Healthy Chocolate Sweet Potato Avocado Muffins
Healthy-decadent-fudgy-chocolate muffins made with sweet potato, avocado, and cauliflower! Flourless, nut free, paleo, and gluten free muffins made with veggies. The best way to get your kids to eat their veggies is these double chocolate muffins!
Did someone just said cauliflower, avocado, sweet potato, chocolate muffins?
I’m not even dreaming, this is reality.
And it’s perfect.
You wouldn’t know that hidden under all those fudgy delicious chocolatey layers is more veggies then the salad you ate for lunch.
I’m not saying you should make this your diet or anything, but I’m pretty sure these will be the healthiest muffins you’ll ever eat in your life.
And maybe just the tastiest as well.
After spending the week sleeping under the stars, pooping in the woods, and eating kale pesto leftovers from a mason jar, I’m pretty happy to be back in my kitchen making all the veggie muffins.
But I do you miss sleeping outside and not having to think about work or anything besides,
“Oh, look at that mountain! It’s probably the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen in my life! Oh wait, there’s another! And Another!”.
…End of train of thought for the day.
We casually snooped on some chill mountain goats, forgot to book a camping site and were left homeless for a night, had some pretty great barbecue with dear friends, and boot skiied under the sun in the snowy mountains.
It was a pretty great vacation.
Sweet potato muffins and I.F.
I’ve started this whole intermittent fasting thing.
Not on purpose or because it’s trendy.
It just sort of happened.
One thing I will say: it has change my life completely and forever.
I started skipping breakfast and eating my first meal at 2 PM, solely because I was on the road and traveling.
I’m a regular with stomach pain.
Not proud of it, it’s just the way it is.
I’m trying to embrace the reality of being uncomfortable 24/7, but this intermittent fasting might just be the cure!
I have had so much more energy and brain clarity since switching up the way I’m eating, that it makes eating these flourless chocolate muffins for dessert even more fun!
A few things I’m loving about intermittent fasting:
- Less foggy brain.
- More energy.
- Less bloating.
- Like close to zero cravings, which is unheard of for me!
- Also, no snacking. Not because I am trying not to, I’m just not hungry all the time. Also weird for me.
- More calm.
- More relaxed.
- Extra time to do other life-things, like getting more things done on my to do list and enjoying life around me so much more!
- The colors seem brighter.
- Sounds are more beautiful.
- I’m more aware and in tune with my body and mind.
- Life is just more beautiful all around.
- Less stress- that’s a keeper!
How long will it last?
I’m not saying this is going to be a forever trend or anything.
But right now the 2 PM and 8 PM eating cycle is working pretty well for me.
So, lunch/dinner usually looks like another big salad with some sort of protein, five to six more colorful veggies, and a side of chocolate.
Lately, it’s been these life-changing chocolate veggie muffins!
A few things you should know about these muffins:
- They are ultra fudgy-moist.
- Decadent as a freakin kween!!
- Tastes like cake made from a salad.
- You won’t want to eat just one. Dangerous.
- They are breakfast, lunch, and dinner worthy. A guilt-free treat to enjoy any time of day.
- So easy to make!! I make them in my blender in just minutes.
- Chocolate. Chocolate. And more chocolate! You can’t go wrong.
- 2 cups raw sweet potato minced
- 1 medium avocado pitted, peeled
- 1/2 cup raw cauliflower minced
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons coconut flour
- 6 tablespoons maple syrup
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon sea salt
- chocolate chips for sprinkling on top
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Cook Time | 1 hour |
Prep Time | 10 minutes |
Servings |
muffins
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These muffins are purely veggie based, so they are really moist! If you’re not into that, then I’d say pass this recipe up. But if you are looking for the healthiest veggie chocolate muffin of your life, you just found it.
Recipe Notes
These muffins are purely veggie based, so they are really moist! If you’re not into that, then I’d say pass this recipe up. But if you are looking for the healthiest veggie chocolate muffin of your life, you just found it. |
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a food processor prepare your minced sweet potato and cauliflower.
- Add all ingredients (except chocolate chips) in a high speed blender and puree until smooth.
- Line muffin tray with paper liners and fill 3/4 the way full with batter. Then sprinkle with chocolate chips (optional). I use large bakery style muffins and it makes 5 muffins and takes 1 hour 20 minutes to bake. To make 10 regular muffins reduce cooking time to about 60 minutes. You will know they have finished cooking when a knife inserted into the middle of a muffin comes out clean. Cool before eating (this allows the muffins to set up). The muffins should be really moist inside. Store in fridge or freezer.
Nutrition Facts
Healthy Chocolate Sweet Potato Avocado Muffins
Amount Per Serving
Calories 224
Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 8g
12%
Saturated Fat 5g
25%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5g
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
Cholesterol 37mg
12%
Sodium 236mg
10%
Potassium 485mg
14%
Total Carbohydrates 33g
11%
Dietary Fiber 8g
32%
Sugars 16g
Protein 6g
12%
Vitamin A
136%
Vitamin C
9%
Calcium
6%
Iron
4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Hi Kaylie. IM huge fan of yours and I think your recipes are absolutely amazeball.
Question, any subs for cauliflower? I noticed few recipes with cauliflower in it, why?
Thank you! Just keep bringing awesome recipes.
xoxo Rena
Hi Rena, the cauliflower makes things moist and is a good addition for those who can’t have flour. 🙂
hi!!! LOVING this recipe!! Im tracking it all on my fitbit app. I just need to know how many muffins are in a serving size? Im assuming 1 but I just want to make sure. Since I had like 3 this morning . . . . . .lol
Hi Courtney, yes- it’s one. 🙂
I have these in the oven at the moment! Just checking, the serving size is one large bakery style muffin or one normal size muffin?
Hi Laura! It’s either one regular muffin or 1/2 bakery style. 🙂 Enjoy!
Hi, i was just wondering what you meand by minced sweet potato do you need to cook it first?
Hi Katie, the sweet potato is minced (finely chopped… or you can shred it) in a food processor. It’s not cooked before mixing together. 🙂 Hope that helps!
Can i replace eggs for something else?
Hi Nita, I haven’t tried.. I think they may fall apart or be really gummy otherwise, but I don’t know for sure. You could definitely try and let me know how it goes with flax eggs.
These were so delicious! Thank you for an amazing recipe.
Great to hear Jenny!
These look SO good! Could you make these as a bread?
That should work Erica, it sounds like a great idea!
I can’t wait to make these. I’ve been doing batches of muffins for quick breakfast during the week for my toddler. I was making some other sweet potato muffins, but they had lots of white sugar in the recipe, so I thought these would be a good change. One question – if I make these in a mini-muffin pan (24), how long should I bake them? Thanks!
Hi Krisha, I’m not sure exactly how long they would bake as mini muffins- I would just check in on them every 5-10 minutes.
Hi! This looks amazing! Can I substitute the coconut flour with almond flour instead? Thanks
Hi Miki, yes- that might work, but you will need to add probably 4x the amount of almond flour. 🙂