Zucchini Chocolate Banana Muffins Recipe

This may be our favorite ripe banana recipe ever. Ok so they double as a dessert and breakfast so ya’ know, they’re pretty great. One of the best muffin recipes on our site.

The key to these is the integration of both shredded vegetables (zucchini) AND brown bananas. So basically they’re healthy right?? 😉 A bit like our zucchini brownies. You can make these double chocolate chip muffins by adding a few more chips on the top before baking too.

I know, super easy muffin recipe right?? This is basically what you’ll need. I wouldn’t substitute anything, both zucchini and banana are really a must to get this moist!

When making any type of banana muffins, make sure they’re quite brown but not completely black. If you aren’t ready to make something and they’re pretty overripe just put them in the fridge to slow it down.

Ingredient Notes

• VERY ripe bananas, this makes our favorite overripe bananas recipe
• Zucchini should be shredded and pressed with paper towels
• Eggs should be added at room temerature
• Chocolate chips, an extra 1/2 cup could be sprinkled on top too
• Dark cocoa powder is what we use
  • if you don’t have this, follow our banana nutella muffins recipe instead
• Vanilla extract
• Oil, vegetable works or applesauce
• Baking powder and baking soda
• Cinnamon we like
• Sugar, white makes them sweet
• Brown sugar makes them sweeter
• Muffin tin and papers are very helpful

When you mash bananas they should look like this. Leave it a little chunky for texture.

Variations

Our chocolate zucchini muffins are delicious with the addition of more chips is SO moist because of the fruit and vegetable bits. If you wanted to cut the sweetness you could add 1/3 cup sugar instead of 1/2. It isn’t overly sweet though with the dark chocolate.

How do I tell if muffins are done without a toothpick?

I never use one of those, I am lazy. Plus I think you can tell so easily whether they should be taken out so why bother. Just gently touch the center with your finger and if it springs back up they’re done.

The key to this is to NOT over bake them or they’ll dry out. That is the opposite of what you want for these. It is a great recipe and too much time won’t give you the results you want.

Other Muffin Recipes we Love

Want to bake even more muffins? We have a ton! You can make our mini pumpkin banana muffins, 11 minutes usually is the perfect timing.

This is how to make pancake mix muffins. For a throw it together treat, blender muffins are pretty fun. We integrated peanut butter in these as a special treat. It may sound weird, but this banana bread with mayonnaise recipe is killer too. Now jump to recipe and get started y’all!

You can make a smaller batch ofair fryer muffins using this timing, or this is how long to bake mini muffins. Adding extra chips to the top is up to you. I prefer adding semi sweet variety to mix up the flavors a bit.

What is the most popular muffin flavor?

That depends on whom you ask but blueberry muffins are usually on the top. cake mix banana bread muffins would be second followed by pumpkin zucchini muffins that we add zucchini to as well!

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