I’m always looking for ways to use up excess zucchinis as when they’re in season in our garden, we pick multiple zucchinis a day!
These grain-free, dairy-free and refined-sugar free zucchini and cacao muffins are deliciously moist and guilt free too, not to mention perfect for school lunch boxes!
Ingredients
- ¾ cup coconut flour
- ½ cup cacao powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¾ tsp baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
- 6 eggs
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ cup maple syrup (or rice malt syrup if you prefer)
- ¼ cup coconut cream
- 1 ½ cups grated zucchini
Directions
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- In a large bowl beat eggs. Add coconut oil, maple syrup, vanilla and coconut cream.
- Sift in flour, cacao powder, cinnamon and baking soda.
- Mix to combine.
- Fold in grated zucchini.
- Place mixture in muffin cups within muffin trays (I use ‘If You Care’ large natural parchment cups).
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the tops spring back when lightly touched in the middle.
- Cool in pan for 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.
- Muffins freeze well.
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Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, a Masters of Science (in Environmental Chemistry) and spent 11 years working as an environmental professional before creating her first online eco business, Sustainababy, in 2009. She has won numerous regional and national awards for her fresh and inspiring take on living an ‘ecoceptional’ life (including most recently winning the Brand South Australia Flinders University Education Award (2015) for the north-west region in SA and silver in the Eco-friendly category of the 2015 Ausmumpreneur Awards). With a regular segment on ABC Radio and with her work featured in publications like Nurture Parenting and My Child Magazine, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo. A passionate believer in addressing the small things to achieve big change, and protecting the planet in practical ways, Laura lives with her husband and two sons in outback South Australia. 
