Pumpkin Blueberry Cashew Chocolate Chip Muffins are a decadent, healthy fall treat! Bursting with sweet blueberries and chocolate, these creamy flourless treats are beyond delicious. Low Calorie + Paleo + Gluten Free
It's amazing how one day you wake up and your body feels like itself again. After months of feeling in the dumps since the accident, I finally had a turning point last week. It only took 3 months, 12 weeks, 84 days and 2,016 hours, but who's counting really? It was crazy!
I woke up, felt energized and didn't feel like I needed crutches anymore. I even started walking with one crutch. I can't explain it, but I just knew it was time to walk. Today I see the orthopedic for the official okay for full weight bearing and to review the MRI I had two weeks ago for weirdness.
The tricky part is not overdoing it. When I saw my regular doctor last week, she stressed to me how I needed to go very slow with everything. Well, I didn't tell her but I already learned that lesson. I was so excited about how good I was feeling I did too much and by 3pm I was in bed.
It's good I'm having nose surgery this week. It will keep me resting a few more days and force me to limit my activity. Otherwise, I would be trying to do everything. I have so much catching up to do. I'm so behind on everything in life. That's the phenomenon of being injured. You feel horrible forever and then out of no where you feel better. The good news is I am finally feeling a lot better!
In celebration of my turning point and everything pumpkin, I am sharing these creamy Pumpkin Blueberry Cashew Chocolate Muffins with you today. They're gluten free, paleo and simply delicious! They're also low on sugar and big on flavor. I made these for Sarah a few weeks ago when she came to visit.
I wasn't sure if her family would love them as much as her and I did, but to my surprised they loved them! Let's face it, everything we eat these days is loaded with a dump truck of sugar. That excess sugar has so many of us forgetting what real food tastes like.
Once you stop eating so much sugar, you realize how it distorts your taste buds and cravings. To me, I truly believe the perfect sugar high is tart blueberries and chocolate. I hope you love them as much as we did!
Pumpkin Blueberry Cashew Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup cashew butter
- 1 banana ripe, mashed
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup almond flour
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil
- 2 egg whites
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup blueberries *
- 1/8 cup mini chocolate chips dairy free
Instructions
- Preheat oven 375 F. Prepare a muffin tin with liners or by spraying with nonstick cooking spray.
- Add all ingredients to a food processor except blueberries and chocolate chips. Blend until smooth then gently fold blueberries and chocolate chips into batter by hand.
- Transfer the batter to the muffin cavities with a spoon, diving the batter among 14 cavities.
- Bake 25-30 minutes at 375 F or until a toothpick can be removed clean. Allow muffins to cool 15 minutes in tin before removing and enjoying.
- Keep muffins in the refrigerator up to 1 week or freeze up to a month.
Notes
- *To keep the blueberries from popping when the muffins are baking, use frozen blueberries. I freeze mine right in the pint.
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Made these this morning.....they are incredibly delicious! My kitchen smells amazing now Going to share them with a few of my friends. Thanks for an awesome recipe!
I'm so glad you liked them Kim! Thanks for letting me know too. Hope you have an awesome day!
hooray for feeling better and making another delicious recipe! YUM!
Thanks Nicole! I'll trade you a muffin for your pumpkin kale smoothie?
Congratulations on feeling so much better!!! These look absolutely fantastic, sooooo many of my favorite things in here. (Also would never have thought to do pumpkin and blueberry together, but I love them both so will totally try that.)
Hi Leslie! I'm glad you like them. Pumpkin, blueberry & chocolate are a winning combo. 🙂
I have been making different types of muffins each week and don't put any sugar or sugar fill in, in them. Everyone always love them and is never the wiser. I find having fruit in them naturally sweetens it enough.
Hi Gianna! Fruit is definitely my sweetener of choice too. I think there's more sugar in our foods than we know so it's always a good thing when we can limit it in our diets.
I'm glad you are feeling better and these would perk me up too! I am loving pumpkin desserts at the moment and these are being added to the list to try too. Yum!
Thank Dannii! Pumpkin muffins make everything better. 🙂
I'm ecstatic to hear you are feeling better!! WOOT WOOT!! I can't wait to hear about your comeback 🙂 And these muffins, what a great way to celebrate! I'm loving the blueberry and pumpkin combo - sounds delsih!
Thanks Sam! I will feel as if I succeeded if I can go 3 months without another injury.
YUM! These look incredible. Cashew butter is the only nut butter I've never tried and I think it's time I changed that! Pinning!
Hi Lauren! You definitely need to change that. Cashew butter makes everything very creamy & compliments many flavors.
Yum yum yum!! Loving all the of the pumpkin recipes lately. I am definitely on the super low end of the sugar spectrum. The only time I have it is when I eat something purchased/a restaurant desert...because I am a stevia lover to the max, I still get that sweet taste all the time.
You know. I've been really trying to be conscious of my sugar intake lately. It seems to sneak its way into a lot of things.
I am so glad to hear that you are feeling better! I love the pumpkin banana combo thanks for joining us today
Thanks Deborah!
Ooooooohhh love the combo!!! Lots of goodies in here, and I would never think to add cashews to muffins, but it worked!!
Never? You have to try sometime Tina!
these muffins are such a nice change from the typical pumpkin chocolate chip muffins! I love how you even added bluberries for a tasty touch! Pinned 🙂
Thanks Rachel! I try to make unique, yet familiar things for everyone.
Mee me me! Make them for me! I'm so glad that you are feeling better and like you are conquering your post-trauma rut. That is a major step in the right direction. Thinking about your this week! Don't forget to tag this with #pumpkinweek2015
I hope so! Surgery on Wednesday so hopefully the upward trend continues.
Yum these look perfect! I just remade my cashew butter blondies - so great for healthy baking.
I swear cashew is the best for baking. It makes everything so creamy!