Chocolate muffins without added sugar

Like many of us during the Covid-19 lockdown, I turned to cook and baking.

I’m not a natural Cook.
In fact, I usually feel I don’t have time to do things in the kitchen and I’m known for walking away from the hob and leave things to burn.

However, these past few weeks, things have changed a bit. I have cooked and baked a lot more and the crazy thing is, I no longer hate the whole thing.

I’ve always admired my sister-in-law and mother-in-law in New-Zealand for their abilities to make muffins, scones, and other delicious things while we were sipping a cup of tea.
They made it so easy…

So now that I had a new-found love for cooking, I wanted to try a few recipes that Mila would love without them being a total sugar bomb.

These intense cocoa muffins without added sugar were perfect. I highly recommend eating these muffins warm with a bit of yogurt. If you don’t want to be tempted, just keep a couple out and freeze the rest for another day the kiwi way.

You will need:

110g of flour (371 calories)
a teaspoon of baking powder
2 eggs (140 calories)
50g cocoa powder (190 calories)
100g butter (700 calories)
1 yogurt like Activia (110 calories)
120g Medjool dattes pitted and cut into pieces (345 calories)
1 ripe banana (25 calories)
total calories= 1881 calories for the whole recipe

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Steps:

Preheat the oven at 180 degrees and butter your muffins tin
Mix everything in a robot
Pour the mixture into the muffins tin and cook in the oven for 20 minutes
Take them out and wait for 15 min to cool down before unmolding them

Calories per portion will depend on the size of your muffin tin. I usually manage to make about 9 muffins so that 1881/9 = 209 calories per muffin.

PS:
Unsweetened cocoa powder brings an intense touch of chocolate flavour without adding sugar or fat. Medjoul dates are a great option for natural sugar. They are tasty and a great source of minerals (magnesium, potassium, iron, copper, zinc, calcium, manganese) and have an alkaline action on the body. Let me know what you think if you make them.