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Chocolatetastic zucchini courgette muffins

November 21, 2011 By Kerry Cooks 10 Comments

Chocolate zucchini courgette muffin

Zucchini is what americans call courgettes (I’m on the fence as to which is the better name – courgette seems more appropriate but zucchini is a cooler name!). I like incororating courgette into lots of meals as its inexpensive and doesn’t have a strong flavour – it would be a good veggie to sneak into kids meals for the same reason!

I was curious to try a sweet courgette recipe – there are lots of them, from courgette bread to cakes. Lots of recipes pair courgette with chocolate so I decided to try that! First, preheat your oven to around 170 degrees C, gas 6/7 (or whatever medium temperature you use to bake muffins).

  • 3 cups grated fresh zucchini OR courgette
  • 200g plain chocolate, cut into chunks
  • 1 2/3 cup soft unsalted butter
  • 1 1/3 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda/powder
  • Pinch salt
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour

Mix your butter and sugar, by hand or with a mixer, whatever you feel like. Add the beaten eggs and vanill extract or essence before incorporating your flour and baking powder and salt.

Once your batter has come together, add your grated courgette. This is an extremely terrible picture I took inside my new stainless steel bowl!

Chocolate zucchini courgette muffin batter

The chocolate I used for the chocolate chunks was a plain/bournville type (I have a soft spot for bournville!) of chocolate from the supermarket. I prefer using chocolate bars and cutting them into chunks than chocolate chips as they are bigger and chunkier (clearly!) and have more texture/interest.

Chocolate zucchini courgette muffin

Let’s get a closer look at that muffin top…

Everything they say about courgette in cake recipes is true! The flavour blends seemlessly into the chocolate and makes the muffin incredibly moist. Make them for your friends or workmates and they’ll be dubious at first, but soon they’ll be putty in your hands…

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Filed Under: Baking, Chocolate Heaven Tagged With: chocolate, courgette, Muffin, Recipe, Zucchini

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  1. Milk and Honey says

    August 1, 2013 at 9:55 am

    Australians call them zucchinis too. Love these muffins.

    Reply
    • Kerry Cooks says

      August 1, 2013 at 10:20 am

      I love how Australia has this mix of britishisms and americanisms!

      Reply
  2. steelcitykitchen says

    August 14, 2012 at 11:09 am

    Just what I’m looking for! I’ve got loads of courgettes in the garden at the moment so need lots of different recipes to use them up, these look delicious!

    Reply
  3. Julia says

    November 21, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    They look yummy! G&B have got a good chocolate and courgette loaf 🙂

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      November 22, 2011 at 9:12 am

      Green and blacks? do they sell cakes?!

      Reply
  4. Neipori Maria says

    November 21, 2011 at 10:18 pm

    This is unbelievable! Chocolate and courgette? You’ve intrigued me, I’ll have to try.

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      November 22, 2011 at 9:12 am

      Thanks Maria! Its very yum!

      Reply
  5. Susannah Bianchi says

    November 21, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    How in the world do you stay so slim baking this way?

    Now I want to go the bakery, so will you excuse me?

    SB

    Reply
    • kerrycooks says

      November 22, 2011 at 9:12 am

      Well I’m more curvy than slim but I do have a treadmill in my house which helps a little!

      Reply

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