Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
2011
Do you have a ton of zucchini in your garden and you are running out of ideas of what to make with them? Make these muffins – you won’t be disappointed! I haven’t made these in a long time I forgot how good they are.
This recipe is my adaptation of Heidi from 101 Cookbooks. I printed out the recipe, but then gasped when I saw it called for 1/4 cup melted butter + 3/4 cup of oil! Not figure friendly! So I decided to tweak the recipe to make it healthier. This is my version 
I made 6 Giant muffins + 24 mini muffins. Each giant muffin is only 217 calories!
Chocolate zucchini muffins by Jenn/Adapted from 101 Cookbooks
1 cup unpacked brown sugar
1/4 cup Canola oil
1 egg + 2 egg whites
1 banana, mashed
1 container yogurt (the one I used was vanilla at 90 calories)
1/4 cup ground flax seed
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups grated zucchini (squeezed of excess moisture)
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
2 cups flour
1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. banking soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
In a mixer, mix together the wet ingredients. In a separate bowl add the dry ingredients. Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet batter and mix until incorporated.
For the mini muffins, I baked those at 375 for about 10 minutes.
For the Jumbo muffins, also bake them at 375 for 20-22 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
These muffins taste like chocolate cake!
Things I did to make them healthier:
Lessened the brown sugar by 1/2 a cup and did not pack down the brown sugar
Used only 1/4 cup canola oil vs. butter and 3/4 cup oil
Used 1 egg + 2 egg whites instead of 3 eggs
Used skim milk in place of whole milk
Cut the chocolate chips in half
Added the banana
Added yogurt
Added ground flax seed
Cut the cocoa in half
You won’t miss the changes at all!
Are you growing zucchini? What is your favorite thing to make with it?
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Oh yum, these look great. Thanks for making them more healthy for us. These will make good lunch box treats!
Jacky recently posted..July Summer Reading
on the try list!!! thanks for tweaking it!
renee@mykitchenadventures recently posted..Easy Potato Gnocchi
I have a bag of zucchini in the freezer – maybe I’ll make these?
Got the pop chip coupon and bought a bag today! Thanks again!
Ally – glad you got the coupon!
Ally @ Sweet & Savory recently posted..Beef and Mushroom Ragu
I am glad to see you healthified those muffins. They look scrumptious. I always have so many left over zucchini and yellow squash. Gonna try it with some of the yellow squash
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You don’t say what size of a container of yoghurt that you used…could you please specify?