Sugar Free Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Sugar Free Chocolate Zucchini Muffins, a simple no added sugar recipe for double chocolate zucchini muffins made from scratch.
Servings: 12
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2¼ cups Flour.
- ½ cup Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Soda.
- 1 tsp Instant Espresso Powder
- ¾ cup Sugar Alternative. --Use a granular sugar alternative that measures like sugar and that can also be baked with.
- 2 Eggs.
- ½ cup Oil. --Use a neutral oil such as vegetable oil.
- ¼ cup Greek Yogurt. --Use 'plain' yogurt that has no added sugar.
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract.
- 2 cups Zucchini. -Shredded fine no need to drain!.
- ¾ cup Sugar Free Chocolate Baking Chips. - Plus additional for topping.
Instructions
- Prepare. Prepare your ingredients as indicated. This includes shredding your zucchini. Also, prepare your muffin pan for nonstick and preheat your oven to 350f.
- Dry Ingredients. In a medium bowl, use a whisk or strainer/sifter to combine together the flour, unsweetened cocoa powder, baking powder, and espresso powder.
- Wet Ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the eggs, oil, yogurt and vanilla extract until combined. Then beat in the sugar alternative until smooth and combined.
- Combine. Add the dry ingredients from the first bowl to the mixing bowl and mix until just combined. Then scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl.
- Zucchini.Use a rubber spatula or similar item to fold in your shredded zucchini to the ingredients in the large mixing bowl until combined. Then fold in the chocolate chips.
- Bake. Transfer the batter to your prepared muffin cups, filling each cup about ⅔rds full. You can add a few extra chocolate chips to the tops of the muffins if desired. Then bake your muffins for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean in the center of two of the muffins and the tops of the muffins spring back when lightly touched.
- Cool. Let the muffins cool for a few minutes in the pan before transferring them to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Recipe Notes
*Please check the nutritional labels to assure that you are sticking to your diet restrictions for any substitutions used.
Also, please see the actual recipe post for further details on this recipe. Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that are used. See thesugarfreediva.com for details on this recipe.
Also, please see the actual recipe post for further details on this recipe. Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that are used. See thesugarfreediva.com for details on this recipe.
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Nutrition
Calories: 246kcal | Carbohydrates: 35g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.04g | Cholesterol: 27mg | Sodium: 96mg | Potassium: 153mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 81IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 40mg | Iron: 2mg
Please note: Nutritional data has been calculated using a tool that comes with this recipe card and not by me. This means that Nutritional Information is only an estimate and can vary especially with ingredients that you use. The accuracy of this tool may differ from other tools as expected. Also note that there is no instructional value to the video that may be attached to this recipe. It is only there for visual pleasure. For more information about the images in this recipe, please refer the the recipe instructions. Thank you!
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