Healthy Chocolate Muffins are made with simple ingredients like cocoa powder, banana, and Greek yogurt, making the perfect mix for a moist and somewhat dense muffin!
Funny things happen when I have an hour or two without the boys on the weekend. I BAKE. Yes, you heard right. I actually have the patience and get all the ingredients right when it comes to baking. I still don’t have the patience for flipping pancakes or making waffles, but I consider muffins a good start. And because my boys eat anything that looks like chocolate or has the word chocolate in them, these healthy chocolate muffins seemed like a good starting point for getting my baking-on this past weekend!
Now I know I’ve turned a dark corner and am one of these people that now considers a muffin healthy. Why? Well because I mixed in a few of my favorite healthy ingredients, like Greek yogurt and cocoa powder. Granted I didn’t take the plunge with whole wheat flour, but baby steps people. Especially for someone who doesn’t bake but once a month! I also wanted to keep these chocolate muffins as light as possible, knowing that by already adding yogurt they’d be a little dense.
I’ve actually been trying to bake a breakfast-type food once a week since I’m now on this kick that the boys aren’t eating the same thing two days in a row [thank you “It’s Not About the Broccoli”]. So far, we’ve expanded our palates to these healthy chocolate muffins, apple cinnamon oatmeal muffins, and baked French toast cups this month. Next month, I’m thinking I’ll try my hand at baked oatmeal cups… no promises, as this recipe is a keeper! PS. The other breakfasts I’m serving on the off-healthy-chocolate-muffin-days is milk and cereal, eggs and cheese on English muffins, and yogurt parfaits. NO BAKING required!
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 ripe banana, mashed
- ½ cup applesauce, unsweetened
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- ½ cup fat-free milk
- Preheat oven to 350. Combine dry ingredients in large bowl.
- Add wet ingredients to separate bowl. Slowly add the wet ingredients into the dry, careful not to mix too much.
- Spray muffin tin with nonstick spray or use muffin liners. Fill ⅔ of the way full.
- Bake for 18 minutes, or until a toothpick, inserted, comes out clean. Let rest for 10 minutes before removing from muffin tin. Serve immediately or store in an airtight container in refrigerator.
These healthy chocolate muffins almost reminded me of eating a pancake but in muffin form! If you’re looking for a crumbly, sweet muffin, then you came to the wrong place. But if you’re looking for a moist, chocolatey muffin, the Serbinski crew has you covered! Get excited about #breakfast with these healthy chocolate muffins made with Greek yogurt! Share on X
I’d love to have one of these for an afternoon snack!
Looks good, and I bet the boys love having chocolate for breakfast! If you want to give baked oatmeal cups a try for your next baked breakfast recipe, I hope you’ll try my ricotta berry oatmeal cups I just posted for this mont’s Recipe ReDux!!
They sound so good!
I just made these and unfortunately they ended up in the compost bin. I had to bake them a lot longer than the 15 minutes as indicated in the recipe…double the time and the muffins were still not cooked. The ratios must be off as the batter is way too wet. We were really looking for to these as they sounded really good.
Hi Danielle— thanks for the feedback. Interesting results! I’ll definitely take a look at the recipe and try these again. I’m so sorry for that!
Danielle— Me again 🙂 So I made the recipe with what I had written on the blog and they were SOGGY!! So I went back to my recipe files and BAM. There was no milk on my recipe card like there was on this website. I am SO sorry… and clearly need more sleep or bigger glasses! I just tried the recipe card recipe again [my husband thinks I’m wasting food] and phew! Turned out! I did increase the cook time to 18 minutes…
I tried to pin this recipe but the pin doesn’t link to the recipe, only to the picture?
I don’t want to pin the long pin.
Hi Laura. Thanks for flagging. I just made the link change so it should be working!!
Same problem. Am I doing something wrong? I hit pin, pictures come up, I choose one and it pins fine, but when I click on it inside my board, it comes up, I hit visit to get recipe and it just makes the picture bigger.
I made these with the original recipe, and YUCK! I just came back to view the comments to see if I had done something wrong, and I see that you’ve changed the recipe…less milk and the addition of honey. I actually added sugar (the batter was bitter!) and chocolate chips, and cooked them 20 minutes and that still didn’t make for happy results. Thanks for trying, though. I’m always looking for a healthier way to indulge my chocolate cravings!
Sorry you didn’t like Barbara! And yes, I had missed a few ingredients from when I plugged in the recipe. Pregnancy brain! Why didn’t you like them? Texture? Taste?
They were definitely an odd texture! Also, they REALLY stuck to the muffin paper, so I lost a lot of the ‘cake’. I love your posts…I’m going to try the breakfast cookies this weekend. Thanks for all you do (and I totally understand ‘pregnancy brain’)!
I also tried and was really disappointed with the results. Although the lack of sugar originally appealed to me, they are bitter and lack flavour… no banana taste, no cinnamon, just blah and bitter. Too bad. I may have to try again but tweak the ingredients.
Hi Sarah! Thanks for the feedback. I honestly have tried the recipe time and time again and get different results every time. I admitted in the recipe it wasn’t the best! Try the cinnamon applesauce muffins. They are the best!
My kids and I loved it!!