turn out!

      Reply
  12. Cynthia says

    August 27, 2016 at 5:12 pm

    Hi. I made these today. I used the virgin coconut oit, cause it know that helps to add sweetness. I used the smaller amount of brown sugar. They were sweet enough for me, but my husband would’ve preferred a little more sweetness. My problem was they were dry. I mill my own flour. Typically 1 cup of the whole wheat berries equals 1 1/2 cups flour. I don’t measure the flour. But I’m wondering if I should from now on as they were dry tasting. And you could see the shredded zuchinni. I have a WonderMill. Anyone else experience this problem?

    Reply
    • Laura says

      August 27, 2016 at 6:50 pm

      Yes, sounds like you might want to cut down the flour just a bit. I shredded my zucchini in my food processor so they were quite tiny pieces and rather liquidy. That might have made a difference in moisture level too. :)

      Reply
      • Cynthia says

        August 27, 2016 at 7:09 pm

        Thanks. I used the old manual type grater. Next time I’ll use my magic bullet or ninja and see how that works. Thanks! They do taste good. And I love how you’re posting low sugar recipes!

        Reply
    • Tara says

      October 7, 2016 at 11:14 am

      I found the batter extremely dry.
      I grated the zucchini with a grater also, and I squeezed out about a teaspoon of liquid.
      The batter was so dry I couldn’t even incorporate all the flour. I ended up adding about a cup of milk, just so i could bake them.
      I thought I had missed an ingredient or something.

      Reply
      • Mrs. Brooks says

        January 7, 2017 at 8:16 am

        I had the same issue, the batter was incredibly dry. How did they turn out with the addition of milk?

        Reply
  13. Tracy Nicks says

    April 14, 2020 at 9:35 am

    Made these with sprouted whole wheat white flour used 1 1/4 cups instead of 1 1/2, grated the zucchini in my food processor and didn’t dump any liquid off, used coconut palm sugar, and the mix was still dry. I added about 1/2 cup buttermilk and they were fantastic!

    Reply
    • Bethany Lotulelei says

      April 15, 2020 at 9:49 am

      Excellent! Sounds great!

      -Bethany (HH Team)

      Reply

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