Good for You Chocolate Muffins
photo by havent the slightest
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
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12 muffins
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup sugar (may use a substitute if you need to watch sugar intake too)
- 1⁄3 cup baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1⁄2 cup nonfat milk
- 1⁄2 cup egg substitute
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (using almond extract is a nice twist too)
- 1⁄4 cup sliced almonds (you may use a chopped almond too)
directions
- In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and baking soda.
- In another bowl, whisk the applesauce, milk, egg substitute and vanilla until smooth.
- Stir wet ingredients into the dry ingredients just until moistened (do not over stir or your muffins will turn out too dense).
- Coat 12 muffins cups with non-stick spray or use a paper liner. Fill cups three-fourths full with batter.
- Sprinkle with the almonds (or you can use a white chocolate chip, peanut butter chip, chopped peppermints).
- Bake at 375*F for 20-25 minutes or until muffins test done with a pick.
- Cool for 15 minutes before removing muffins from the baking cups and allowing to cool completely on a wire rack.
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Reviews
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These are my go to for a low fat chocolate treat! They are good. You can taste the apple sauce but considering their low fat state, I feel like it is a good trade off. I usually make mini muffins and figure each one has about 30 - 40 calories. I lost this recipe for a while and tried MANY MANY others and none I have found were even half as good as these! The only thing I change is substituting whole grain flour for white. I haven't noticed a difference.
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These are really good - nice chocolate flavor, they have a good texture and they puffed up nicely. I added chocolate chips instead of almonds, since I'm out. Also used 2 eggs rather than the egg substitute. Made them in my muffin top pans and am thoroughly impressed. I've been on a run of muffin disasters lately, so this was a welcome relief when they turned out delicious. The only thing is, they are a tiny bit tough, but perhaps I mixed the batter too much, even though I really tried not too.
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These are really good - nice chocolate flavor, they have a good texture and they puffed up nicely. I added chocolate chips instead of almonds, since I'm out. Also used 2 eggs rather than the egg substitute. Made them in my muffin top pans and am thoroughly impressed. I've been on a run of muffin disasters lately, so this was a welcome relief when they turned out delicious. The only thing is, they are a tiny bit tough, but perhaps I mixed the batter too much, even though I really tried not too.
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Fantastic! I used brown sugar, 2 eggs, a combination of flours (2/3 cup whole wheat, 1/3 cup whole wheat pastry, and 1/4 cup white flour), omitted the almonds, reduced the baking soda to 1/2 tsp, and replaced the applesauce with pumpkin puree (because, from experience, it makes a moist and wonderfully chewy muffin). I spooned the batter into 9 muffin cups to make big muffins and baked for about 23 minutes. They smelled great while in oven and the end result was so delicious.
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