Soft & tender chocolate chip muffins with a perfectly moist and fluffy crumb, sweet vanilla flavor and lots of melty chocolate.
Welcome to the Best EVER Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe. Throw away all of your other healthy chocolate chip muffins recipes. Heck, throw away all of your traditional chocolate chip muffins recipes.
This one is all you’re gonna need.
When baking and baking rounds of healthy muffins in the Beaming Baker Test Kitchen (oooh, sounds so official!), Erik and I were halted in our tracks when we tasted today’s healthy chocolate chip muffins.
We stopped production (aka home baking lol), called anyone and everyone we knew, and demanded everything stop for one second so we could all happily sigh over how friggin’ amazing these healthy chocolate chip muffins turned out.
Hint: they taste like the best ever chocolate chip cookies in muffin form. And they just happen to be healthy. Say whaaaa???
Try your hand at making super-duper-secretly healthy chocolate chip muffins and WOW all of your friends and fam with the shocker factoid that these babies are actually healthy. *Mic drop*
Ready to get into today’s baking adventure? Let’s do it!
How to Make Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
Preheat
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with muffin liners.
Sift
In a large bowl, sift together oat flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
Heat
Heat water and milk until just warm—this keeps the coconut oil from solidifying once combined.
Whisk the Wet Ingredients
In a medium bowl, whisk together all of the wet ingredients until well mixed: water, milk, lemon juice, coconut oil, coconut sugar, maple syrup and vanilla.
Combine
Whisk together the wet and dry ingredients.
Pour Batter
Pour batter evenly into the prepared muffin pan. Top with chocolate chips.
Bake, Cool and Enjoy
Bake for about 29 minutes. Cool and enjoy the best ever healthy chocolate chip muffins!
My favorite chocolate chips muffins ever—they just happen to be healthy. Deep vanilla flavor with a buttery profile and sweet, dark chocolate chips balancing it all out beautifully.
Healthy Ingredients for Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
Oat Flour
Remember the days when you had to put a clothes pin over your nose and force yourself to eat too many bowls of tasteless oatmeal? Forget all of those days by using fiber-rich, heart-healthy oat flour instead of highly processed, bleached all purpose flour to make these healthy chocolate chip muffins. Oat flour: keeps you regular and satisfied with yummy healthy chocolate chip muffins! Learn How to Make Homemade Oat Flour here.
Almond Flour
I simply love sneaking almonds into my healthy recipes because they provide an added boost of healthy fats, nutrients and keep you satisfied longer. Whole ingredients = whole belly (that’s actually full.) Here is the almond flour that I use.
Coconut Oil
One of my favorite healthy ingredients to use in my healthy baking recipes. Coconut oil contains healthy fatty acids that raise good cholesterol in your blood, which can, in turn, reduce heart disease, and provide quick energy stat!
Coconut Sugar & Maple Syrup
My favorite refined sugar-free sweeteners that retain nutrients like iron, zinc, calcium and potassium and antioxidants. You can find coconut sugar here.
Refined Sugar-Free Chocolate
Try these paleo chocolate chunks that are vegan, gluten free and refined sugar-free. Keeping your sugar low? Use these stevia-sweetened sugar-free chocolate chips instead. 😉
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The Taste & Texture
Texture: These healthy chocolate chip muffins are super moist, rich with a soft, tender crumb that’s perfectly fluffy. You’d never guess these chocolate chip muffins were healthy!
Taste: No exaggeration, these muffins taste exactly like chocolate chip cookie dough, in muffin form! Sweet vanilla flavor, bursting with melty morsels of delicious chocolate chips. Deep vanilla flavor with buttery profile and sweet & dark chocolate chips balancing it all out.
Unbelievably good healthy chocolate chip muffins! Rich chocolate flavor, soft & moist crumb and gorgeous notes of vanilla.
Great Tools for the Best Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Almond Flour: this almond flour is super finely ground and blanched, making for amazing flour-like quality in these chocolate chip muffins.
- Try these paleo chocolate chunks that are vegan, gluten free and refined sugar-free. Keeping your sugar low? Use these stevia-sweetened sugar-free chocolate chips instead. 😉
- Unbleached Muffin Liners or Nonstick Parchment Muffin Liners: I love both of these and swap which ones I use from time to time. The unbleached ones are compostable and stick just-enough to the muffins while the nonstick ones will literally fall off after cooling (perfect for those who hate liners that stick!).
- Large Scoop: for super easy muffin batter distribution. I love using this large scoop to distribute muffin batter quickly and evenly to each muffin cup.
Are you ready to have your muffin-print socks blasted off!? I mean, these healthy chocolate chip muffins are that good. Try your hand at making them, and let me know what you think in the comments below! I’m so grateful that you’re here, sharing in these baking adventures with me and the fam. ‘Til the next one…
Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️
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More Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Healthy Moist Vegan Zucchini Muffins w/ Chocolate Chips
- Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe
- Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe (GF, Vegan, Dairy Free)
- Gluten Free Vegan Dark Chocolate Muffins Recipe (Dairy Free)
- Just for fun: Healthy Lemon Raspberry Muffins Recipe
Best Ever Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Prep Time: 25 mins
- Cook Time: 29 mins
- Total Time: 54 minutes
- Yield: 10-12 muffins 1x
Description
BEST EVER Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins: soft & tender muffins with a perfectly moist and fluffy crumb, sweet vanilla flavor, and bursting with melty chocolate chips. Tastes like chocolate chip cookies in muffin form!
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups gluten free oat flour – if using homemade oat flour, make sure it’s very finely ground (not coarse)*
- ½ cup finely ground, blanched almond flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Wet Ingredients
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoons water
- ½ cup non-dairy milk
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil
- ¼ cup coconut sugar
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Add-in Ingredients
- 1 cup mini sugar free chocolate chips or refined sugar free chocolate, chopped
Optional Topping
- 2–3 tablespoons mini sugar free chocolate chips or refined sugar free chocolate, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with muffin liners. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, sift together all the dry ingredients: oat flour, almond flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
- Add water and milk to a microwave-safe bowl. Heat in 10-second increments until just warm. This will prevent the melted coconut oil from solidifying once mixed with these liquids.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together all wet ingredients: water, milk, lemon juice, coconut oil, coconut sugar, maple syrup and vanilla. Whisk until well incorporated.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Whisk until just incorporated, making sure no flour patches remain. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Pour batter evenly into prepared muffin pan—I spread mine into 10 muffin cups for large, full muffins, but you can do 12. Optionally, top with chocolate chips. Lightly press chips into batter.
- Bake for 26-32 minutes. Mine took 29 minutes. Insert a toothpick to check for doneness—once it comes out clean, it’s done. Place muffin pan on a cooling rack to cool for 30 minutes. Gently remove muffins from muffin pan and transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely, about 1.5 hours. Enjoy! Storing instructions below.
More Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Healthy Moist Vegan Zucchini Muffins w/ Chocolate Chips
- Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe
- Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe (GF, Vegan, Dairy Free)
Notes
Where to Buy Ingredients:
- Almond Flour
- CHOCOLATE:
- Stevia-Sweetened: Mini Sugar Free Chocolate Chips
- Paleo: Paleo Chocolate Chunks
- Vegan: Vegan Chocolate Chips.
A Note on Homemade Oat Flour: *If using homemade oat flour, make sure to blend the flour until very fine and sift the flour to remove coarse bits of oats that could create less than ideal results. Store until needed, then measure the amount required for the recipe.
Storing Instructions: Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week in a cool, dark environment.
To Freeze: Store in an airtight container or bag, in the freezer for up to 1-2 months. Allow to thaw for about 30 minutes at room temperature before enjoying. Or, heat in the microwave in 10-second increments until just warm.
Recommended Tools: Large Scoop | Unbleached Muffin Liners or Nonstick Parchment Muffin Liners | Muffin Pans (2pk)
- Category: Dessert, Breakfast, Snack
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: healthy chocolate chip muffins
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I haven’t tried this receipe yet but I have tried some of your other recipes. They are great. I have a question I cannot have almond flour so how much more oat flour would I need to substitute. I haven’t gotten any emails about receipes from you in awhile hope all is well
Hi Maros! I’d say to swap the almond flour with 6 tablespoons oat flour, though it will have a bit of a different texture. Not sure why you haven’t been getting the emails. Maybe check your spam filter?
I don’t have coconut sugar and like things on the less sweet side- would it be ok to leave it out and just use the 1/4 cup of maple syrup?
Hi Sasha. I would not recommend leaving the sugar out completely as it will affect the texture and taste of the muffins quite a bit. You could try swapping it for organic brown sugar, though I haven’t tried that specific sweetener in this recipe myself. If you do, let me know how it goes! 🙂
Thank you! I’ll try the original recipe and see how it goes 🙂 Are these muffins very sweet as written?
Hi Demeter
I was wondering what be substituted for the almond flour? Extra oat but how much? I love your recipes have made several of them they are all great and tasty. Can you maybe someday have a recipe for scones and fresh baked bread for sandwiches.
Thank you
Be Well and Safe
Maria
Hi Maria, try subbing the almond flour with 1/4 cup extra oat flour. The muffins won’t be as light and fluffy, but should be pretty close. I’ll add your recipe requests to an ongoing list of recipes to develop. 🙂 Be well and safe too! Sending you big hugs.
I love how buttery these turn out. The chocolate is the perfect combination with the buttery muffin.
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I’m so happy to hear it, Laura. Happy baking & eating! 🙂
If someone can’t have almonds, could I substitute another flour for the almond flour? Maybe walnut flour? Thanks!
Hi Steph, I haven’t tried using walnut flour, but that would probably be a close enough substitute. If you try it, I would love to hear how it turns out. Happy baking! 🙂
Can applesauce substitute for the coconut oil? Thanks!
Hi Pamela, since it’s such a small amount, you just might! Since these muffins are pretty moist as-is, you *might* try reducing the applesauce to 2 tablespoons. Let me know how they turn out!
I made a batch of these muffins this morning and they are all gone already! So delicious!
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Wow that’s so wonderful to hear Anna! I’m so happy you enjoyed them! 🙂
I loved every one of these ingredients! I think almond flour is the best gluten free flour and the muffins backed up so nice. Thank you!
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Aww thanks Ginny! So happy you liked them!
So yummy! I love the use of almond and oat flour – a great way to make a much more healthy muffin!
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Exactly, such a healthy (and tasty) combo! 😋
Any substitute for the oat flour (we have many allergies, one of which is oat)?
Hi Noreen, you might be able to use gluten free all purpose flour. I’m not sure since I haven’t tried it and I find that each brand of GF AP flour yields different results. Good luck!
Hi
I loved it 😍 .
Are the cups used the same as that we use in the standard standards and what can we use instead of coconut sugar & maple syrup?
Hi Rasha! So happy you enjoyed the muffins! All the measurements are made using standard US measurements. As for the sweeteners, I’ve had other readers use brown sugar or date sugar in place of the coconut sugar and honey or brown rice syrup in place of the maple syrup. I haven’t tried it myself in this recipe, so I can’t say for sure. Let me know how it goes!
I definitely need these in my life! A healthy chocolate chip muffin that tastes amazing? What’s not to love!
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Haha exactly! There’s just so much to love about this recipe. 😊
I’m feeling very lucky because I have all the ingredients in the kitchen now to make these muffins. The texture looks perfect!
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Woohoo! Isn’t it the best when that happens? 😊 Happy baking!
Can’t believe all the healthy stuff in here!
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Thanks Amanda! I just love a guilt-free muffin. 😉