Zucchini Muffins

This zucchini muffins recipe comes out ultra tall and fluffy! They’re easy to make with the best moist texture and sweet flavor.

It’s the time of year where everyone we know has an overabundant zucchini plant. So why not shred it and bake it up into some tasty treats? These zucchini muffins really are the best way to use this green veggie! These muffins are ultra tall, with the best fluffy texture and moist interior. Coarse grains of turbinado sugar add a tasty crunch to the top of the muffins! You can add chocolate chips if you like, to amp things up with a bit of pizzazz. Ready to get baking?

How to make zucchini muffins

These zucchini muffins are so easy to whip up! They use standard muffin ingredients like flour, sugar, eggs, and oil, adding butter to add a little more richness and make for a tender crumb. This recipe is be just sweet enough so you feel like it’s a muffin, but not so sweet that it’s like a cupcake! Here’s how to make these easy zucchini muffins:

• Whisk together the butter, oil, sugar, eggs, milk, vanilla, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt.
• Sprinkle in the dry flour and zucchini, mixing with a spatula until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips if using.
• Bake: Place in muffin cups and bake for about 25 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Allow to cool and enjoy!

Why is zucchini used in baking?

Zucchini is often used as a replacement for oil in baked goods. Why? It’s much lower calorie than oil and performs a similar function: bringing in moisture. Most of zucchini is water, so it disappears right into cakes and breads, leaving the baked good perfectly hydrated.

Because using shredded zucchini can stand in for some oil, these zucchini muffins have a low oil content: just over 1 teaspoon of oil per muffin. Thanks, zucchini!

Want another baked recipe with zucchini? Try this Chocolate Zucchini Cake: rich, moist and ultra chocolaty.

Diet options: gluten free and vegan zucchini muffins

Looking for gluten free or vegan zucchini muffins? We’ve got options for both! Here’s what to do:

• Gluten free zucchini muffins: Use our Healthy Zucchini Muffins: you’ll whiz up the ingredients in a blender. There’s no flour: just rolled oats! They come out beautifully fluffy.
• Vegan zucchini muffins: Use Vegan Zucchini Bread and bake it in muffin cups, using the timing below.

What is turbinado sugar?

This zucchini muffin recipe is sweetened just enough, and not so much that it tastes like a cupcake! In this recipe we’ve used turbinado sugar for topping because of its caramel-y flavor and crunchy texture.

Turbinado sugar is raw sugar with large, light brown crystals. It’s less processed than refined white sugar, because it’s boiled only once to remove the molasses. Because of that, it has a little more complexity in flavor than refined sugar. It’s great for adding a crunchy topping to muffins and quick breads.

How to store zucchini muffins

What’s the best way to store these zucchini muffins? It depends on how long you think they’ll be around. Here’s what we recommend:

• 1 day: Leave the muffins on a cooling rack and cover with a clean, dry dish towel. This helps the texture of the topping intact.
• Up to 4 days: Place a paper towel in the bottom of a sealed container, then place the muffins in and place a paper towel on top. The paper towels absorb any moisture, which helps to retain the topping texture.
• Longer than 4 days: Freeze these muffins in a sealable container and store up to 3 months.

More zucchini recipes

Got an overabundance of zucchini? Get ready! Here are some of our favorite zucchini recipes using that popular green veggie:

• Try Easy Zucchini Boats with an Italian-style filling of tomato sauce and cheese.
• Go for Perfect Sauteed Zucchini: just 10 minutes in a hot pan makes this green vegetable truly irresistible
• This Zucchini Lasagna is truly the best! Roasted zucchini noodles and three cheeses make just the right Italian flavor.
• Go for other baked goods: Zucchini Bread, Lemon Zucchini Bread, rich Chocolate Zucchini Bread or Chocolate Zucchini Muffins, Zucchini Brownies, Banana Zucchini Bread, or Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

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Stuffed Zucchini Boats

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Perfect Sauteed Zucchini

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Perfect Zucchini Lasagna

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Easy Zucchini Bread

This zucchini muffins recipe is…

Vegetarian.

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