Zucchini Chocolate Banana Muffins Recipe

Best zucchini chocolate banana muffins or loaf with chocolate chips that will knock your socks off! A great way to use overripe bananas for breakfast or a yummy dessert.

Chocolate Zucchini Banana Muffins

The key to these is the integration of both shredded vegetables (zucchini) AND brown bananas. So basically they’re healthy right?? 😉

I started by gathering many of the same ingredients I would to make my moist zucchini bread except adding a few more. A bit like our zucchini brownie recipe. You can make these double chocolate chip muffins by adding a few more chips on the top before baking too.

I know, super easy muffin recipe right?? This is basically what you’ll need. I wouldn’t substitute anything, both zucchini and banana are really a must to get this moist!

Double Chocolate Banana Muffins

When making any type of banana muffins, make sure they’re quite brown but not completely black. If you aren’t ready to make something and they’re pretty overripe just put them in the fridge to slow it down.

• VERY overripe bananas
• Zucchini
• Eggs
• Chocolate chips
  • extra 1/2 cup could be sprinkled on top too
• Dark cocoa powder
  • if you don’t have this, follow our banana nutella muffins recipe instead
• Vanilla extract
• Oil
• Baking powder and baking soda
• Cinnamon
• Sugar
• Brown sugar
• Muffin tin and papers are very helpful

Zucchini Chocolate Banana Muffins

What is the most popular muffin flavor?

That depends on whom you ask but blueberry muffins are usually on the top. Banana bread muffins would be second followed by pumpkin muffins that we add zucchini to as well!

Our chocolate zucchini muffins are delicious with the addition of more chips is SO moist because of the fruit and vegetable bits. If you wanted to cut the sweetness you could add 1/3 cup sugar instead of 1/2. It isn’t overly sweet though with the dark chocolate.

Chocolate Banana Zucchini Muffins

Here’s a brief step by step with a printable recipe card at the bottom of this post. Mash bananas and shred zucchini. Put zucchini on paper towels and roll up. Put over sink and squeeze to remove all the excess moisture you can.

In a medium bowl combine the Dark Chocolate Cocoa powder, Flour, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, and Salt. Add in the Cinnamon and combine. Set aside. Inside a separate bowl combine Canola oil, vanilla, white and brown sugars. Add eggs, grated zucchini, and mashed bananas to wet ingredients and combine well. Fold in the dry ingredients.

• Lightly flour chocolate chips and fold into the batter * The flour will help the chocolate chips not sink to the bottom of the muffins.
• Scoop batter evenly into cupcake liners. (can add more chips on top of each one on top)
• Place in preheated oven for 17-20 mins. or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
• You can make a smaller batch of air fryer muffins using this timing, or this is how long to bake mini muffins.

Want to make mini muffins instead? No problem. I would just bake shorter, I have a link to those above because they are so popular with little ones. Just pop them into your mouth as the perfect breakfast finger foods.

How do I tell if muffins are done without a toothpick?

I never use one of those, I am lazy. Plus I think you can tell so easily whether they should be taken out so why bother. Just gently touch the center with your finger and if it springs back up they’re done.

The key to this is to NOT over bake them or they’ll dry out. That is the opposite of what you want for these. It is a great recipe and too much time won’t give you the results you want.

What to Add to Banana Muffins

I hope we have answered that question for you here. Shredded veggies like this adds a ton of moisture and the chocolate just makes it over the top yum. Want to bake even more muffins? We have a ton! We have even made dinner muffin tin recipes like meatloaf and even chicken pot pie muffins in them too.

• We have a lot of zucchini recipes on our site because they turn out so well.
• If you like using greek yogurt to making them moist, try our blueberry banana muffins.
• You can make our pumpkin chocolate bread into muffins, 18 – 20 minutes usually is the perfect timing.
• This is how to make pancake mix muffins.
• For a throw it together treat, blender muffins are pretty fun. We integrated peanut butter in these as a special treat.

It may sound weird, but this banana bread with mayonnaise recipe is killer too. Now jump to recipe and get started y’all!