Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Got lots of zucchini? Bake up a batch of these decadent double chocolate zucchini muffins! So moist and tender, with pockets of melty chocolate chips running all throughout!
‘Tis the season!
How are your vegetable gardens doing? Our berry bushes are suffering the ravages of a Japanese beetle infestation (next year: grub control and neem oil in spring) but our basil is on fire and we are completely overrun with zucchini.
There are definitely worse problems to be had in life!
Really it’s not a problem at all. Even when someone drops by your husband’s office to share a big grocery bag full, despite the fact you’ve already got seven of them on your kitchen counter. Because there are so many delicious things to be done with zucchini.
Every year, right around this time, I get a mean craving for double chocolate zucchini muffins. Tall, fluffy, and tender, full of deep chocolate flavor and moist as can be from all that fresh, seasonal zucchini. With big pockets of melty chocolate running all throughout. Swoon!
I’ve tried a few different recipes over the years but none of them have quite measured up to my standards. I’m a tough one to please!
So I decided to come up with my own recipe and here it is.
I think you will love it. I do. My family does. We have been making these every weekend for the last month and we have no intention of stopping any time soon.
As long as our garden keeps cranking out the zucchini, I’ll keep cranking out these muffins. And they’ll keep eating them, because they’re everything anyone could ever want in a chocolate zucchini muffin.
Moist? Check. Chocolate-y? Uber-check. Tender? As a baby lamb. And puffy-fluffy as a soft, steamy chocolate cloud.
So, next time someone drops by with a big bag of home-grown zucchini from their backyard garden, you know just what to do.
Enjoy!
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Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
Ingredients
- 3 cups (375 g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (43 g) cocoa, (I used a combination of dark cocoa and regular unsweetened cocoa powder)
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon (0.75 teaspoon) kosher salt
- 3/4 cup (135 g) semi sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup (113.5 g) unsalted butter, (1 stick), melted and cooled slightly
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (200 g) plain Greek yogurt
- 3 tablespoons milk
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (1.5 teaspoons) vanilla extract
- 1 medium zucchini, shredded (about 1 cup)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F and lightly mist a muffin pan with non-stick spray.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt together.
- Add the chocolate chips.
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir the melted butter, sugar, Greek yogurt, milk, eggs, vanilla, and zucchini together.
- Add this to the dry ingredients, and fold together until just barely combined (overworking the batter could result in tough muffins).
- Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and bake for 5 minutes, then turn the oven temperature down to 350 degrees F and bake for an additional 16-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the thickest part of a muffin comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
Chocolate and zucchini go so well together! One of my favorite muffins when I have a ton of zucchini to use.
this is such great idea1!!
I actually just had someone bring me a whole pile of zucchini, and now I know what I’m going to make!
These are such a delicious way to use up zucchini! They look amazing!!
Ooooh I am going to try these with my girls! Got some zucchini to use up!
What delicious muffins! And a fantastic way to use up zucchini!
Love love love these muffins!! How many calories are they?
Yummly.com is telling me 330. Hope you enjoy!
Love zucchini anything …to remove excess moisture from grated zucchini for baking… use coffee filters ..better than paper towel ..
That is such a great tip! Thanks so much for sharing Sylvia!
So if you could just pass that whole pan my way, that’d be great! These seriously look so scrumptious, I can’t imagine a better way to get my daily serving of veggies 😉
Hehe love it! Thanks so much for the great feedback Sam! Hope you’re having a fun week 🙂
Sadly, I don’t have a garden this year! Had to give up on it because growing plants in Colorado is such a challenge!! But that won’t stop me from making these super delicious looking muffins!! 🙂
Oh dear I am so sorry! But I’m glad you like the muffin recipe and I hope you can get your hands on some zucchini at the supermarket. Have a great week sweetie!
My zucchini is slow growing this year. The second they are ready to harvest, I must try these muffins!
Oh that’s interesting! I wonder why that is. Our zucchini is going crazy but our tomatoes- we’re still waiting. Well I’m glad you like the muffin recipe and thanks so much for reading and commenting! Have a great week, dear!
These have got to be my favorite chocolate muffins !!!! Those melted chocolate chips inside the muffins are making me DROOL!!!!!
I love that too Samina! Thank you so much sweetie and have a great week! xo
Just wondering if I can incorporate bananas (ripen,) into your zucchini chocolate muffins?
Sounds delicious and I think it would work well! You may want to cut back on the sugar just a little bit because the bananas will have a natural sweetness to them. Good luck and enjoy!
I love baking with zucchini – especially when there’s chocolate involved! These look great!
I do too Bethany! I’m so happy you like these; thanks so much for the great feedback!
Hi Allie, this is great. I hope you bring it over to Food on Friday: Free For All. Cheers from Carole’s Chatter
These muffins are so pretty! Loving how huge and full of chocolate they are 🙂
I love that too Medha! Thanks so much dear and I hope your week is off to a great start!
Love these muffins, Allie!!!!
Thank you so much Alice! Hope you’re having a great week, love!
Wow! These muffins look so perfect, Allie! I’m loving the use of zucchini!
Thank you so much Jen! We are having to get really creative with zucchini over here- there’s just so much of it!
YUM! I’m such a fan of zucchini muffins – they’re just the best. I love that you made these with greek yogurt too! Plus, they look really beautiful!
Thanks Rachel! I love baking with Greek yogurt- it keeps the batter so nice and thick and helps everything to puff up so beautifully in the oven. Hope you’re having a great day so far!