Looking for a healthy chocolate snack? Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites is packed with spinach, apple sauce, and melted chocolate chips. These treats are so tasty, no one will know that they’re eating fruits and vegetables.
When it comes to snack time, there is nothing like bite-sized treats. You can pack them with a lunch, grab them on the go, or eat them at home. And if you’re craving just a nibble of chocolate, Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites can let you indulge in your craving while enjoying a mouthful of spinach too.
Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites is adapted from my Spinach Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe. The most obvious difference between the two recipes is the size of the muffins. The original recipes make a full-sized muffin, while the new one makes a smaller bite-sized treat. Size aside, these mini muffins pack a sweeter, richer flavour, that’s thanks to one special ingredient – vanilla Greek yogurt.
Greek Yogurt is amazing! You can enjoy it on its own, eat it with fruit or granola, and when it’s added to a mini muffin recipe, it gives the whole batch a sweeter flavour and moister texture. It also adds a subtle pop of vanilla, which makes them even tastier. Smaller, sweeter and even more delicious – with Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites, there is even more to love!
Forget artificial colours, Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites are given their vibrant green colour from finely chopped spinach. The spinach is mixed right into the batter, giving them a beautiful colour without any salad flavour.
Kids (and adults alike) love the green colour of these muffins. You won’t need to worry about convincing anyone to eat their veggies, with Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites they will want to keep eating more and more of them.
Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites are a great way to squeeze extra vegetables into the day. And when the vegetable is spinach, it’s even more amazing. Spinach is a true superfood. It’s loaded with vitamins, nutrients, and even protein. When you mix it into these bite-sized treats, you have a seriously super snack.
There’s nothing like eating freshly baked treats right out of the oven. When they are warm and soft, you can almost swim in the aroma and flavour of every bite. As Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites cool, they still keep their soft, melt-worthy, freshly baked texture. And they stay that way for days.
The combination of apple sauce and yogurt keeps the bites deliciously moist for up to three days. You can enjoy the bites day after day after day – if they can even last that long.
With a chocolatey middle and spinach filled batter, these healthy and sweet bites are sure to impress. We keep making them again and again. Once you try them, you will be too.
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PrintHealthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites
Sneak vegetables into your family’s diet with these tasty Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites. Everyone will love the green colour and flavour. You’ll love how easy they are to make and how healthy they are.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 24 bites 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup packed spinach
- 1/3 cup apple sauce
- 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla fat free Greek yogurt
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 tablespoons egg whites
- 1/2 tablespoon vanilla
- 3/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C).
- Using a food processor, chop spinach until pieces are small and fine.
- In a large bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt.
- In another bowl combine spinach, apple sauce, yogurt, honey, egg whites, and vanilla.
- Pour flour mixture into the spinach one. Stir to combine. Fold in chocolate chips.
- Coat mini muffin tin with cooking spray. Spoon muffin batter into each tin.
- Bake muffins for 12 to 15 minutes, or until muffin tops are lightly browned.
- Let muffins cool for 5 minutes before removing from tin.
- Enjoy!
If you love bite-sized treats, you may also enjoy The Best Two Bite Brownies
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I’m going to have to make these and not tell the kids what is in them! Can’t wait to try them, thanks for sharing at #HomeMattersParty
Thanks Emily! Hope your kids enjoy Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites as much as mine do.
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Hi, do you have nutrition information? We are on a low-carb low-sugar diet. Thinking I can substitute the regular flour for almond flour, and the sugars for the non-sugar sweetener varieties. Thanks.
Hi Theresa! I haven’t tried Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites with almond flour or non-sugar sweetener. If you need nutritional information for the recipe, I recommend searching for “get nutritional information from a recipe.” You will find several websites that you can copy and paste the ingredients list into. Hope you enjoy making the bites!
Wow! This sounds interesting. I’ve never heard of choco chip muffin with spinach. Lovely share, will definitely give it a try. I just want to grab each one of your speciality muffins/cakebites. They sound super deicious & yum. I’m sure everyone as Fiesta Friday will love it. Hope you have a great weekend ahead & thank you for sharing the recipe with us at Fiesta Friday!?
Thanks! Hope you have a wonderful weekend too!!
YUM! I love that they are healthy and I adore the color! Can’t wait to try your other bites too. Pinned
Thanks! I agree, the green colour makes them even more fun.
Well now I am going to have to make these muffins with the spinach, but not tell the family until after they tell me how good they are. Found you on Blogger’s Pit Stop
Thanks Candy! Hope you and your family enjoy Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites.
Spinach and chocolate chips. I would never have thought to put the two together, but they look yummy! Thanks for sharing with SYC.
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Jann
Thanks Jann! Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites taste even better than they look.
I love this idea. Way to hide some good stuff in it! #bloggerclubUK
Thanks! It’s always great to hide the healthy stuff.
I’m always looking for ways to sneak veggies into my son’s diet. He’s so picky! These look so good!
Thanks! Hope you enjoy Healthy Spinach Chocolate Chip Bites.