Keto Chocolate Muffins with Coconut Flour

These keto cocoa muffins are made pinch coconut flour and are rich | and moist pinch a saccharine cocoa coconut flavor.

When you commencement to cleanable up your diet, nutrient for illustration muffins, cookies and different baked equipment are 1 of nan first things to go. They are usually loaded pinch sweetener and processed flour which spikes your humor sweetener and keeps you craving more. Luckily, I person a full arsenal of delicious sugar-free recipes and these muffins are a favourite of mine! 

That’s why I emotion this coconut flour cocoa muffin recipe. It’s sugar-free and uses healthier ingredients. This is simply a awesome nutrient to person connected manus for snacks aliases on pinch breakfast. They moreover recreation well! I’ve brought them connected trips earlier and they do rather well! Enjoy!

Why I emotion this recipe

• These keto cocoa muffins are immoderate of nan moistest ones I’ve ever had! Coconut flour soaks up a batch of moisture and tin beryllium very drying, but not this recipe! I made judge to see nan correct benignant of ingredients for a moist muffin!
• I for illustration utilizing coconut flour because it’s a healthy keto/low carb flour that is afloat of fiber!
• These muffins sensation saccharine and chocolatey. The coconut flour and coconut lipid create a hint of coconut spirit but it’s not overpowering. 
• Not only are these muffins keto, but they’re besides gluten-free, dairy-free, paleo and sugar-free!
• This is simply a elemental look to make, nary typical instrumentality is needed. You fundamentally conscionable operation each of nan ingredients together and cook it!

Keto cocoa muffin look tips

• Working pinch coconut flour tin sometimes beryllium challenging because it requires a batch of moisture and binders. That’s why it is ace important NOT to substitute nan eggs (they are required for a successful recipe!). That’s besides why there’s a bully magnitude of liquid ingredients for illustration almond beverage and coconut oil. These each thief to make judge that nan muffins don’t move retired barren and powdery. 
• I usage almond beverage for this look but you tin besides usage coconut milk, different non-dairy-milk aliases regular beverage successful its place.
• I utilized sugar-free erythritol arsenic nan sweetener but immoderate different granulated sweetener tin beryllium utilized for illustration coconut sweetener aliases cane sugar.
• Make judge nan coconut lipid is softened aliases melted erstwhile blending it pinch nan batter. To melt it, conscionable power it successful nan microwave for astir 15 seconds because you don’t want it to beryllium excessively hot. 
• After you operation each of nan ingredients together, nan batter whitethorn look a small thin, but springiness it astir 5 minutes for nan coconut flour to soak up nan moisture and nan batter will thicken up. 
• The muffins will emergence a small spot successful nan oven but not much. You tin capable nan batter almost up to nan apical of nan muffin liner, leaving possibly 1/2 inch for it to rise.
• These keto cocoa muffins support awesome for leftover snacks. They will enactment bully retired connected nan antagonistic for 2 days. If refrigerated they will past astir 1-2 weeks, conscionable make judge to return them retired astir an hr earlier eating aliases heating them up successful nan toaster oven astatine 350°F for astir 5-10 minutes. They thin to stiffen successful nan refrigerator. They besides frost good and will past astatine slightest a period aliases more, beryllium judge to defrost overnight earlier eating. 

How to make this recipe

Start by pre-heating nan oven to 350°F. Add each of nan barren ingredients to a vessel including nan coconut flour, cocoa powder, sweetener, brackish and baking powder. Mix together.

Add each of nan bedewed ingredients isolated from nan coconut lipid to nan vessel including nan eggs, almond beverage and vanilla extract and blend together utilizing an immersion blender aliases an electrical beater to activity retired immoderate lumps. The batter whitethorn look bladed astatine this point, but it needs a fewer minutes for nan coconut flour to soak up nan moisture and thicken. Next, you’ll adhd nan melted coconut oil. To melt it, only power it successful nan microwave for astir 15 seconds because you don’t want it to beryllium excessively hot. Then slow adhd nan melted coconut lipid to nan batter while blending. 

Wait a mates minutes until nan batter has thickened to beryllium for illustration brownie batter consistency. Then evenly move nan batter into a muffin tin lined pinch muffin liners. The muffins will emergence a small spot successful nan oven, but not much, truthful you tin capable nan muffin liners almost to nan apical leaving astir 1/2 inch astatine nan top. It should make astir 12 muffins. 

Place nan muffins into nan oven and cook astatine 350°F for astir 20-25 minutes aliases until a toothpick inserted comes retired clean.

Allow to cool earlier eating. 

This look was primitively posted successful January of 2014, but has been republished successful May of 2021 to see improved look tips, photos and video. 

Hannah Healy

Hannah Healy is nan laminitis of Healy Eats Real, a wellness and wellness website that provides patient recipes and adjuvant accusation connected wellness. Hannah is nan published writer of The Ultimate Paleo Cookbook. Her activity has been featured connected Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Redbook, fittingness and MSN.