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These low calorie Triple Chocolate Chunk Muffins are bursting with delicious chocolate flavor and low on calories.
You can enjoy these delicious muffins as a quick grab and go breakfast, a snack, or a dessert.
The kids loved these for an after school snack. They are moist and delicious. Plan on making a double batch because they are so good!
Low Calorie Triple Chocolate Chunk Muffins Recipe
These moist and delicious muffins are bursting with chocolate and great for breakfast, snack, or dessert.
Serving
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cup oats
- 3 egg white
- ¾ cup unsweetened cocoa
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ cup plain Greek yogurt
- ½ teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup hot water
- ¼ cup Stevia
- 2 Tablespoons Stevia
- ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Equipment
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line 2 (12-cup) muffin pans with cupcake liners, or spray muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a blender (or food processor), mix all of the ingredients together, except for the chocolate chips. Blend until oats are ground and mixture is smooth.
- Place mixture in a bowl and gently stir in 1/4 cup of chocolate chips (set the rest aside). Scoop mixture into prepared muffin pans.
- Place muffins tins in the oven for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, remove muffins from the oven (but don?t shut oven off), and distribute the other half (1/4 cup) of the chocolate chips on top of each muffin.*
- Place the muffins back into the oven and bake for an additional 2-5 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean. *Note, you could skip this step by putting all of the chips in the batter, and baking the muffins for 12-15 min straight, but this method gives the muffins the traditional VitaTop Muffin look with the chocolate chips on top!
- Cool muffins before removing from pan.
Notes
You can also sub the Stevia for 1 cup of granulated Splenda.
Nutrition
Calories: 59 kcal · Carbohydrates: 8 g · Protein: 2 g · Fat: 2 g · Saturated Fat: 1 g · Cholesterol: 1 mg · Sodium: 129 mg · Potassium: 104 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 2 g · Vitamin A: 3 IU · Vitamin C: 1 mg · Calcium: 29 mg · Iron: 1 mg
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I can’t wait to try this. I love baking, but always try to find a way to make it healthier.
I think I need a couple of these right now!
Would a cup of plain sugar be fine too? (obviously it would up the calories) I’ve yet to find an artificial sweetener that doesn’t give me a migraine, but otherwise these look awesome!
Sounds great and oh so tempting…if only I wasn’t allergic to yogurt.
For big size muffins? That is wonderful! All the recipes for low cal ones are always with small muffins. So this is awesome! Thanks!
YUM! Cannot wait to make these!!
I can’t stop at just one chocolate treat either:-) Love that these have so few calories in them!!! Yay for chocolate being healthy!!!
Just pinned! I can’t wait to make these!
That looks really yummy. I can?t wait to try this!
I tried these and they did not rise?
I think that would work just fine! 🙂
Definitely making these! I can never control my sweet tooth. And I’m trying desperately to limit my calorie intake…They look delicious. what sugar substitute do you use?
Hi Megan! I used Splenda. Hope you like them!
ok, now I went back to look at the recipe and see that in parentheses… I feel a little foolish. Thanks for answering anyway!
Any idea if these freeze well?
Hi Brooke!
I actually put our leftovers in a large Ziploc freezer bag and they were great! We would microwave them for a few seconds when we took them out and they tasted just as great as they did fresh!
Did you ever figure out why? Same thing just happened to me…
Hi there. I just took my muffins out of the oven, but they don’t look anything like yours. I followed all the ingredients and directions exactly.
And me!
Hi!
I am so sorry they didn’t turn out. I am not sure what went wrong. If you followed the directions, it may have something to do with elevation? Sorry I’m not more help!
love!
i just made these and they did not rise at all.. i dont see how they could look like the pic unless you put three servings in the muffin cup.. my husband like the taste they have a very strong dark chocolate taste so if you dont like dark chocolate you wont like them. i was really hoping these would be a good chocolate choice for me.
same here i was not very happy with they way they came out
I made these with the amount of stevia listed in the recipe and they were terrible. You do not need that much stevia at all. I’d say just make them to taste with the stevia.
These did not work for me either Seems any of these recipes where you have no flour do not work right.
I made these today and tried just a tiny part of one, and I enjoyed it! I will eat one of these tomorrow for my afternoon snack for sure!! Thanks 😀
how much do the ground oats turn to?
Ground the oats until smooth, no chunks.
Yup, I would do the dry ingredients first in then blend/process until fine like flour. This way, it wouldn’t be too overmixed with the wet stuff while trying to break up the oats. Perhaps that is why it did not rise at all for some of you? Just an idea.
I made half regular size (12) and the other half mini-muffins (24) and they all rose to the top and a little beyond with no problems. My picky niece and boyfriend actually liked it. She admitted it was different but still gobbled it up nonetheless.
Thank you soo much! So delicious.
Are they one or two points plus per muffin? I couldn’t find the nutritional value, but I know you said the calories were 58
Mentioned these in my blog! Made ’em, and fell in love, thank you so much!
I have made these two or three times per month for probably a year now, and this is one of my family’s favorites. I use milk instead of water and only 1/2 cup of splenda. I always mix up the oats in the food processor before I add the other ingredients, and I think this helps them to rise better. I have recently realized that it works super well to use almond flour instead of oat flour, and the almond flour makes them lower carb and taste even better!
I made these in a mini muffin tin using a mix of stevia and real sugar (to taste), left out the vinegar/cream of tarter and vanilla and used a healthy sprinkling of Enjoy Life chocolate chips (dairy free). I made the substitutions because I was working with what I had at the time. They rose perfectly and are super fluffy. They are a delicious treat!
I was skeptical because of how runny the batter was but they turned out pretty well! The are very rich but I like that sort of thing, especially with a tall glass of milk!
does anybody know how many grams of fiber this has
I made these and we all loved them, even my husband who claims he “doesn’t like chocolate muffins” has been eating them! Thank you for the recipe! I wound up freezing the extras that we didn’t eat immediately and I just microwave one for 30 seconds and its perfect! Making these again this week!
After a few less than desireable batches of these muffins I went about it slightly different. I knew that these ingredients all put together would be great… I just wanted them to look fabulous, also. I started to beat egg whites by themselves, first, before adding any of the other wet ingredients. Cream of tartar is in recipe for that reason… to keep egg whites fluffy. I then add in all other wet ingredients. I only fold in dry ingredients. Never mix any muffin batter any more than to just “wet”. Viola!! Perfect every time since! I get rave reviews on these muffins!
These are dashing Dish’s muffins
We adapted this from Health Is Always Better. We gave them credit on the post.
Mine didn’t rise the first time either. Thought it might have been the elevation, but nope! Turns out my baking soda was bad so I switched it out and the recipe worked like a charm.
Just made these today and I love them!! They are delicious and chocolatey, and I can’t believe they have so few calories, fat, and sugar!
These were soooo disgusting!! I was so disapointed when I tasted them, because they literally tasted like nothing!! Except for the chocolate chips, because chocolate chips are amazing. But seriously, don’t waste your time with these.
These came out perfect.
Delicious and moist.
I ground the oatmeal to a fine powder before adding in the rest. 1/4 C batter per muffin, 20 minutes.
Thank you!
All went well! So goooood! mine looks like the photo! ?
OMG, this is truly awesooooooome! I made this a few weeks ago and it turned out sooooooo well that I already baked this lots of times! It’s part of my weekly food plan too! Thank you so much for this low calorie and yet so delicious and amazing recipe!
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These are delicious! Made 18 total and used 1/2 cup turbinado sugar as didn’t have artificial sweetener. Yes the calories are more but I figure about 120 calls. Still a win!
The recipe says each muffin is 58 calories. How many fat grams are in each muffin? Can’t wait to try! Thanks!
Can these be made with Trivia instead of Splenda?
We haven’t tried it, but where it’s a similar substitution, it should work okay!