Chocolate Beet Muffins
Description
Would you believe that chocolate and beets can work together to deliver a tasty muffin? Try this relatively simple recipe and you shall!
Ingredients
•
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
•
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
•
1/2 teaspoon salt
•
2/3 cup white sugar
•
6 tablespoons butter, softened
•
3/4 teaspoon lemon zest
•
2 eggs, at room temperature
•
1 ripe banana, mashed
•
1 cup finely chopped cooked beets
•
1 cup chocolate chips
Directions
1
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 12 muffin cups with paper liners.
2
Mix flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
3
Beat sugar, butter, and lemon zest together in a large bowl until smooth. Add eggs and banana to the sugar mixture; beat until smooth. Stir about 1/3 of the flour mixture into the sugar mixture to integrate fully into a batter; repeat with remaining flour mixture in two even additions. Fold beets and chocolate chips into the batter; spoon into the lined muffin cups.
4
Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 40 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.