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 spoonfuls 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, whole wheat chocolate muffins? AVOCADO! The healthy fat makes these muffins irresistibly moist but still healthy enough for breakfast!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 ripe avocado
- 1/2 cup agave nectar
- 3/4 cup almond milk (unsweetened)
- 1/3 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/3 cup mini dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350.
- Combine the pastry flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a food processor, blend the avocado, (peeled and pitted of course) 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 12-17 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. (Mine took about 14 minutes.) 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! Don’t forget to pin this recipe for later! No avocados? No problem.
Try these chocolate chip banana muffins!
I didn’t know you could bake with avocados either, but it makes so much sense in that it’s a fat. I like the idea of baking with healthier fats, thanks for the tip!
I love this! Pinning. You’re right, avocados are tricky, but this is just what I need.
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I have always been curious about baking with avocados, and these muffins look delicious! Pinning to keep in mind the next time I have a few that are on the verge! 🙂
This look so rich and chocolatey! Love the addition of avocado in baked treats! Perfect with my coffee right about now 🙂
Look super delicious! I calculated it out, and for 12 normal sized muffins, there are 206.2 calories, 10.7 gram of fat (7.2 grams saturated fat) 29.2 carbs (with 3.1 grams of fiber, so only 26.1 net carbs), 13.6 grams of sugar, and 2.5 grams of protein! Pretty good compared to most double chocolate muffins! I just made a batch and they look and smell heavenly. Can’t wait to see how they taste. 🙂 Thanks for the recipe!
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I have a couple of overripe avocados sitting in my fridge right now. So glad you reminded me how well they go with chocolate. I’ve used them in a chocolate pudding, but baking with those 2 ingredients sounds like the best idea of all with this cold weather we’re having in the northeast/mid-Atlantic right now.
Yummy looking muffins! And a great way to get my kids to eat avocados! I love them but they are super picky 🙁
You are right, they are SO finicky. I’ll have to pin this recipe for the next time I have one going bad 🙂
What a clever way to keep from wasting your avocados! I have to admit that I never thought of using them in baking before, but I will definitely be giving your strategy a try. These sound delicious and very healthy—SCORE!
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These sound great! I have yet to bake with avocado but I think these sound like a good first try for me