Vegan Chocolate Avocado Muffin Recipe
What’s the secret to these healthy, whole wheat chocolate muffins? Avocado! The healthy fat makes these muffins irresistibly moist but still healthy enough for breakfast!
Avocados are so finicky. They’re hard as a rock and then you blink and they’ve gone bad. Yesterday I found myself with 2 ripe avocados that desperately need to be used. One went to good use as an accompaniment with our quesadillas but the other had a different destiny. This one would find its place in a muffin recipe. Yes, this is an avocado muffin recipe.
How to Bake with Avocados
Since avocados are high in fat, they’re a great substitute for butter or oil. They add plenty of moisture and fat to these muffins, and it’s healthy fat you can feel good about! To bake with avocado, slice the avocado in half, remove the pit, and scoop into a bowl. Mash it first, to make it easy to measure. In this particular recipe, you’ll need a medium-sized avocado, which is about 5 ounces, just over 1/2 cup.
Mix the dry ingredients first. Then add the avocado and liquid ingredients into a blender or food processor.
Blend until the liquid ingredients are smooth, with no lumps. Then mix the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients.
Drop the batter by the spoonful into a mini muffin tin and get baking! Not only are these muffins made with avocado but they’re also made with wholewheat pastry flour, so you get a nice dose of fiber in there. And this recipe doesn’t require any eggs or butter so these muffins are vegan!
Tips for Making Chocolate Avocado Muffins
- Be sure your avocado is soft and ripe. If it’s a rock hard avocado, it’s going to be tough to blend.
- If you want to keep these totally vegan, be sure to use dairy free chocolate chips.
- Wholewheat pastry flour will produce a lighter muffin compared to regular wholewheat flour. If you can’t find wholewheat pastry flour, feel free to substitute all-purpose flour.
Vegan Chocolate Avocado Muffin Recipe
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 20 1x
- Category: Breakfast or Snack
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Vegan
Description
What’s the secret to these healthy, wholewheat chocolate muffins? Avocado! The healthy fat makes these muffins irresistibly moist but still healthy enough for breakfast!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups wholewheat pastry flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 ripe avocado, peeled and pitted
- 1/2 cup agave nectar
- 3/4 cup almond milk
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/3 cup mini dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine the pastry flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a food processor, blend the avocado with the agave, almond milk, coconut oil, and vanilla.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
- It might be a bit lumpy but just make sure you don’t have dry pockets of flour.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Spoon the mixture into a mini muffin tin. Mine made about 20 mini muffins.
- Bake for 14-16 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. Do not over bake or they’ll dry out and be more crumbly rather than fudgey.
Keywords: Avocado muffins
I had one (ok, two) of these right out of the oven but I think they were actually even better when I had one later on in the day. Just make sure you keep the leftovers in an airtight container.
Warning: these are so addicting. At least they’re made with whole grains & healthy fats! Still have too many avocados? Try making this creamy green smoothie!
If you’re looking for more muffin ideas, try these vegan blueberry muffins!
I followed the recipe exactly, except used 1 cup ap flour and 1 cup ww.
The texture for these is quite nice, but i don’t find them very flavourful. Good enough for little kid lunches but not my personal favorites. BTW the recipe made 24 mini muffins + 2 regular sized.
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Husband’s favourite! 5 star! Thank you for this recipe.
Yay! I’m so happy to hear that!
Amazing recipe! I made this the other day and they’re so good! Still so good even after days! You may put them in the microwave for 10 seconds for extra moist and chewy texture. Love it! Thank you!
Thank you for this amazing recipe! I made these today to use leftover avocados and the muffins turn out DELICIOUS. I will be definitely make these again.
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Really tasty! I’ve made these twice since finding this recipe last week. My picky boys all loved them. First time I made the recipe as is. Delicious. Second time, I made some adjustments (only because I enjoy playing with recipes). I put all the wet ingredients in my blender plus the avocado and also added 1cup fresh spinach as well (with an extra 1/4cup soy milk). I also added 1/4cup hemp hearts to to the batter. Still kid approved and tasty!
Thanks for a good recipe!
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Made these today and they were AMAZING! I followed the recipe, doubled it, and it made 24 regular size muffins. Thank you!
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Yay!! I’m so glad you liked them!
I tried baking these today and when I saw 3/4 of baking soda thought it was a bit much. So I continued with the ingredients and when I started to scoop the batter into the muffin pan I had a taste of it and I gagged Of how much it tasted like just baking soda. Am I doing something wrong? Please help!
3/4 tsp….. that’s not much
These are delicious! Have you ever attempted to freeze them? If so, how’d they turn out?
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I have never baked with avocado but do love them. This recipe looks wonderful. I will have to give this a try.
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