Healthy Chocolate Protein Muffins

These blender muffins are super chocolatey and packed with protein and fiber. They have the perfect chocolate cake texture and are built in your blender for super easy cleanup!

I love that they’re flourless, naturally sweetened AND… drum roll please… I even snuck some green veggies in there! No one will be the wiser. You don’t taste them and they don’t affect the texture in the slightest. Just packing in the nutrition left, right and center!

I like making these in mini muffin tins so I can have a couple of them or enjoy one as a small dessert. Kids tend to love mini things, so all the more reason to go mini on these tasty protein muffins.

Supplies You’ll Need to Make Chocolate Protein Muffins

Here are my favorite tools to make these tasty muffins:

• My favorite Vitamix blender (I seriously use it several times a day and I bought it 10 years ago)
• Mini silicon muffin tin or regular silicon muffin pan or non toxic ceramic muffin pan
• Avocado oil cooking spray
• Organic unsweetened cacao powder or organic unsweetened cocoa powder

Easy, Low Maintenance Protein Muffins, Coming Right Up

This recipe is low maintenance and so easy because of building in the blender, but I experimented and they work best without defrosting the frozen kale and without needing to peel the zucchini.

Have you ever had to make zucchini bread and the recipe has you squeeze all of the water out of it? It takes forever and makes a mess. So no worries, no squeezing here. Just roughly chop up the zucchini into pieces and throw it in. Let the blender do the rest of the work.

How to Remove the Muffins from the Muffin Tin with No Mess

Prevention is key, my friends. To make sure your protein muffins don’t stick to the muffin tin, be sure to spray your muffin tin with avocado oil spray before baking.

To remove the muffins from the muffin tin, let them cool completely and then run a butter knife around the outside edges of each muffin. They’ll be super spongy and come out easily.

Even better, if you pick up this silicon mini muffin pan or this silicon regular size muffin pan you can just pop the muffins right out. No muss, no fuss.

Healthy Chocolate Protein Muffin Video

Find it easier to follow along to a video or watch someone make the recipe before you get started? Here’s how to make these chocolate protein muffins. It’s this easy!

Helpful Kitchen Tools:

Vitamix blender

Mini silicon muffin tin or regular silicon muffin pan or non toxic ceramic muffin pan

Ingredients I Love:

Avocado oil cooking spray

Organic unsweetened cacao powder

Organic unsweetened cocoa powder

Now let’s get baking (and enjoying!)

Healthy Chocolate Protein Muffins – Flourless and Naturally Sweetened with Hidden Green Veggies

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• Author: Christy Brissette, MS, RD
• Total Time: 18 minutes
• Yield: 24 mini muffins
• Diet: Gluten Free

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These fudgylicious healthy chocolate protein muffins are packed with filling fiber and protein, flourless, naturally sweetened and have hidden green veggies. Perfect for a snack, dessert, breakfast, you name it!

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Ingredients

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• 1 cup frozen kale (do not thaw before using)
• 1 cup chopped zucchini (no need to peel or squeeze out the water before adding)
• 1 medium banana (the riper, the better)
• 3 large eggs
• 1/4 cup cacao powder (or cocoa powder)
• 3 Tablespoons ground flax seed
• 1 cup natural peanut butter (no sugar or salt added)
• 1/4 cup maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt

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Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (175 degrees Celsius). Spray a mini or regular muffin tin with avocado oil spray.
2. Add everything to your blender. Blend until smooth.
3. Pour the batter into your prepared muffin tin. Bake for 10-12 minutes for mini muffins or 18-20 min for regular muffins.
4. Let cool and enjoy!

Notes

Store in an airtight container in the fridge for 4 days or freeze and they’ll last in the freezer for up to 3 months.

• Prep Time: 6 minutes
• Cook Time: 12 minutes
• Category: Breakfast
• Method: Blender