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Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (Vegan, GF, Dairy-Free)

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Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (V, GF): an easy recipe for deliciously moist ‘n rich vegan dark chocolate mint muffins bursting with festive peppermint flavors & melty chocolate chips! Made with healthy ingredients. Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Whole Grain.

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Let me just say for the record: these gluten free moist mint dark chocolate chip muffins are my favorite chocolate muffins ever. Make that my favorite vegan gluten free muffins ever. Make that—oh you know where I’m going with this!

They’re moist, rich, decadent, bake up with THE most beautiful domed-top, completely ready to SA-TIS-FY your every chocolate craving… and did I mention MOIST? Just the right amount—not too wet, not too dry. Just right. Like the littlest bear’s porridge. Lol. I mean, just look at this! ↓

Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (V, GF): an easy recipe for deliciously moist ‘n rich vegan dark chocolate mint muffins bursting with festive peppermint flavors & melty chocolate chips! Made with healthy ingredients. #HealthyBaking #Vegan #VeganGlutenFree #VeganBaking #Christmas #BeamingBaker #VeganChristmas #DarkChocolate #HealthyDesserts #MintChocolate | Recipe at BeamingBaker.com

How did I come about this mint chocolate chip muffins recipe, you ask? Okay, you didn’t, but I’m just talking to myself here, work with me!! 😉 Well, almost twice a week, or every day, I think about my Easy Gluten Free Vegan Dark Chocolate Muffins. Not just because I’m weird, but also because these babies have been one of my most popular recipes since I shared them in January.

They literally make the Top 10-15 every day. Come on!! That’s even with No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars, Gluten Free Vegan Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies and my Vegan Chocolate Cake Recipe in mind. Those recipes get crazy hits every day!

Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (V, GF): an easy recipe for deliciously moist ‘n rich vegan dark chocolate mint muffins bursting with festive peppermint flavors & melty chocolate chips! Made with healthy ingredients. #HealthyBaking #Vegan #VeganGlutenFree #VeganBaking #Christmas #BeamingBaker #VeganChristmas #DarkChocolate #HealthyDesserts #MintChocolate | Recipe at BeamingBaker.com

Anywho, I think about them often since I see them at the top of my analytics every day, but also, because of one thing in particular: a critique that always stuck with me… that they’re “dry in the mouth.” Now, I’ve had tons of readers say they were perfect in every way, Erik assures me that they’re his absolute fave, etc. He’s constantly asking me to make a batch—then I’ll give him a dirty look and he’ll go make them himself.

But, still!

There’s always room for improvement, right? 😉

So I went back to the drawing board. But I promised to only make the subtlest of changes, without taking away everything that’s amazing with the original vegan dark chocolate muffins.

Happily, since I shared those vegan dark chocolate muffins, I’ve tested, baked (okay, same thing! Hehe), gotten feedback, shared, etc. more and more muffin recipes that y’all could need. And I still get requests for even more gluten free muffin recipes! So… not more than you could need. 😉

Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (V, GF): an easy recipe for deliciously moist ‘n rich vegan dark chocolate mint muffins bursting with festive peppermint flavors & melty chocolate chips! Made with healthy ingredients. #HealthyBaking #Vegan #VeganGlutenFree #VeganBaking #Christmas #BeamingBaker #VeganChristmas #DarkChocolate #HealthyDesserts #MintChocolate | Recipe at BeamingBaker.com

I’ve shared a variety of muffins, from Vegan Gluten Free Pumpkin Muffins, Gluten Free Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins, to Healthy Banana Blueberry Muffins, Gluten Free Banana Oat Muffins, Gluten Free Maple Pecan Pumpkin Muffins, Moist Gluten Free Chocolate Pumpkin Muffins, Orange Cardamom Muffins, Healthy Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins… and more.

In all of that time, experience, and feedback-gathering, I learned one big thing: folks LOVE their moist muffins! So, I applied what I learned from those muffins to these chocolate peppermint muffins—keep ‘em just the right amount of dense and light, moist, substantive (no one wants a light-as-air muffin bc they feel like they’re not gettin’ their bang for their buck, so to speak), and with a beautiful domed top.

Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (V, GF): an easy recipe for deliciously moist ‘n rich vegan dark chocolate mint muffins bursting with festive peppermint flavors & melty chocolate chips! Made with healthy ingredients. #HealthyBaking #Vegan #VeganGlutenFree #VeganBaking #Christmas #BeamingBaker #VeganChristmas #DarkChocolate #HealthyDesserts #MintChocolate | Recipe at BeamingBaker.com

With these Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins, consider all of those boxes CHECKED. Done and done, folks! If all of this was too long to read, and you’re here for just the bulletpoints, you got it! These gluten free chocolate chip peppermint muffins are:

So are you ready to bake these deliciously healthy & moist chocolate mint muffins? Let’s do it! I’ll grab the peppermint extract, you grab the cocoa powder! I can’t wait to hear what you think of this recipe. It’s seriously such a joy to share in these sweet moments with you. Wishing you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season! ‘Til next time…

Sending you all my love and maybe even a dove, xo Demeter ❤️

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Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (V, GF): an easy recipe for deliciously moist ‘n rich vegan dark chocolate mint muffins bursting with festive peppermint flavors & melty chocolate chips! Made with healthy ingredients. #HealthyBaking #Vegan #VeganGlutenFree #VeganBaking #Christmas #BeamingBaker #VeganChristmas #DarkChocolate #HealthyDesserts #MintChocolate | Recipe at BeamingBaker.com

Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (Vegan, GF, Dairy-Free)

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Gluten Free Moist Mint Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins (V, GF): an easy recipe for deliciously moist ‘n rich dark chocolate mint muffins bursting with festive peppermint flavors & melty chocolate chips! Made with healthy ingredients.

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Ingredients

Dry Ingredients

Wet Ingredients

  • ½ cup + 2 tablespoons water
  • ½ cup + 2 tablespoons non-dairy milk
  • 3 tablespoons melted coconut oil
  • ¼ cup coconut sugar
  • ¼ cup pure maple syrup
  • 1 ¾ teaspoons pure peppermint extract
  • ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Add-in Ingredients

  • 1 cup vegan chocolate chips

Optional Topping

Instructions

    1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a 12-cup muffin pan with cupcake liners. Set aside.
    2. In a large bowl, sift together the dry ingredients: oat flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.

 

  1. 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.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together all wet ingredients: water, milk, coconut oil, sugar, maple syrup and extracts. Whisk until well incorporated.
  3. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Whisk until just incorporated, making sure no flour patches remain. Fold in chocolate chips.
  4. Pour batter evenly into prepared muffin pan—filling each cup about 3/4 of the way for a greater quantity of smaller muffins, or all the way to the top for a smaller quantity of big, domed-top muffins. Bake for 16-24 minutes (on the higher end for larger muffins). Mine took 24 minutes for larger muffins. Insert a toothpick to test for doneness—it should come out mostly dry, with a few muffin bits on it.
  5. Place muffin pan on a cooling rack to cool for 30 minutes. Remove muffins from muffin pan and continue cooling on rack until completely cool, 1-3 hours. Enjoy! Storing instructions below.

    Adapted from my Easy Gluten Free Vegan Dark Chocolate Muffins.

    Also try my 5 minute Easy Peppermint Fudge, my Moist & Fudgy Ganache Peppermint Brownies and my Vegan Gluten Free Chocolate Cupcakes.

Notes

– Storage notes: Store in an airtight container for up to 1 week.
– Freezing instructions: store in a freezer-friendly, airtight container for 1-2 months. Allow to thaw at room temperature for 15-30 minutes before enjoying. Or, heat in the microwave in 10-second increments until warm.

  • Category: Muffins, Breakfast, Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Healthy, Refined Sugar-Free
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Here are a few items I used in today’s recipe. 🙂

Muffin Pan | Parchment Cupcake Liners | Peppermint Extract | Gluten Free Oat Flour | Unsweetened Cocoa Powder | Coconut Oil | Maple Syrup | Coconut Sugar | Cooling Rack | Ice Cream Scoop (for easier muffin batter handling/scooping) | Glass Mixing Bowls | Bellemain Stainless Steel 3 Cup Flour Sifter

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  2. Amanda says

    February 12, 2019 at 3:18 pm

    Just made these without the mint, and they came out perfectly! Used pre-milled GF oat flour so the texture is super light. Decided to leave out the chocolate chips in the batter and just scatter a few on top, along with some sprinkles. Oh, and I used cacao instead of cocoa powder, and they worked great 🙂 Thank you for this recipe!

    ★★★★★

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    • Demeter | Beaming Baker says

      February 12, 2019 at 3:10 pm

      Hi Upasana! I’ve had some readers use rice flour, though I haven’t mused. Any GF all purpose flour blend will also work. Happy baking! 🙂

      Reply

  5. Patti says

    December 13, 2018 at 3:43 pm

    Hi! Can I use regular milk if I don’t need dairy free and I don’t have powdered? Would I use the same amount? Thanks!

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  6. marci cohen says

    December 13, 2018 at 8:46 am

    i am allergic to oats. i subbed in a combo of almond flour/arrowroot and OMG…these are unbelievable. the texture is just like that of a regular muffin. i am already planning on making minis (maybe topped with crushed candy canes) for holiday snacks.

    ★★★★★

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    • Demeter | Beaming Baker says

      December 14, 2018 at 3:55 pm

      Hi Marci! That’s awesome! How much did you use of each? I’m sure other readers would love to know. Also, these muffins topped with candy canes sound AMAZING!!

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        • Michelle says

          December 30, 2018 at 1:29 pm

          I just made these using almond flour and they were sunk down in that middle. I only used 1 1/2 cups…so now I’m guessing that it was the flour that was off. Thank you! Will try again

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          • Demeter | Beaming Baker says

            January 1, 2019 at 1:30 pm

            Hi Michelle! Unfortunately, I wouldn’t recommend using almond flour instead of oat flour in these muffins. Almond flour is much more moist & less absorbent than oat flour… so the amount of wet ingredients wouldn’t be balanced right. Try these with oat flour, you’ll love them! 🙂

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  8. Tammi says

    December 12, 2018 at 7:17 am

    Thank you for this delicious recipe. I used vanilla and almond extract since my daughter didn’t want mint and it was fine. They remind me of a very moist Hostess chocolate cake without the filling and icing. My husband, who doesn’t usually try sweets I can eat, ate two of these and loved them..
    I am thankful to have found your site. Being gluten, dairy and egg free makes it difficult for this baker to make a sweet treat I can eat.

    ★★★★★

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    • Demeter | Beaming Baker says

      December 13, 2018 at 5:45 pm

      Woohoo! So happy to hear everyone enjoyed them! ☺️ Oh yes, I have been thinking about making v/gf Hostess cupcakes for quite a while now. . So happy had you found the site too Tammi!

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  13. Tina says

    December 10, 2018 at 12:07 pm

    Lovely recipe. Cakes look so yummy! Could I replace the cocoa powder with cocao powder and would it be the same quantity as stated in the recipe?

    ★★★★★

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