Healthy Chocolate Muffins
Published 7/28/2022 • Updated 8/3/2024
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Make a double batch of these Healthy Chocolate Muffins and store some in the freezer for easy access to healthy muffins.
These chocolate muffins are naturally sweetened, made with white whole wheat flour, and are so moist and delicious!
Best Chocolate Muffins
These healthy chocolate muffins are one of our favorite muffins on Fit Foodie Finds! They are made with whole ingredients, naturally sweetened with bananas, maple syrup, and coconut sugar.
We love whipping up a batch of muffins and sticking half of them in the freezer for later and keeping half out for snacking.
These healthy chocolate muffins are:
- Naturally sweetened with maple syrup and banana.
- Made with 100% whole grain flour.
- Easy to freeze.
- Kid-friendly!
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How are these healthy chocolate muffins?
At Fit Foodie Finds, we like our muffins chock full of the good stuff! We’re talking whole grains, healthy fats, and natural sweeteners. Here’s how these are healthier than normal muffins:
- 100% whole grain
- Naturally sweetened
- Made with coconut oil
Favorite Baking Tools
One thing that will make baking a bit easier for anyone is having the right tools to bake! Below are some of the tools that we use every time we make these chocolate banana muffins and any other healthy muffin recipe on Fit Foodie Finds!
- Different size mixing bowls. We love these nesting bowls from Target because we can have a bowl for dry ingredients and wet ingredients. Our most favorite part of these bowls is that they are dishwasher safe!
- Hearty Muffin Tins. Get a sturdy muffin tin that doesn’t pop in the oven! We like using a nonstick muffin tin!
- Muffin tin liners. There is nothing worse than a dirty muffin tin that you can’t get clean! If you don’t have a nonstick muffin tin, get these reusable silicone muffin liners!
- Cooling Rack. A cooling rack allows your muffins to cool completely without sticking to the muffin tin or your counter!
How to Make Healthy Chocolate Muffins
Baking muffins is a very relaxing and therapeutic activity for me! I love baking days by myself or a baking day with friends. You just can’t beat it.
Sometimes baking can be a scary thing for people because of all of the science. We try to make baking accessible for everyone and I want to assure you that these healthy chocolate muffins are a great recipe to help you reboot your relationship with baking.
- Mix Dry Ingredients: first, combine all dry ingredeints in a medium bowl.
- Mix Wet Ingredients: mash your bananas in a large bowl and then add the rest of the wet ingredients and mix.
- Combine both: combine dry and wet ingredients and then add melted coconut oil. Mix again.
- Transfer: line your muffin tray with muffin liners and then fill each one up 3/4 of the way full.
- Bake: bake at 350ºF for 18-22 minutes.
- Cool: let muffins cool for at least 10 minutes before removing from the pan.
Storage
Let muffins cool completely and then store in a cool, dark place for up to 3 days. Or, store in the fridge for up to 3-5 days.
How to Freeze Muffins
- Let your muffins cool competely.
- Next, transfer muffins onto a baking sheet. Freeze for 1-2 hours. Then, transferr muffins into a gallon-size bag and remove as much air as possible. Seal tightly.
- Freeze for up to 3 months.
Healthy Chocolate Muffins
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1.5 cups white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips, + more for topping
Wet Ingredients
- 1 cup mashed banana*
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- First, preheat oven to 350ºF and line a muffin tin with muffin liners. We suggest also spraying your muffin liners with cooking spray just in case.
- Next, place dry ingredients into a medium bowl and mix.
- Then, in a small bowl, mash 1 large banana. Measure it and add 1 cup to a large bowl.
- Crack 2 eggs into the large bowl and whisk with mashed banana. Add maple syrup, almond milk, and vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and then mix. Then, add in melted coconut oil and mix again.
- Fill each muffin about 3/4 of the way full (these are going to be big muffins) and sprinkle on a few more chocolate chips. Then, place in the oven at 350ºF and bake for 18-22 minutes or until the center is fully cooked.
- Let cool for 5 minutes and then remove from the muffin tin to continue cooling.
Tips & Notes
- *If you don’t like bananas, feel free to use another fruit puree such as applesauce or pumpkin.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Can you use just regular milk instead of almond?
Hi! Just made these now so delicious!! Made a double batch, will send half to my friend who’s just home with her new baby! Used apple sauce instead of bananas as well! Thank you for this recipe it’s a winner!
Um….yes please! These chocolate muffins are DELICIOUS! I made them with unsweetened applesauce rather than the mushed banana. We used half/semisweet and half/milk chocolate chip. My 5 year old and and 3 year old boys also loved them, they both ate two right away. My batch made 18 muffins.
I made these are they are so amazing. I rarely write reviews but it these are amazing
YAY!! Glad you loved them Renita!
These look so good! How could you make them gluten free? Just use a gluten free flour?
We haven’t tried this, but I would recommend a gluten-free all-purpose flour!
How could you swap in almond flour to this recipe?
We wouldn’t suggest swapping almond flour for any kind of glutenous flour!
Try buckwheat flour plus 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum and you will get a great gluten free version.
These muffins look delish! How much unsweetened applesauce do you recommend in place of 1 c mashed banana in case a ripe banana is not readily available?
Hi Donna! 1 cup of applesauce should work just fine!!
The only problem with these muffins is they are so delicious it’s hard to keep portion control. I seriously could eat 4 at one sitting.
RIGHT?! SO GOOD.
Can I use normal all purpose flour instead of wheat flour and honey instead of maple syrup? Tnx
Yes! You can make both of those substitutions!
Just came out of the oven. Delicious! I used brown sugar in place of coconut sugar, adding it to the wet ingredients instead of the dry. I used vegetable oil in place of coconut oil. Necessary swaps since I did not want to go to the store. I made smaller muffins (19 total, baked 16 minutes). Thank you for yet another delicious recipe.
LOVE! Thank you for sharing!