These healthful Chocolate Lover’s Muffins are made with none butter or oil, nonetheless so tender and flavourful that you simply simply merely’d by no means have the flexibleness to tell! Greek yogurt and applesauce help defend them moist, whereas a double dose of chocolate makes them model large decadent. A healthful and delicious determination to fulfill these chocolate cravings!

This week has unofficially flip into Chocolate Week right correct proper right here on Spoons.
And no, it has nothing to do with that one week considerably that us girls must take care of every month. Or perhaps it does; who’s conscious of. Hormones are a crazy issue.
Each method! I’ve nonetheless but another delicious chocolate recipe to share with you guys right this second, solely this time it’s accessible in the type of muffins. Healthful chocolate lover’s muffins to be precise…

Major? Sure. Nonetheless all of us loves chocolate muffins, and in consequence, all of us wants a healthful chocolate muffin recipe of their arsenal. Bonus elements if it has double the chocolate.

I’m undecided if I ever instructed you guys this, nonetheless I exploit mini chocolate chips in just about 99.99% of the recipes I make… and it’s not solely on account of they’re method cuter.
Presumably I’m a freak for noticing components like this, nonetheless I merely uncover that the mini chips are SO considerably elevated at evenly distributing the chocolate flavour in regardless of they happen to be in. Know what I level out? Like… as an alternative of biting into an ceaselessly chocolate chip and getting hit with this huge burst of flavour, you’ve acquired a subtler nonetheless steadier present of chocolate in every chunk. It’s perfection.
ALSO! Mini chips maintain putwhich suggests whilst you sprinkle them on prime of a muffin, they maintain on prime of the muffinAND look lots prettier doing it…

So now that we’ve acquired all that out of top-of-the-line strategies, let’s converse regarding the fabulous chocolate muffins that dwelling these mini chocolate chips, eh?
Like most of my completely fully completely different extra healthful muffins, these ones are made with none butter or oil, nonetheless they maintain large mushy and tender ensuing from a mixture of Greek yogurt, applesauce, and honey.
The muffins themselves are naturally sweetened, nonetheless they gained’t be 100% refined-sugar-free furthermore you use chocolate chips which have been sweetened with stevia or xylitol. OR you perhaps can sub out the chocolate chips for some darkish chocolate chunks on account of #antioxidants.
No matter which method you choose to play it, these healthful chocolate lover’s muffins are an surroundings pleasant reply to fulfill these chocolate cravings… whether or not or not or not or not they’re yours or one completely different express specific individual’s!

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Healthful Chocolate Lover’s Muffins
Full Time:
27 minutes
Yield:
12 muffins 1x
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350F (176C) and put collectively a muffin pan by lining the cavities with paper liners or greasing them with cooking spray or oil. Put apart.
- In a vast mixing bowl, whisk collectively the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and baking soda. Put apart.
- In a separate bowl, beat the egg until it turns into barely frothy previous to whisking contained within the yogurt, honey, applesauce, and vanilla.
- Slowly add the moist elements to the dry elements, mixing gently until merely blended. Fold contained within the chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter evenly among the many many many many 12 muffin cups, filling each until they’re about 3/4 of top-of-the-line strategies full. Excessive with additional chocolate chips, if desired.
- Bake for 17-19 minutes, or until the tops of the muffins are agency to the contact and a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clear. Allow the muffins to sit once more contained within the pan for ~10 minutes previous to transferring them to a wire rack to sit once more completely. Retailer them in an airtight container at room temperature for as fairly a bit as 5 days, or freeze for as fairly a bit as 3 months.
Notes
* You could perhaps moreover make these with all goal flour or use a mix of 1/2 cup (60 g) full wheat and three/4 cup (90 g) all goal. ** You could perhaps moreover use a vanilla Greek yogurt when you occur to love components barely sweeter. *** In case you occur to don’t have any applesauce accessible, you could moreover use an equal amount of mashed banana.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Put collectively dinner Time: 17 minutes

Trying to find extra healthful chocolate muffin recipes? Try one amongst these!
Double Chocolate Greek Yogurt Muffins
Flourless Double Chocolate Chip Muffins
Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Chocolate Banana Minute Muffin
Flourless Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
