Dark Chocolate Muffins with Acai Frosting

Dark Chocolate muffins with acai frosting are a delicious healthier muffin. Perfect for any occasion- these cacao muffins are sweetened with coconut sugar and have a simple and light acai berry frosting.

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This blog post is sponsored by BareOrganics.

What is coconut sugar?

BareOrganic’s organic coconut palm sugar is made from the sweet sap of the budding flowers on the coconut palm tree. This delicious sweetener makes a great sugar substitute, as it is low on the glycemic index – meaning it won’t spike your blood sugar.

BareOrganics coconut palm sugar is pure and extremely flavorful and fragrant, and will appeal to lovers of maple syrup in particular.

I love baking with BareOrganic’s Coconut sugar. You can use it in place in all recipes instead of white sugar.

What is Acai Powder?

BareOrganic’s Superfruit antioxidant blend is made Acai, Maqui, Goji, Mangosteen, and Lucuma. It’s full of antioxidants that are known to help the body fight free radicals. This blend is naturally sweetened with coconut sugar and can easily be added into smoothies, water or baked goods.

How do you make Dark Chocolate Muffins with Acai Frosting?

These muffins are make with organic cacao and sweetened with a small amount of coconut sugar from BareOrganics giving these muffins a dark cacao and tart taste.

Ingredients needed to make the muffins:

Oat flour
Coconut flour
Coconut sugar
Baking powder
Salt
Apple sauce
Almond milk
Non-dairy yogurt
Vanilla extract
Dark Chocolate Chips

Ingredients needed to make the frosting:

1/2 cup vegan butter
2 cups powdered sugar
5 tsp Superfruit antioxidant blend

Dark Chocolate Muffins with Acai Frosting

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PREP TIME:

10 minutes

COOK TIME:

25 minutes

Author - Hannah

Ingredients

1 cup oat flour
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/3 cup coconut sugar
1/2 cup cacao
1/2 Tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup apple sauce
2/3 cup almond milk
1/3 cup non-dairy vanilla yogurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Frosting

1/2 cup vegan butter
2 cups powdered sugar
5 tsp superfruit antioxidant blend

SCALE:

YIELDS:

12 muffins

Directions

Preheat oven to 365F and prepare a muffin tin by spraying with non-stick spray or lining it with parchment paper.
In a medium bowl, combine oat flour, coconut flour, coconut sugar, cacao, baking powder, and salt.
Then, in a large bowl, combine apple sauce, almond milk, non-dairy yogurt, and vanilla extract.
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix with a spatula until well incorporated.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Using a cookie scoop, scoop batter and pour into prepared muffin tin. These will rise slightly during baking, so you want to fill them up to the top. Spread evenly.
Bake for 25 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before removing from the muffin tin. Allow to cool on a cooling rack for 15-20 minutes before frosting.

Frosting

In an electric mixer, combine butter, powdered sugar and superfruit powder and beat on high speed for 2-3 minutes.
The longer you beat the butter, the fluffier your frosting will be.
Add to muffins and enjoy!