These healthy chocolate beet muffins are made with cooked beets, almond butter and eggs and sweetened with coconut sugar. This beet muffin recipe is perfect for breakfast or packing in lunches. They're gluten free, dairy free and paleo friendly.
If you're not sure how beets would taste in a muffin, then you MUST try these chocolate beet muffins.
They're fudgy and rich, with a moist crumb texture and you cannot taste the beets. Honestly, they're like mini chocolate cakes, but without all the excess sugar and with some nutritional value thanks to the beets.
And yes, these beet muffins are kid friendly! All three of my children love these muffins in terms of taste and texture.
Why You'll Love these Healthy Chocolate Beet Muffins
- Paleo friendly - made with real, whole food ingredients
- Flourless - gluten free and grain free
- No refined sugar - sweetened with coconut sugar (or granulated monk fruit sweetener for low carb)
- dairy free - no milk, no butter
Ingredients
Here's a list of what you'll need to make these paleo beet muffins:
- cooked beets - You can purchase pre-cooked beets for this recipe, or cook your own. To cook your own, wash the beets, cut them into bite-sized pieces and then steam them in a steamer pot until tender. You'll want to let the beets cool to room temperature before making the muffins.
- almond butter - My goal was to make these flourless chocolate beet muffins, so they contain almond butter. Any other nut or seed butter should work, but almond butter has a very neutral flavor, so I recommend that for best results.
- eggs - to bind the ingredients. Since these muffins are flourless, using an egg replacement will not work well.
- avocado oil - or any neutral flavored oil
- vanilla extract - for flavor
- cacao powder - you can swap this with cocoa powder if you prefer
- coconut sugar - to sweeten the muffins.
- baking powder - I make my own paleo baking powder, but any type will do.
- baking soda - for extra fluff
- salt - enhances the flavors
- dark chocolate chips - optional mix in
How to Make Paleo Chocolate Beet Muffins
You'll need a food processor or high powered blender to make these chocolate beet muffins. Here are the steps:
- First, preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin tin with paper or silicone muffins liners. Please note, silicone liners work better for this recipe. Paper liners stick a little to the muffins until they have been chilled in the fridge.
- Add the wet muffin ingredients to your food processor and blend until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients and blend.
- Add the chocolate chips and pulse them into the batter.
- Scoop the batter into your lined muffin tin, filling each slot about ¾ full.
- Place the muffins in your preheated oven and bake at 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes.
- After baking, cool the muffins for a few minutes in the pan, then transfer them to a wire cooling rack.
Storage
These flourless chocolate beet muffins are best stored in an air-tight container in the fridge, for up to one week.
More Paleo Beet Recipes
Looking for more paleo recipes using beets? Check these out:
Healthy Chocolate Beet Muffins (Paleo, Gluten Free)
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 10 muffins 1x
Description
These healthy chocolate beet muffins are made with cooked beets and sweetened with coconut sugar. They are flourless, gluten free, dairy free and paleo friendly.
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked beets (170g)*
- ½ cup almond butter
- 2 large eggs
- 2 Tbsp avocado oil
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup cacao powder (40g)
- ¼ cup coconut sugar (40g)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- ⅓ cup dark chocolate chips (optional)
Instructions
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Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and line a muffin pan with paper or silicone muffins liners**
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Add the wet muffin ingredients to a food processor or high powered blender. This includes the beets, almond butter, eggs, avocado oil and vanilla. Blend until smooth.
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Add in the dry ingredients. This includes the cacao powder, coconut sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Blend until well combined.
- Add in the chocolate chips and pulse the batter a few times to combine.
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Scoop the batter into your lined muffin pan, filling each slot about ¾ full. You should get about 10 muffins.
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Place the muffins in your preheated oven and bake at 350 degrees for 20-22 minutes.
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After baking, cool the muffins for a few minutes in the pan, then transfer them to a wire cooling rack
Notes
*You can use pre-cooked beets, or steam your own for this recipe. To steam your own beets, rinse the beets, cut off the stems and then cut the beets into bite-sized pieces. Place the beets in a steamer pot and steam until tender. Let the beets cool to room temperature before using.
**Please note, silicone liners work better for this recipe. Paper liners stick a little to the muffins until they have been chilled in the fridge.
Katie
My family and I love these beet muffins! Enjoy!
Danielle
These muffins don’t last long around my house. They are so delicious my three year old requested them for her birthday dessert! I’ve made them a few times; one time I slightly over baked and they turned out very dry so just keep a close eye on them.
Katie
Love that she asked to have them as her birthday dessert - so cute!
Morgan R
These were great! Used 137 g beets and it still worked. Didn't stick to the paper liners either, yay! I used monk sugar.
Katie
So glad they turned out for you 🙂
Susan
I make these a lot! They always turn out great - texture, flavor, richness. Thank you much. 🙂
Katie
I'm so glad you enjoy them 🙂
Drewzilla
Delicious! These were tasty enough that my kids still ate them even after I told them there were beets in them! I loved the smooth, light texture (so many healthy things I make end up gritty—these are not gritty at all!). Thanks for the recipe.
Katie
Oh wonderful! I'm so glad you all enjoyed them - kids can be hard to please but my kiddos love these too 🙂
Jerilea
These turned out great. I ended up with 12 muffins. Used home canned beets. Thank you for this recipe!
Katie
So glad you liked them! Thank you for leaving a review 🙂