Gluten free chocolate chip muffins are perfect for snacks. Finally a healthy chocolate muffin so delicious you won’t notice that they’re dairy, gluten and refined-sugar free.
Author: recipe adapted from [url href="http://www.deliciousasitlooks.com/2012/05/double-chocolate-almond-banana-muffins.html" target="_blank"]Delicious as it Looks[/url]
Ingredients
2large ripe bananasmashed
2free-range eggs
¼cupcoconut oilmelted (or butter) I also made these the second time with olive oil and they were just as good
¼cuppure maple syrup
1teaspoonvanilla extract
2 ½cupalmond meal
¼cupcacao
1teaspoonbaking soda
½teaspoonsalt
½cupfinely choppedbest-quality dark chocolate
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 160C(320F) fan-forced and line a muffin tin with liners (or use a greased silicone baking tin).
Place the mashed banana in a big bowl and stir in the eggs, coconut oil, maple syrup and vanilla.
In another bowl, stir together the almond meal, cacao, baking soda and salt.
Stir the dry ingredients into the wet then fold in the chocolate.
Divide the batter between the 12 holes of the tin and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.