Moist and nutritious Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins made with Almond Flour: A secretly veggie-loaded, low carb, paleo-friendly and gluten-free treat that makes for the perfect sweet breakfast bake.

Here’s some of the best tips for baking treats with almond flour to make sure all your low carb bread and muffin recipes turn out perfectly delicious every time!

5 attempts later, and this recipe is FINALLY ready to go. Yes, that’s how many tries it took me to get this one right. Even needed a friend to test it out for me.

There’s plenty of almond flour zucchini muffins and zucchini bread recipes out there that I could have gone off of, but none of them worked because I wanted to make them super healthy.

Why are these chocolate chip zucchini muffins healthy?

These zucchini muffins are made with almond flour and coconut flour instead of all-purpose or even whole wheat.
No oil or butter! Most recipes include a ton of oil or butter or even ghee, but these muffins (or bread) does not need any since there’s enough fat from the almond flour.
No sugar, honey, agave or even maple syrup in these muffins, just a bit of stevia – the perfect low carb almond flour recipe.
How could I forget the Zucchini? You’re getting some veggie intake in a delicious treat. Definitely plus points there.

With no sugar or butter, these healthy sugar free chocolate chip zucchini muffins (or bread) are also made with almond flour and coconut flour for a paleo friendly, gluten free and low carb recipe.

Best tips for Almond Flour baking recipes:

Almond flour is a lot denser than regular flour – even wheat flour – so you need to up the leavening (i.e. the baking powder or soda).
There’s no gluten in this nut flour, so when making almond flour muffins or bread (zucchini or not), you need to add some extra binding component, which here is the egg.
Flaxseeds would work great too.
If you add something like zucchini that adds a ton of moisture (even if you squeeze out as much liquid as possible), together with some of the fat released from the almond flour when mixing it in, you might just get a soggy mess; Avoid it by adding coconut flour as an absorbent.

These paleo and low carb chocolate chip zucchini muffins are made with almond flour, coconut flour and yogurt, but you can turn it into a healthy zucchini bread, or even use applesauce or mashed banana.

How do you make these almond flour zucchini bread muffins?

Shred or finely chop the zucchini and squeeze out all the liquid possible using a dish cloth or paper towels.
This is extremely important or the muffins will be too wet. Trust me.
Mix the dry ingredients: Almond flour, coconut flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt.
Whisk together the wet ingredients: Eggs, yogurt, almond milk and vanilla.
Combine wet and dry, and mix.
Fold in the zucchini and chocolate chips (but keep some aside for the top)
Line a muffin tin and divide the batter equally among all.
Top with chocolate chips and bake for 28 minutes at 350°F.

Dietary Restrictions?

Paleo: Since these chocolate chip zucchini muffins are made with almond flour and coconut, there’s no grains involved;
Gluten free: Same as above, just almond meal/flour, no grain or gluten in anyway.
Sugar Free: These muffins are naturally sweetened with stevia sweetener, the *tiny* bit of banana and even the almond flour to some extent, so there’s no added sugar added – which also makes them low carb.
Make sure to use stevia-sweetened chocolate chips as well though; I used the ones from Lily’s.
Dairy free: There’s no butter or milk here, just a bit of almond milk to help with giving a little moisture. No more lactose concerns!

Some customizations:

Turn these muffins into a chocolate chip zucchini bread, and you have a giant treat that’s still low carb, gluten free, sugar free and dairy free.
Replace the yogurt with mashed banana or applesauce of the same amount, but make sure you keep the chocolate chips and zucchini in there or it just won’t be the same.

Low carb, low sugar healthy zucchini bread muffins that are made without butter too - the perfect healthy treat to slice into even with the chocolate chips!

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