Chocolate Vegan Zucchini Muffins

🥣Ingredients

The ingredients for these delicious chocolate vegan zucchini muffins you may have in your cupboard already. The key ingredients I want to mention are:

Zucchini/courgettes - the star of the show! As they are so moist, they help to give a lovely moist sponge (which is what we all want). We have lots of delicious recipes for using up those zucchini, including Zucchini/Courgette Fries, Zucchini/Courgette Babaganoush and Courgette/Zucchini Fritters.

Milled linseed/flaxseed - this is the egg substitute to help bind the vegan zucchini muffins. Linseed is full of omega-3 fatty acids, as well as having loads of fibre. When you mix milled (or blended) linseed (affiliate link) with water, it forms a gel which is your egg replacement. There are lots of other great vegan egg replacements for burgers, cakes and breakfasts!

Cocoa/Cacao - this is the part of the muffins that makes them chocolatey! Cacao (affiliate link) is the purest form of chocolate, with lots of antioxidants. You'll more commonly find cocoa which is also great.

Vegan Chocolate Chips - these take your vegan zucchini chocolate muffins to the next level, and help make them melt-in-the-mouth delicious, especially if you eat them warm. Double-check the packet to make sure the chocolate chips (affiliate link) are vegan. You can also just chop up a bar of vegan chocolate! I often prefer this option as it's much easier to get high-quality chocolate bars (affiliate link) than to get high-quality chocolate chips.

a chocolate muffin broken up to reveal the moist inside

Check out that moist and chocolatey muffin centre!

👩🏽‍🍳How To

Muffins are actually very easy to make, and these are no exception. In summary, you make the vegan chocolate zucchini muffins by:

Combining the sugar and oil. Then mixing in the milled linseed mixed with water.

Combining the flour, baking powder and cocoa.

Add a bit of the flour, baking powder and cocoa mix to the sugar, oil and linseed mix. Then add a bit of the vegan milk. Repeat, bit by bit, until all ingredients are combined.

Fold in the grated zucchini/courgette, and the vegan chocolate chips.

Put the mixture into the muffins tins - don't forget your muffin cases! (affiliate link)

Sprinkle some extra chocolate on top and bake. Then share your vegan zucchini muffins with your friends (or eat them all yourself!)

grating zucchini on a grater — Grate the zucchini / courgette

milled linseed in a bowl — Put the milled linseed/flaxssed in a bowl

milled linseed mixed with water in a bowl — Mix water with the milled linseed/flaxseed

adding linseed egg to a bowl of flour — Add the milled linseed/flaxseed mixed with water to the sugar and oil

flour in a bowl with baking powder — Add the baking powder to the flour and cocoa

adding flour to the cake mixture — Bit by bit, add some of the flour mixture and the vegan milk, to the sugar mixture

adding vegan milk to the cake mixture — Keep adding bit by bit until everything is combined

grated zucchini about to be adding to the cake mixture — Fold in the grated courgette/zucchini

combing grated zucchini with the cake mixture in a bowl — Add the chocolate chips and combine

muffin cases in a muffin tin — Get your muffin tins ready

adding the chocolate vegan zucchini muffin mixture to the muffin cases — Spoon the mixture into the muffin cases

sprinkling vegan chocolate chips on the vegan chocolate zucchini muffins — Sprinkle some extra chocolate chips on top before baking

Handy How To Guide for making these delicious Chocolate Vegan Zucchini Muffins

❓FAQs

Can I freeze these vegan zucchini muffins?

Yes! They freeze very well, like most vegan cakes.

How long will they stay fresh for?

As they have zucchini/courgette in them, the vegan muffins won't last as long as other cakes. So store them in the fridge if you're not eating them in 1-2 days. You can always heat them up a little before you eat them if you don't want them cold.

What if I don't have chocolate chips or want to use something else?

Chocolate chips are yummy, but you can leave them out if you want. Feel free to add something like nuts or seeds instead, or even dried fruit!

This recipe was developed by Vanessa, one of the original co-founders of this site. Vanessa is now working on her plant based health coaching business, Energise and Thrive Plant Based. She helps people get high energy, great health, and balanced eating with delicious plant-based food.

She’s also brought out her FREE Guide - 5 Steps to Balanced Plant Based Eating which you’re welcome to download. Of course, all the recipes she has created for The Vegan Larder (like this one!) will remain here for you to access.

Getting ready to eat a yummy vegan chocolate zucchini muffin!

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Chocolate Vegan Zucchini Muffins

🥣Ingredients

👩🏽‍🍳How To

❓FAQs

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