Easy Chocolate 3 Ingredient Cake Mix Muffins
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Chocolate cravings are always there, but these easy 3 Ingredient Chocolate cake mix muffins are the perfect way to satisfy them without the guilt! Just use cake mix, Greek yogurt, and water, they’re a delicious, lighter treat that fits into a balanced lifestyle. These muffins make it easy to enjoy a chocolatey snack while staying on track with your goals.
If you love hosting friends or family brunches or breakfasts, these are perfect! While most muffins are always a favorite, they’re not usually the best choice for a healthy option! These muffins are the perfect lighter option to satisfy a sweet tooth and chocolate cravings without completely losing track of your goal!
A Note From Jenny
When starting any healthy lifestyle, consult a doctor to address any personal health concerns. Some things can only be addressed medically and by a professional. Blood sugar levels, blood pressure, and hormones checked at a physical before starting and at least once a year, as these all can affect an active lifestyle.
With so many different programs, such as Weight Watchers, Keto, and macros, it can be hard to know what to pick. (If you’re interested in Weight Watchers, you can sign up -> here and sign up for $10/month for 10 months.)
I personally use the app Myfitnesspal to track my food. I use macros and focus on High Protein (calories, fat, protein, and carbohydrates) and rotate through cuts and maintenance calories. (Use a calculator like this -> here) . I did WW for years, but now that I am more maintenance, with cuts throughout the year, and focusing on mobility with strength training. There is no right or wrong answer, as all bodies are different.
Easy 3 Ingredient Chocolate Chocolate Cake Mix Muffins Ingredients:
Important note: The ingredients listed on the cake mix are not needed for this recipe, just the cake mix powder in the box. Ignore the water amount, eggs, and oil on the box.
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How To make Chocolate Muffins from cake mix
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
In a bowl, whisk together the yogurt and water. Make sure these are well combined before mixing in the cake mix.
Mix in the dry cake mix. The other ingredients on the box are not needed.
Take a paper towel and get it wet with vegetable oil.
Rub down the Muffin Pan with the greased paper towel, if you are using silicone so your muffins will easily pop out of the pan. If using a metal pan, grease it down or use muffin liners.
I always use a cookie scoop to fill the baking cups half full, which grow fairly large.
Bake for about 15-22 minutes, depending on your oven. Use a toothpick to check the doneness of the muffins. The toothpick will come out clean when the muffins are done.
Serve and enjoy!!
Weight Watchers Chocolate Muffins Points Breakdown
This batch made 40 mini muffins, which equals 1 Weight Watcher per muffin. Now, be sure to replug your brand of ingredients and the number of muffins you baked; the brands and amount made will affect the point value per muffin.
Macros For Chocolate Cake Mix Muffins
Now, scan in your ingredients and track them based on the brands you use. This recipe’s macros are 39 calories, 8 carbs, 0 fat, and 1 gram of protein.
I calculated this information using a third-party tool and are meant to be a helpful reference only. Actual values will vary based on the specific ingredients, brands, and portion sizes you use.
How To Store Mini Chocolate Muffins
Store in an airtight bag on the counter for up to five days. You can also freeze these in an airtight container for up to 90 days.
Storing leftovers properly requires the right tools! My preferred storage method is if the leftovers can be sealed in a food saver. If not, then an air-tight container or Ziploc bag for the fridge is the way I go. The airtight container or a freezer Ziploc bag are the next best bet for freezing the leftovers. I also use a food scale to measure portions into serving sizes.
Have you made 3 ingredient cake muffins before? What are your favorite flavors to make?
How To Lower Calories In Cake Mix And Yogurt Muffins
Swap out the regular cake mix for a low sugar or no sugar cake mix powder. This may affect the taste of the muffins.
You can use nonfat yogurt instead of vanilla yogurt. You can add some vanilla extract to sweeten the muffins to compensate for the loss of vanilla in the Greek yogurt.
Muffin Recipes To Try
Between three-ingredient muffins and Kodiak muffins, there are delicious and low-calorie options to try!! Check out my -> Muffin Recipes collection!
3 Ingredient Muffins Made With Yogurt
Muffins Made With Kodiak Mix
- Sprinkle Kodiak Cake Muffins
- Cranberry Kodiak Muffins
- Kodiak Pumpkin Mufffins
- Chocolate Kodiak Muffins
Chocolate Weight Watchers Muffins
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Ingredients
- 13.25 Ounce Chocolate Cake Mix
- 1/4 Cup Vanilla Greek Yogurt
- 1 Cup Water
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- In a bowl whisk together your yogurt and water.
- Mix in the dry cake mix, you will not use any other ingredients on the cake mix box.
- Take a paper towel and get it wet with vegetable oil, if using a silicone pan.
- Rub down the Muffin Pan with the greased paper towel so your muffins will easily pop out of the pan.
- Or if using a muffin pan line them with muffin liners.
- Fill baking cups half full with batter.
- Bake for about 15-22 minutes depending on your oven, use a toothpick to check the doneness of the muffin.
- Serve and enjoy!!
How many points are the muffins?
My batch and ingredients worked out to two smartpoints per muffin.
Do you think you could add fruit?
How many calories in one?
How many calories please?
1700 for the cake mix
30 for the greek yogurt
2000/14 muffins is 143 per muffin
Hope this helps!
What size yogurt- individual size or large 32 oz size?
Individual size.
These are mini so you used the small cookie scooper?
Yes, I did! You can scoop them with a spatula as well but I have a cleaner pan if I use the scoop. n
How should these muffins be stored to keep freshness
I store mine in a Rubbermaid container or in a Ziploc bag. Let me know if you like the muffins!
I used a sugar free Chocolate cake mix, 1 cup of Oikos triple zero yogurt, one scoop chocolate protein drink mix and 1 C water. Made 60 minis for less than a point each. Some people have added additional sweetener like Stevia or Monk Fruit sweetener for a bit more sweetness. They are delish, either way.
Would a sugar free cake mix affect the points?
Yes it would lower the points. I have never bought one to know for sure how much it would lower them.
The sugar free cake mix will give you 16 muffins at 2 SP each. Those are large full size muffins and they taste amazing! I added 2 eggs to mine and they turn out looking better than any bakery ones!!
Could you tell me if the eggs were in addition to the recipe or a substitution for something else in the recipe? Thank you
The blog says do not add any ingredients that are on the box cake mix. 3 ingredients only…box cake mix..yogurt and water is all you need.
did you decrease the water? since adding 2 eggs…
No eggs!
how many carbs please???
The recipe says 7 carbs (0.2 g fiber) I am new to Weight Watchers Diabetic Points Plan (28 points per day…we count fruit). I am uneasy about using cake mix and definitely can not use sugar (I am a type 2 diabetic). Have any other diabetics tried this recipe? If so, did your blood glucose spike?
can I cook these in the microwave, like for a mug muffin?
I am sure you could, I have never tried it. A batch doesn’t last long here because of the kid and their friends.
I made a regular size muffin not mini. How many points is that? Don’t have a mini muffin pan
You would need to replug into the recipe builder with the number of muffins you baked to get the right point value.
When I plugged in these ingredients and made 12 full size muffins they are actually 6 points each. 😞
How do you figure points
Can you use plain Greek yogurt instead of the vanilla Greek yogurt.?
You can it will lower the points value too.
Can you add vanilla to it if it’s plain Greek yogurt?
You you can! I wouldn’t add to much maybe sweeten the yougurt to make sure it’s not to sweet and then add to the rest.
I made these today after making my husband’s high calorie banana muffins, I truly love them. They came out delicious, thank you so much for sharing such a wonderful and guilt free reciepe.
Are they two points regardless of the color plan you are on?
Yes as of now they are.
I made these with Pamelas gluten free cake mix, 1 cup of vegan soy yogurt, and 1 cup of water. They were outstanding! My husband said they were the best cupcakes I’ve ever made! Just wanted to let everyone know you can make these gluten free and dairy free 🙂 thank you for the great idea!
I used the exact recipe with some changes.
I added a couple table spoons of ground flax seed
1/3 of a cup of espresso chips and 1/3 of a cup of sugar free dark chocolate chips.
I made it in a Bundt pan.
Sprinkled lightly with powdered sugar prior to serving.
I put it in the recipe builder in the WW app and it came out to 5 pts for 1/10th of the cake. Super good!
I have not tried it yet. I was just stalking something chocolaty while doing WW. I’m on purple. Anyone else on purple? I haven’t yet tried to “plug in recipes.” I may have to give it a try to find out points.
I need to make an eggless cake for my 2yr old granddaughters birthday. These recipes look really good. Can you make a cake out of this recipe instead of muffins?
You probably can! Did you try it?
look up Waky cake….its simple and no eggs. these muffins are very good
I added SF syrup and Lily’s chocochips
I made these today with plain fat free Greek yogurt and added some chocolate chips to the batter. They are delicious!
These were a huge hit with my family! Thank you!
This is really good. I put the batter in a cake pop cooker. They were so good!!
How much yogurt and water do you use for this recipe?
I made these muffins today. I ate one. They are really good. Will be making these again.
HS anyone tried us g pureed low fat cottage cheese in place of greek yogurt?
I made these just as she said to but I added 3 small packets of stevia. They turned out so good nice and moist.
So good and easy! They were super moist too! I used Aldi’s chocolate cake mix. Thank you so much for the recipe!
I only had fat free vanilla Greek yogurt so I used that and I dusted the baked muffins with Swerve confectioners sweetener. They are delicious!
Can you freeze for later?
I was pleasantly surprised at how these turned out. I used Pillsbury Zero Sugar chocolate cake mix. I followed the recipe except I added 2 eggs, vanilla and some sugar free chocolate syrup. I mixed all the ingredients together before I added them to the dry cake mix. I mixed the batter by hand until it was thoroughly incorporated and then I used my electric mixer on medium for 2 minutes. I feel that this step helped with the heaviness others have mentioned. I baked them for 17 minutes. I got 18 regular sized muffins valued at 3 WW pts. Next time I’ll add some pecan chips or Lily’s chocolate chips. Thank you Jenny for a very easy recipe.
Delicious muffins and so easy to make thank you
absolutely amazing I put one egg in it and top them with seven chocolate chips each making it 115 calories per muffin they’re amazing love the taste quick and easy wish I could add my photo
Can I use plain yogurt instead of Greek? I don’t like Greek yogurt.
Yes you can! It will change the nutrition infomration.