I'm always looking for ways to take the edge off a chocolate fix with minimal calories. I'm also always looking for ways to use what I have lying around my kitchen. I'm getting pretty good at substituting ingredients and faking recipes. I'll admit, sometimes I make stuff I wouldn't feed my worst enemy, but a lot of the time it turns out great.
I was looking for a recipe that I could use greek yogurt, peanut butter, and chocolate to make a muffin with decreased calorie content. The recipe I found looked pretty good but I changed some ingredients and used some things I had lying around to make a decent muffin. It's not super sweet, but it's also a muffin and not a cupcake. So there.
The recipe is
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup cocoa
2 tbsp oat flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 tbsp brown sugar
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1 egg
2 tbsp honey
1/2 cup peanut butter
I combined the dry ingredients, but I had no idea what oat flour was. Apparently, you just take oatmeal and grind it up. This actually gives the muffins an oatmeal taste and is pretty good. Then in a separate bowl I combined the wet ingredients. I didn't have plain greek yogurt, so instead I used what I had. Caramel Macchiato greek yogurt! Yum! Mix the two bowls together and add chocolate chips!
I baked at 425 for 5 minutes, then changed to 350 for 13 more. This makes 9 muffins and I added water to the 3 empty muffin cups because this is suppose to help them bake more evenly.
Turned out great. Chocolatey, peanut buttery, with an oatmeal finish.

Looks yummy!
ReplyDeletesounds good Jess, think I might have to try it. Also keep the blogs coming. :-)
ReplyDeleteThey definitely taste like they are healthy, but also taste like peanut butter and chocolate. I'm going to have to make more!
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