Butter-Free Cocoa Muffins with Coconut Milk: Soft and Light!
After the holiday break, let’s fire up the ovens for our column “Il Granaio”! To kick off the new year and say goodbye to the holidays, I prepared some butter-free cocoa muffins with coconut milk that will literally melt in your mouth.
These pastries, typical of American tradition, are presented here in a light but incredibly tasty version.
Today’s recipe is absolutely among the best yogurt muffin recipes I’ve ever tried for taste and texture!
The batter is made from yogurt, coconut milk, and cocoa, a dark chocolate heart, and a delicious pistachio topping! A real treat for the palate, even though they are butter-free and use only one egg!
Quick Preparation: Only 20 Minutes!
Moreover, making these light muffins is very easy. No electric whisks needed: just separate the liquid ingredients from the solid ones and mix everything together with a simple spoon.
Pour the batter into the appropriate molds with the liners and bake for just over twenty minutes. Done!
These coconut and chocolate muffins will be perfect for breakfast, as a snack, or to enrich your party buffet! Try them! You’ll impress your guests, who will immediately ask you for the recipe. I’ve made them even more delicious with themed decorations, gingerbread sugar sprinkles, and plenty of dark chocolate shavings cut with a knife, adding an extra touch of crunchiness you won’t be able to resist!
More sweet Christmas ideas:
- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Medium
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 11
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: American
- Seasonality: Autumn, Winter, Christmas
Ingredients
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- 1 2/3 cups type 1 flour
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut milk (in can not brick)
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup Greek yogurt
- 4 tbsp peanut oil
- 3 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch salt
- 11 pieces of dark chocolate
- to taste pistachio topping
- 1 oz dark chocolate
Tools
- 2 Mixing Bowls
- 1 Sieve
- 1 Wooden Spoon
- 1 Hand Whisk
- 1 Spatula
- 1 Muffin Pan
- 12 Cupcake Liners
- 1 Cooling Rack
Steps
Start by placing the chocolate pieces in the freezer for 20′. In the meantime, in a large bowl mix all the dry ingredients starting with the sifted flour and sugar (fig. 1).
Stir with a wooden spoon and also add a pinch of salt (fig. 2).
Then also add the sifted cocoa and baking powder (fig. 3).
In a second bowl, combine all the liquid ingredients starting with the egg and coconut milk (fig. 4).
Beat with a hand whisk until you get a smooth and homogeneous batter (fig. 5).
Then incorporate the oil and continue working with the whisk (fig. 6).
Finally, also add the Greek yogurt, gently blending with a spatula (fig. 7).
Then add the liquid ingredients to the dry bowl and quickly mix with a spatula (fig. 8).
Using a small ladle, distribute the batter into the muffin pans previously buttered and floured or lined with the appropriate liners (fig. 9).
Remove the chocolate pieces from the freezer and immerse them, one for each muffin (fig. 10).
Gently push the pieces with a wooden stick, without sinking them too much, then bake in a preheated static oven at 350°F for 20-25′ (fig. 11).
Turn off, unmold and let cool on a cooling rack (fig. 12).
Once cool, transfer them to a serving tray and garnish with pistachio topping to taste (fig. 13).
Finally, add chocolate shavings previously cut with a knife. I also decorated with optional gingerbread sugar sprinkles.

And voilà… the soft yogurt, dark chocolate, and pistachio muffins are ready to be enjoyed!

Bon Appétit from La Cucina di FeFè!
Storage
👉You can store the muffins at room temperature in a glass dome for up to 2-3 days.
THE COLUMN
Il Granaio–Baking time, is the column that every first and third Thursday of the month offers a basket full of incredible and irresistible ideas, many recipes that you can see by visiting the official pages of Facebook and Instagram
Il Granaio–Baking time, is the column that every first and third Thursday of the month offers a basket full of incredible and irresistible ideas, many recipes that you can see by visiting the official pages of Facebook and Instagram
And if you are as passionate about cooking as we are, we invite you to put on your apron and replicate our suggestions! If you do, don’t hesitate to write us, please! Here’s how we inaugurated the new year 2022, and Happy Epiphany to everyone!
And if you are as passionate about cooking as we are, we invite you to put on your apron and replicate our suggestions! If you do, don’t hesitate to write us, please! Here’s how we inaugurated the new year 2022, and Happy Epiphany to everyone!
Sabrina: Epiphany Focaccia
Simona: Apple Orange Cake with Cocoa and Licorice
Zeudi: Chocolate and Pear Cake with Cardamom

