These Vegan Chocolate Yogurt Muffins are packed full of chocolatey goodness, moisture from yogurt, no added oil and are rich and decadent. They are super fluffy, gluten-free and made in one bowl!
VEGAN CHOCOLATE YOGURT MUFFINS
These vegan chocolate yogurt muffins turned out to be some of the best muffins I’ve ever had. They are SO rich and moist, you’d never know they had no oil or butter in them!
Using a dairy-free yogurt gave them some serious moisture, fluff and richness.
INGREDIENTS NEEDED
Full amounts listed on the recipe card below. Only 9 main ingredients needed!
- Superfine oat flour
- Tapioca starch
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Baking soda and salt
- Dairy-free plain unsweetened yogurt
- Unsweetened applesauce
- Pure maple syrup or agave
- Vanilla extract
- Dairy-free semi-sweet chocolate chips
HOW TO MAKE CHOCOLATE YOGURT MUFFINS
Add all of the ingredients to a large bowl.
Divide the batter into 12 liners in a muffin pan.
Top with extra chocolate chips if desired!
Bake 20-22 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean.
Look at how fluffy these babies rise! Hard to believe they are gluten-free and no eggs!
Cool 5 minutes in the pan and then transfer to cool another 20 minutes minimum on a cooling rack. This allows the muffins to continue to finish cooking and firm up. Cooling these is necessary since they are gluten-free.
I mean, come on, would you just look at that inside texture?! Moist, chocolatey, fluffy, decadent and addicting! Try these vegan chocolate muffins out and leave feedback below!
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Vegan Chocolate Yogurt Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup + 6 tablespoons (176g) superfine oat flour Use certified gluten-free if needed
- 4 tablespoons (32g) tapioca starch
- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons (36g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda, not powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
- 1/2 cup (160g) pure maple syrup or agave
- 6 tablespoons (90) dairy-free unsweetened plain yogurt
- 1/4 cup (60g) unsweetened applesauce
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons (150g) water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup (160g) semi-sweet dairy-free chocolate chips
NOTE
- Always highly recommend to use a scale for accuracy when baking, following MY gram weights listed. You never need cups to compare, just the scale and bowl, making sure to hit zero before each addition. This will ensure much more accurate results than cups, since we all measure differently.
- I use this scale.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F and line a muffin pan with 12 nonstick parchment paper liners.
- To a large bowl, add the oat flour, starch, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and whisk well to ensure there are no lumps and well mixed.
- To the same bowl, add the syrup, yogurt, applesauce, water, vanilla and chocolate chips and gently stir until just combined. Do not overmix.
- Divide the batter into each muffin liner. I like to use an ice cream scoop for the perfect amount and dome tops.
- Top with extra chocolate chips if desired!
- Bake for 20 minutes until a toothpick comes out completely clean in the center of a muffin. Tip: Don't confuse the wet chocolate chips from the wet batter.
- Cool 5 minutes in the pan and then transfer to cool another 15 minutes on a cooling rack. This allows the muffins to continue to finish cooking and firm up. Trying to eat them too early will cause the muffins to crumble. Cooling these is necessary since they are gluten-free.
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Question: Can I make this recipe in a loaf or cake pan instead? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
Hi Eileen! I have never tried that and not sure if it would end up crumbly or too dense! Sometimes recipes only work as muffins because they are much smaller and don’t always transfer to work in large amounts. I’ve just not tried it.
Best muffin recipe ever!!! Tastes like chocolate cake. Thank you for a great addition to my collection of vegan, no oil, gluten free recipes.
That is so wonderful to hear you loved these Cindy, thank you so much for the review!
I think I left a comment last year but came back to say again how amazingly delicious these are. I made them this morning to share with my 2 year old grandson. He gives them a big thumbs up too!
SO very lovely to hear this Laurie, thank you!!
These are so easy and delicious! I like how this uses some healthier ingredients. Will make again and thank you for the recipe!
Wow, wow, and of course another another wow. I have never made gluten free muffins that are this divine. This certainly has to become my go to receipe I followed it to the “T” and guess what, it’s just as good as yours. With sincere thanks and appreciation for this delicious delightful recipe.
This makes me so happy to hear Nadhira!!
These cookies are so satisfying as well as easy to make. I like to cut back on Sugar so I used 1/2 cup of mini semisweet chocolate chips and 4 tablespoons of maple syrup instead of 6 tablespoons. I also had roasted walnuts I needed to use and added them in. I had no almond butter so I used the end of the jar of peanutbutter. The cookies were great. Thank-you for the vegan recipe as well as your additional notes of information.
These cookies are so satisfying as well as easy to make. I like to cut back on Sugar so I used 1/2 cup of mini semisweet chocolate chips and 4 tablespoons of maple syrup instead of 6 tablespoons. I also had roasted walnuts I needed to use and added them in. I had no almond butter so I used the end of the jar of peanutbutter. The cookies were great. Thank-you for the vegan recipe as well as your additional notes of information.
Absolutely delicious! Even my kids loved it. Letting the muffins cool was key for maintaining a normal texture. I’m so impressed and excited!
Very happy to hear that Rachel!
These are absolutely delicious and so easy! One question I have is do you think some sort of nut butter would work in them?
Adding nut butter is going to change the texture to more dense and less light and fluffy. I have lots of other muffin recipes on the website, but since these were written with specific ingredients, changing them will always alter the results and I can’t say without testing it. If you want to use nut butter, check out my almond butter cake or any of my cookie recipes.
These are delicious and SO easy!!! Thank you!