You will love these low-carb, paleo Chocolate Muffins. They’re great as a grab & go breakfast or an afternoon snack.
To Make these Paleo Chocolate Muffins you will need:
- coconut flour
- tapioca flour
- baking soda
- sea salt
- baking cocoa
- eggs
- applesauce (plain, unsweetened)
- grass-fed butter (or ghee)
- coconut sugar
- vanilla extract
- instant espresso
- water
- sifter or sieve
- muffin paper liners
- muffin pan(s)
- muffin scoop
- mixing bowls
When developing a recipe, it takes a good bit of experimentation and lots of hoping with fingers crossed. You can see my process for this recipe while I bake these muffins in the video below:
Thankfully, these muffins were a success!
To begin, you’ll preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Line a standard muffin pan with paper liners and set it aside for now.
In your mixing bowl, sift together the flours, baking soda, baking cocoa, instant espresso, and salt. Set this aside.
In a second bowl, you’ll whisk together melted butter, applesauce, water, vanilla extract, and coconut sugar. Whisk in some eggs, one at a time . Then you’ll add the liquid to the dry mixture and whisk together.
The batter is then scooped into the prepared muffin pan.
Bake the muffins for 19-20 minutes, or until they are golden brown.
The recipe below includes the modification that I mentioned in the video. I am sure you will love these paleo chocolate muffins.
I took several of these muffins over to a friend’s house and her daughter eats only gluten free. She loved these muffins, too!
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Paleo Chocolate Muffins
Ingredients
- 1/2 c tapioca flour
- 1/2 c coconut flour
- 3 Tb baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon instant espresso granules
- pinch of fine sea salt
- 1/2 c melted butter, grass-fed, unsalted – or ghee
- 1/2 c unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 Tb water
- 1/4 c coconut sugar
- 4 eggs
Instructions
- To begin, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a standard muffin pan with paper liners and set it aside for now.
- In your mixing bowl, sift together the flours, baking soda, baking cocoa, and salt. Set this aside.
- In a second bowl, whisk together the butter, applesauce, vanilla extract, water, and coconut sugar.
- Whisk in the eggs, one at a time.
- Add the liquid to the dry mixture and whisk together.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin pan.
- Bake the muffins for 19-20 minutes, or until they are test done with a toothpick.
- Transfer the muffins to a cooling rack and allow them to cool for a few minutes.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
If nutritional values are provided for this recipe, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands of ingredients you use. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste or for serving. If nutritional values are very important to you, I suggest using your favorite nutritional calculating tool with the brands you use.
Well I did not have tapioca flour so used all coconut flour and regular sugar. Did not turn our like yours because it baked lumpy and I could tell when mixing it that something was not right. It was a bit dry but we put applesauce on it and it still was a good paleo dessert.
The tapioca flour and coconut sugar are important for these muffins :)
Loved your gingerbread muffin and so didn’t my friends! I plan on making chocolate ones next week!