Dark Secret Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins

There are a few things you'll quickly learn about me. 1) I am a food snob real foodie, 2) I hate recreating the wheal (aka I modify the recipes I find more to my liking), 3) GMOs are E-V-I-L, and 4) I think Americans eat too many carbohydrates.

I feel at my personal best when I follow a grain free/ low carbohydrate diet. For that reason, most of my recipes are prepared without wheat or processed sugars. That isn't the right approach for some of you. And that is okey dokey with me. Eat how you wish, as long as it honors your body. All I ask is that you read the labels on the food you buy. And then ask yourself this: “What in the health am I eating?!” If you can't pronounce it or if it was created in a laboratory, do not put it in your shopping cart. Period.

One of my favorite things to cook with is coconut. I loooove coconut. No seriously, I am in love with it. I love coconut milk, coconut oil, coconut flakes, shredded coconut, coconut cream ... but my absolute favorite is coconut flour. A single 2-tablespoon serving of coconut flour has 5 grams of fiber and only 8 grams of carbs. Coconut flour is da’ bomb.

Pumpkin doesn’t like coconut. I have to work very, very hard to sneak it into our dishes. In an effort to pull one over on him up the nutritional content, I played around with a recipe I’d seen floating about. I’m always trying to sneak in some extra vegetables so a few different varietals later and voila!, yummy muffins with a sweet little secret: roasted butternut squash.


Dark Secret Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins


1 cup roasted butternut squash, mashed and mixed until smooth
3 eggs (pastured people, pastured!)
3.5 tablespoons coconut flour
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup melted coconut oil (30 secs in microwave aught to do it)
1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 375 degrees.


Line muffin tin with liners (unbleached, please). Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix with a paddle attachment until well combined. Hand mix in almost all of the chocolate chips. Fill liners with batter about 2/3 of the way full. Top with remaining chocolate chips.


Bake for 15-18 minutes.


Love and light,
K