Healthy Chocolate and Vegetable Mini Muffins
Ready In: 30 mins
Serves: 12
Yields: 36 mini muffins
Ingredients
- 2⁄3 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup oat bran
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1⁄3 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄4-1⁄2 cup sugar (depending on how mean a mummy you are)
- 1 egg
- 1 cup yoghurt (I use lightly sweetened vanilla yoghurt)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3⁄4 cup cooked and mashed butternut squash or 3⁄4 cup sweet potato
- 1 medium zucchini, finely grated (about 1 1/2 cups)
- 100 g bittersweet dark chocolate, chopped (about 4 oz) or 100 g chocolate chips (about 4 oz)
Directions
- Spray mini muffin pan with cooking spray.
- Combine dry ingredients in large bowl and mix well.
- In separate bowl, beat egg slightly, and add all remaining ingredients except choc chips and veggies. Stir well.
- Add liquid mixture, mix until ingredients are moistened. Gently fold in veggies and choc chips.
- Divide among mini muffin cups, filling completely. Smooth top slightly.
- Bake at 175 c for 15 min, or until center comes clean on toothpick/knife.
- Cool on rack.
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