Recipe Collection: Coconut Chocolate Muffins

At the moment, we’re grain-free, so we were really missing bread. I borrowed the original version of this recipe from Ann Marie at Cheeseslave, then made a few changes to suit our tastes and allergies (we can’t do blueberries). I believe she found the recipe in Bruce Fife’s Cooking with Coconut Flour: A Delicious, Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat. I haven’t read the book yet myself, but I’d like to!

Our result was pretty yummy! Bekah LOVES them and eats 8 or 9 per day (I made mini-muffins so that’s not as much as it sounds like). Here it is:

Ingredients:
6 eggs, pastured and at room temperature
1/4 c. coconut oil
1/4 c. coconut milk
1/4 c. raw honey
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. coconut flour
1/4 c. raw cacao powder
1/2 tsp. baking soda

Directions:
Cream together honey and coconut oil. Blend in coconut milk, then eggs (if eggs are cold, you will get lumps of coconut oil mix throughout your batter). Add vanilla and salt, stir. Add cacao and stir in, then add coconut flour and baking soda and mix thoroughly (some suggest mixing the dry ingredients separately, but I’m too lazy).

Bake at 400 for 15 min. Or, 10 minutes for mini-muffins. This will make one dozen regular muffins, and 3 dozen or so mini muffins.

These are super nutrient dense, too, without being too sweet and totally grain-free! Coconut is great for you, and so is raw cacao.

Bonus recipe!!

Okay, most of you will NEVER try this. But Bekah loves this. It is “candy” she can have.

Ingredients:
2 oz. unsweetened chocolate (99% pure cacao)
3/4 c. coconut oil
1 vanilla bean, scraped out
1/2 c. unsweetened coconut flakes (opt.)
1 tsp. mint extract (opt.)

Directions:
In a medium saucepan, melt chocolate and coconut oil over low heat. Add the caviar (the part you scraped out) from the vanilla bean. Stir until smooth and mixed. Add coconut flakes and/or mint extract if desired. Pour into a small pan (8×8 or smaller) and freeze for 20 – 30 minutes or until hard. Store, covered, in the fridge.

This is completely unsweetened candy. Super nutrient-dense, super rich. Most of us couldn’t stomach it because it is really bitter. But for those who don’t have much of a sweet tooth, this is pretty good. You could also add 2 – 3 tbsp. raw honey if you’d like a lightly sweet candy. But it is smooth, rich, and very interesting unsweetened. :)

 

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Kate Tietje
Kate is wife to Ben and mommy to Bekah (5), Daniel (3.5), Jacob (18 months), and baby #4, due to arrive in March 2013. She is passionate about God, health, and food. She has written 7 cookbooks already and is releasing a book entitled A Practical Guide to Children's Health in March 2013. When she's not blogging, she's in the kitchen, sewing, or homeschooling her children. You can also find her as a contributor at Keeper of the Home and Food...Your Way.

4 Comments on "Recipe Collection: Coconut Chocolate Muffins"

  1. Liesel Kautz says:

    You can buy 100% cacao Ghiridelli baking chocolate at WF. I have a bar for you from San Fran though :)

  2. Kat says:

    Oh these look good, I might just have to give them a try :) I’m on full SCD/GAPS and have added back in chocolate and doing well with that. Glad you are blogging about your experiences and sharing recipes!

  3. Melissa Varney says:

    The list of foods on the GAPS diet says you can’t have cocoa powder.

    • Kate Tietje says:

      Hi Melissa — Yes. But some who have been on GAPS for awhile and feel that they are closer to healing choose to include it. Also, you can substitute carob powder if you prefer.

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