These low sugar chocolate chip muffins are big favorites around my house! I estimate them as having about 11 – 12 grams of sugar per muffin depending on what type of chocolate chips you use. This amount of sugar is hard to beat for a tasty muffin.
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Best Dark Chocolate Chips for Muffins
If you want to make them even lower in sugar, you can replace the dark chocolate chips with cocoa nibs or unsweetened chocolate chips. I did this once, but my kids did not approve, ha, ha!
My favorite chocolate chips are Guittard Extra Dark Chocolate Baking Chips. These chocolate chips are slightly bitter but still sweet enough to appease my kids. Any chocolate chips will work but go for dark chocolate if you wish to keep the sugar content low.
How to Make Muffins Without White Flour
This oat and almond flour combination is my personal favorite. I like the nutrient density of the almond flour but also like the typical muffin consistency that oat flour gives. Oat flour also tends to be a bit cheaper than most specially flours.
Is Oat Flour Gluten Free?
There is the debate on if oats are naturally gluten free, so you may want to buy gluten free oat flour or oats (to make your own) if you are unable to tolerate gluten. You can easily whip up a batch of oat flour with oats and a food processor.
The same goes for almond flour too, but it takes a bit more processing. I tend to push the easy button and just buy the pre-made flours.
One thing to note is that if you incorporate more dense flours like coconut, spelt or more extra almond flour you will need more to add more baking powder to get the muffins to rise.
I was the queen of flat muffins before discovering this tip. You can also bump up the oven temp. to say 425° for the first few minutes of baking. If you’re kids are like mine, they like fluffy muffins more than flat muffins even if the taste is exactly the same. Honestly, I do too!
What You Need to Make Muffins
For baking the muffins, I use a stainless-steel muffin pan with If You Care Baking Cups. The liner box says “large,” but they are standard muffin size. You can find these at Amazon (link above) and Target.
If You Care baking cups are Sweeden-made, unbleached/dyed and naturally non-stick. They are also FSC certified meaning they are made from responsibly maintained forests.
PaperChef is another safer option for non-toxic cupcake liners. PaperChef parchment liners are also bleach/dye free and naturally non-toxic. They are made in Canada.
Standard cupcake liners are dyed or bleached, coated in quilon (which isn’t so healthy) and made in China. I know—I love those cute patterns too!
You will need a large glass bowl, spatula and measuring cups to mix up the batter.
Low Sugar Chocolate Chip Muffins
Equipment
- 1 large mixing bowl
- 1 spatula
- 1 whisk or mixer
- 1 muffin pan
- 12 muffin liners
- 1 1-cup measuring cup
- 1 1/2-cup measuring cup
- 1 tablespoon
- 1 teaspoon
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups oat flour
- 1 cup almond (or coconut flour)
- 1 TB baking powder
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. sea salt
- 1/2 cup melted butter
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond or coconut milk
- 1/2 cup unsweetened plain or greek yogurt
- 1 TB vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Fill muffin tray with paper liners. In a large bowl, whisk together the melted butter, maple syrup, yogurt, eggs, milk and vanilla. Slowly add the dry ingredients: the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt and chocolate chips. Gently fold together until combined.Divide the batter into the 12 muffin cups and bake at 400°F for approximately 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean! Let cool for about 5-10 minutes and enjoy.
Notes
How to Store Muffins
You can store these muffins in any air-tight container on the counter for up to 4-5 days or store them in the fridge to extend their life a little. I just like to zap mine in the microwave for about 10 seconds prior to eating … this will make the chocolate chips nice and melty.
These muffins will also freeze and thaw nicely if you prefer to make multiple batches at one time. Some of my favorite options for freezing are glass storage containers or reusable silicone bags.
One of my favorite non-toxic storage containers (besides glass) is Stasher Silicone bags. They are thick, durable, freezer safe and easy to clean.
Turn a Chocolate Chip Muffin into a Double Chocolate Chip Muffin
One fun thing about this recipe is that you can a couple of tweaks and turn these into double chocolate muffins. I started out making half of the batch each way, but now I make two separate batches, because they go so fast!
The tweaks are simple and just require adding half a cup of cocoa and a little extra milk to counter it.
Let me know if you try this recipe and how it turns out for you. Warning, you may be asked to make them frequently! They don’t take too long to whip up once you get familiar with the recipe, and they are a simple treat that you can feel good about serving your family.
