The best ever zucchini muffins with chocolate chips - simple to make, moist muffins that freeze well making them perfect for lunchboxes!
Well, we are late to the "drowning in a glut of zucchini" party but you'd better believe we are finally here! Also, I have 2 kids now so to be fair, it's pretty much a given that I'm going to be late to any party!
Remember when I shared my Granny's recipe for zucchini bread last year? You guys LOVE that bread (not surprised) so I figured, why not try it out in muffin form?
It's such a perfect recipe that I only made a couple of minor changes. I cut down the sugar to make them more breakfast friendly and then added chocolate chips to cancel that out!
I used dark chocolate chips because they are my favourite and I love how they go with the zucchini, but milk chocolate would be fine too. They're great in the muffins and I love adding more to the top before baking for extra chocolate flavour!
Tips for making perfect muffins
- Don't overmix the batter! Fold the dry ingredients through until just mixed - a few flour lumps are fine
- Whisk the dry i
- Use room temperature ingredients - this helps the batter come together
- Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the batter into the liners - this makes the muffins even sizes and is a great way to get small kids to help!
Just like my other muffin recipes, these freeze really well. Simply pop them in a large snaplock bag in the freezer, ready to pull out and pop straight into the lunchbox!
Although the rate we've been getting through these muffins, I'll be surprised if any make it to the freezer!
Other muffin recipes to try:
- Double Chocolate Muffins
- Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Spiced Apple Muffins
- Raspberry & White Chocolate Muffins
- Crunchy Top Blueberry Muffins
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Here are some items I used to make this recipe:
Measuring cups and spoons| Pyrex mixing bowls | Muffin tin | Ice cream scoop
Zucchini Muffins with Chocolate Chips
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups (245g) flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup oil (canola, vegetable, coconut)
- 1 ½ cups (250g/about 1 large zucchini) grated zucchini
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips (plus extras for sprinkling on top)
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/350°F and line a 12 count muffin tin with paper cases or spray with cooking spray.
- In a large mixing bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon & salt and set aside.
- In a medium sized bowl whisk the eggs. Add the sugar, vanilla, oil and zucchini and combine.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Fold through the chocolate chips.
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin tins and top each muffin with extra chocolate chips. Bake for 25 minutes until golden brown or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the muffin comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tins for 10 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.
- Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days.
- These muffins also freeze well in a freezer proof container or a large snaplock bag.
If you tried and loved this recipe, please leave a comment and a rating below!
E Smith says
We love your recipes! This one is super easy and tastes delicious. Lunchbox go to in my house. I make mini ones for the kids and a few big ones for the adults. I even swapped the chocolate chips with blueberries to make them dairy free for a friend and they came out fantastic 😋😋
Harriette Van der Zee says
Yum yum yum! Delicious muffins, I tripled the recipe as we had heaps of zucchini, great way to use surplus zucchinis out of the garden. 🧡
Brooke Fairweather says
Made with white chocolate as it’s all I had in the cupboard! Beautifully delish!! Three year old has come back for thirds!!
Grandma of twenty six says
Great muffins, substituted chocolate chip for finely chopped cranberries - delicious.
Michaela says
So easy to make and really yummy
Katie says
Hey I wonder if the recipe needs to state between frozen or fresh zuchinni? I used 250 grams of fresh, and needed to use nearly an extra 3/4 cup if milk to get them into a muffin batter consistency. Other than that, beautiful. And grating the zuchinni extra fine, I really fooled the kids - they still don't believe me there is a big green vegetable in there!
Laura says
I probably should add a wee note about that, thank you for the suggestion! Adding another egg can work well too!
Sammy Kennedy says
These wee muffins are suprisingly delicious and the recipe is very forgiving! I opted for half the amount of sugar, and I only had one egg so just used a few dashes of milk and oil in place - they turned out fantastic. Perfect lunchbox treat, while sneaking some veges in! Thanks for sharing!
Trish says
Used raisens and currants instead of chocolate. Far too sweet for me, even tho I only used half a cup sugar (100g). Only made 11 but could stretch to 12 though would be smaller muffins. Wouldn't make again. Sorry about that, but not a taste I like.
Laura says
Sorry they weren't to your taste Trish - I'd love for you to try the recipe as written before leaving a 1 star rating next time!
I think the raisins and currants would likely have added to the sweetness more than the chocolate chips actually! Also, to solve the 11 muffin dilemma, that would be the extra 1/2 cup of sugar that would make the batter up to the 12 muffin mark
Nat says
Made these today using up a fresh zucchini… only I wondered if the recipe is missing some liquid? It was really dry and didn’t look like one of the pics of batter, (it was flour coated zucchini and the egg/oil mix could barely cover it), so I added about half a cup of milk in 😂 came out perfect when baked.
Laura says
Hello! No, how the recipe is written is how I make them - I possibly used thawed zucchini which is often wetter than fresh zucchini in the pictures! But great to know it works well adding some milk!
Jamie says
Seriously yummy!! And super easy!! First time having zucchini baking so thought I would taste it, nope! Yum! Now for my zucchini plants to actually produce so I can continue making these!
Sarah says
These are delicious and a great way to use up those courgettes from the garden
Brydie says
Delish - I used half the amount of sugar & they were great
Sara says
Kids love these and I peel the zucchini so they still don’t know there are veges in them! Also use half plain and half whole meal flour and they still come out great, thanks!
Dawn morrow says
These were so yummy and easy to make. Made the first batch, tried them and had to make another batch just so we had some to freeze.
Sacha says
Hi Laura...will be making these today and keen to try your Grannys Zucchini Bread too! Just wondered is it necessary to squeeze the liquid out of the zucchini before using or do I just grate and use straight away?
Thanks heaps!
Laura says
Hi Sacha, if you are using straight away don't worry about squeezing the liquid out - I never do! 🙂