Description
Healthy Triple Chocolate Muffins with hidden veggies! Made with wholesome ingredients like eggplants and oatmeal, these vegan chocolate muffins are great for breakfast, snacking and dessert. Gluten free, oil free and refined sugar free.
Ingredients
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- 1 cup cooked eggplant (300g raw, about 258g cooked)
- 1 modified flax egg (1 tbsp flax meal + 2 tbsp water)
- 1/4 cup drippy almond butter (65g)
- 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar (15g)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup maple syrup (80g)
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar (90g)
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips, divided in half (90g)
- 2/3 cup gluten free rolled oats (75g total // 25g kept whole // 50g blended into oat flour)
- 1 cup almond flour (112g // + 1-3 tbsp as needed)
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder (43g)
- 1.5 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 F. Grease or line 9 muffin cups.
- Wash and then slice eggplant into 1 inch chunks. Place on a glass bowl, cover with another plate and microwave for 3-4 minutes on high until soft.
- While the eggplant is still hot, add it into a blender or food processor along with the flax egg, almond butter, maple syrup, coconut sugar, half of the chocolate (45g), balsamic vinegar and vanilla. Blend until smooth and creamy.
- Pour the blended mixture into a large mixing bowl. Then add in the oat flour, oats, almond flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt. Mix until just combined. Depending on how moist your eggplant is, you may need to add 1-3 tbsp extra of almond or oat flour. The batter should be not spoonable, not too thick but also not runny like pancake batter (see video for texture). You could also just add the dry ingredients into the blender except for the rolled oats and blend or mix it in there. Then stir in the rolled oats and remaining chocolate chips.
- Spoon the batter all the way to the top of the muffin liner (about 92-95g each). Bake for 5 minutes and then reduce the temperature back down to 350 F. Bake for another 18-20 minutes. 18 minutes for fudgy muffins and 20 minutes for cake-y muffins.
- Remove from the oven and let it cool in the pan for 2-3 minutes. Transfer them onto a wire rack and let them cool further. Enjoy!
Notes
- Helpful Equipment: food processor or blender, parchment muffin liners, 12 cup muffin tin, spatula, mixing bowls, whisk
- Nutritional Information Disclaimer: Nutrition information is a rough estimate calculated on an online tool (Cronometer).
- Recipe adapted from my chocolate eggplant cake recipe and green smoothie muffins.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 26 minutes
- Category: breakfast
- Method: baking
- Cuisine: vegan, gluten free, north american
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 muffin
- Calories: 283
- Sugar: 22.9g
- Sodium: 146mg
- Fat: 13g
- Saturated Fat: 2.3g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8g
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 37g
- Fiber: 4.5g
- Protein: 6.7g
- Cholesterol: 0