Chocolate Avocado Muffins
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. I even use them in my chocolate avocado cookies! 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 the avocado flesh 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 whole wheat 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.
- Whole wheat pastry flour will produce a lighter muffin compared to regular whole wheat flour. If you can’t find whole wheat 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.
If you still have too many avocados, try making this creamy green smoothie or try this avocado feta dip.
These look great! Is it possible to make them gluten free as well? I might just have to try and see how it goes…
I’m not sure actually! I’ve had good luck with the Enjoy Life gluten free blends so maybe try that flour?
I love avocados and muffins- perfect combo! I can’t wait to try! Pinned. Thanks for sharing!
This sounds SO delicious!! YUMMY! 🙂
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Love avocado and chocolate so these are a must. They looked great.
Bev
yessssssss. I made a chocolate avocado muffin a few years ago (a friend’s recipe)… I LOVED them, need to have them again. I will try this one, yum!
Never tried muffins with avocado. Awesome. Bookmarking.
I never keep avocados in my house long enough to bake with them but I need to buy a few extra to make these muffins. You can’t go wrong with chocolate and these would be great for breakfast or snack!
I hardly ever have extra either because I hate wasting them but now I feel like I can buy a whole bag because I have this for back up! Haha
YUMMY! I am always hiding stuff in muffins and I bet I could get the hubs to eat some avocado if I fed him these : ) Pinning the recipe NOW!
WOW! I’ve been obsessed with making muffins for the week and these sound so delicious and healthy.
But seriously avocados – is there anything you cannot do?!
They really are the best!!