Chocolate and Courgette Muffins

A few weeks ago I had one of those wonderful baking experiences where you just throw together what you have in your cupboards/ fridge and it comes together perfectly. This included a courgette that needed using up and a bottle of date syrup that I'd bought a while back on a whim but then not been sure what to use it for. Although Chocolate, Courgette sugar free muffins may sound quite worthy I can assure you that they tasted anything but. The date syrup added rich toffee flavours and the coconut oil a fabulous butteriness. Quite simply these were some of the fluffiest, tastiest muffins I've ever made and I've made a lot of vegan muffins in the last 9 years! I'm really glad that I took time to write the recipe down as I will definitely be making these again.


Chocolate and Courgette Muffins
Makes 10

Ingredients

5oz/ 125g of plain flour
2oz/ 50g of cocoa
1 teaspoon of baking powder
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
4 fl oz of soya milk
1/2 cup of coconut oil
3/4 cup of date syrup
1 small grated courgette (4oz/ 100g)

Pre-heat the oven to 360F/ 180C

Sieve and mix the flour through to cinammon on the ingredients list.

In a separate bowl whisk together the vanilla extract through to the date syrup.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently mix then fold in the courgette.

Bake for 20 minutes.

Comments

  1. Kelly28 July 2015 at 14:17

    These sound really nice. Do you think the date syrup could be subbed out for brown rice syrup, or maybe maple?

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  2. Kelly28 July 2015 at 14:17

    These sound really nice. Do you think the date syrup could be subbed out for brown rice syrup, or maybe maple?

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  3. Tea and Sympatico28 July 2015 at 15:07

    Hi Kelly, yes I'm sure that would work really well. I'm interested to try the recipe with different syrups or maybe Sweet Freedom.

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  4. Joey29 July 2015 at 15:08

    I love courgette in muffins - it's one of those things that sounds like it shouldn't work but absolutely does! Such a good rise on them too.

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  5. Vegan Bakery Cake in UK3 March 2021 at 18:42

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