These delicious Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins start out a lot like my Double Chocolate Zucchini Muffins, because this recipe actually came first!
After I played around with it and got this recipe to where I loved it, I decided to modify it for a more chocolatey version, because you can never have too much chocolate right? I think so! If you love these, you’ll love the double chocolate version and vice versa!
Go ahead and give both of them a try, especially if you have a freezer stocked with shredded zucchini like I do! Zucchini has been my favourite veggie to grow in our garden, it’s so versatile and we use it all year long.
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup ground flax
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 egg lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup applesauce
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 Tbs lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup shredded zucchini
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease muffin cups or use paper liners
Combine flours, flax, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt into a bowl. Mix egg, oil, milk, lemon juice, and vanilla extract into another bowl.
Stir wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just moistened. Fold in zucchini, chocolate chips and walnuts.
Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full.
Bake in preheated oven for 20-25 min or until toothpick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 272Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 16mgSodium: 214mgCarbohydrates: 36gFiber: 3gSugar: 21gProtein: 5g
Nutrition information is estimated based on the ingredients and cooking instructions as described in each recipe and is intended to be used for informational purposes only. Please note that nutrition details may vary based on methods of preparation and origin of ingredients used.
Store muffins in an airtight container at room temperature or make a double batch and store some in the freezer for busy weekday mornings.
How to Freeze Muffins
Muffins are freezer friendly!
- Cool muffins completely.
- To freeze, wrap securely in foil or place in freezer bags. Label all packages with the name of the recipe and the date.
- When ready to use, pull muffins out of freezer and thaw completely at room temperature, or heat frozen muffins in the microwave to eat right away.
- To microwave, place unwrapped muffin on microwave-safe paper towel or plate. Microwave on HIGH about 30 seconds for each muffin.
I love these Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins for breakfast, but they are also a perfect mid morning snack with a cup of tea.
Kids love these muffins because you can’t taste the zucchini in the muffins, but it gives them the best texture that is soft, moist, and delicious. You can also leave the nuts out and send them in your kids school lunch bag.
If you are a fan of baking with zucchini, you might also like to try this Chocolate Zucchini Bread recipe as well!
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SOunds great! I love the sub of apple sauce for half of the oil!
I love those muffins. Delicious. Make them all the time
These muffins look delish! I love all the healthy ingredients. Thank you!
I had to tweak with a few recipes to try to make them a little healthier, and I use flax whenever I can with baking!
Way more ingredients than I would anticipate here fir this one. I love chocolate and zucchini combination so I can only imagine how tasty these are.
I love that I always have all those ingredients on hand. I keep frozen shredded zucchini in my freezer, so I can make these any time!
Looks delicious! I love anything zucchini for baking – will have to try this one for my boys’ lunch.
I keep the nuts out during the school year so my boys can take these in school lunches
Sounds truly delicious … I could see myself gobbling the entire batch! Chocolate zucchini is an awesome combination; can’t wait to try them.
I make these sometimes. I love the taste combo. With Fall here maybe I will make some more
Wow they sound delicious! I’m bookmarking this with good intentions to make some soon…
Yum! These look great.
I love zucchini muffins! And these ones have chocolate chips!!!
Wow never thought to make muffins with zucchini!
I have had bread like these. these zucchini muffins would be great.
these are great. we make the same using bananas.
these muffins sound delicious, can’t wait to try them 🙂
I love making these zuchinni muffins because they are moist and delicious and the flax seed is so beneficial to our health.Thanks for posting this recipe.
I love adding flax to my baking! These muffins are so good!
I’m always overwhelmed with tons of zucchini every fall so this recipe will come in handy. They look delicious!
you probably already do it, but definitely freeze the zucchini too. I love being able to bake with zucchini in the winter!
Yum! Love zucchini muffins.
Yum! What a great way to use up all those extra zucchini! Harvest season is coming up sooner then we think — I can’t wait!
Great, another recipe I can use to use up the tons of zucchini my husband grows.
I’ve made muffins with zucchini before but not with chocolate chips! That’s even better!
I love zucchini muffins!
I could see myself eating the entire batch!
I lovce Zucchini and it is that time of year again. Time to bake some muffins.
It doesn’t even look like it has zucchini in them. MMmmm!
shhhh…the kids will never know!
These sound amazing. And a great way to sneak some veggies in those picky eaters. Thanks for sharing.
My mom makes zucchini pecan muffins and they are super yummy. Can’t taste the zucchini at all and they are nice and moist 🙂
oh I love pecans!
Looks delicious, can’t wait to try this one!
Oh my gosh YUM! I love baking with zucchini! My grandma makes amazing zucchini bread that I love! Thanks for the awesome recipe!
those look good!
These sound so truely delicious.I have a craving to have these for Thanksgiving.I will be trying them tomorrow.Thank you.
Enjoy!
these muffins look soooooooooo delicious, I definitely need to try them!
these look delicious!
These look delicious! Thanks will have to try these!
This is going on my baking list!
I’ve never cooked with flax, just sprinkled whole seed on salads. I guess as its ground its not even noticeable?
MMM looks good!
I do not remember ever eating zucchini so I am anxious to try out these muffins;.
Made these yesterday and they are great, no one realized that there was zucchini in them
I make these all the time the grandkids love them
I normally do not like zucchini and was tricked into eating muffins made with it. After I ate the muffin and was told what it was made with, I’ll admit I have changed my mind concerning zucchini. As long as it’s disguised in muffins zucchini is my new favorite food.
lol oh that made me laugh! I hate it when people trick you, even more when they were right! lol
I had lots of almonds left over from the holidays so i chopped and added some to these muffins….really good !
This is a great way to get some veggies into the diet! The flax looks interesting also!
Definitely a good way to sneak in some veggies. LOL. I have never heard of such mixture.
These muffins look awesome and love the healthy ingredients Thank you for the recipe
I love any kind of muffins with chocolate chips!
These Zucchini Chocolate muffins sound so delicious and healthy as well. Could you tell us the calorie count for one. Thank you and thank you for sharing this recipe with us.