Get your banana chocolate fix with these Healthy Chocolate Banana Walnut Muffins. They’re made with 100% whole grains, all natural sweeteners, and crunchy walnuts!
Healthy Chocolate Muffins with Walnuts
Super pumped for today’s recipe. Why? Well, banana + chocolate = love…especially when you top it with nut butter! These muffins are SO TASTY and SO FLUFFY. There is nothing worse than a dry muffin, do you feel me? Baking the perfectly moist muffin is a challenge for anyone! If you tend to produce dry muffins here are few tips and tricks to making sure your muffins moist!
- Add that fat! Don’t skimp on the coconut oil in this recipe, it helps keep the muffins moist!
- Remove muffins from the muffin tin immediately after baking to prevent the muffins from cooking in the pan after you take them out!
- If you did over bake the muffins, try topping them with nut butter to add moisture!
- Let the muffins cool completely and store them in an airtight container to keep them fresher, longer!
We’ve made them a few times already and man, they never get old! Here’s what you need for these chocolate banana walnut muffins!
Chocolate Banana Muffins Ingredients
- white whole wheat flour
- cocoa powder
- coconut sugar
- walnuts
- eggs
- bananas
- cup maple syrup
- almond milk, unsweetened
- cup coconut oil
Sounds like a lot of ingredients, but I bet you have most of these on hand anyway. Either way, get your booty to the store because these chocolate banana walnut muffins truly are the fluffiest muffs you’ll ever make.
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I have a revelation. NONSTICK MUFFIN TINS ARE THE SHIT. Team Fit Foodie finally upgraded our old muffin tin to a beautiful nonstick one. It’s nothing special and you can get it from Target for $8.99. Best $9 you will ever spend, I promise, because there is nothing worse than making a batch of muffins and having them stick to your pan. Speaking of sticking to your pan. I prefer my muffins without a muffin liner, but you have the option to do either.
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The Fluffiest Healthy Chocolate Muffins with Walnuts
Ingredients
Dry
- 1.5 cups white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup coconut sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup walnuts
Wet
- 2 large eggs
- 3 large bananas (1.5 heaping cups mashed)
- 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 3/4 cup unsweetened, plain almond milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup coconut oil melted
Instructions
- First, preheat oven to 350ºF and spray a nonstick muffin tin with nonstick cooking spray. Alternatively, line with muffin liners.
- In a large bowl, mash 3 large bananas. Then, add all wet ingredients minus the coconut oil. Whisk until combined.
- In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients together (except for walnuts).
- Slowly add dry ingredients to wet and mix.
- Finally, add walnuts and melted coconut oil, and mix well.
- Spoon batter into muffin til, filling 3/4 of the way full. Option to sprinkle on additional walnuts to the top.
- Bake at 350ºF for 19-22 minutes.
- Remove from oven once fully cooked and let cool for 5 minutes, and remove from pan to finish cooling.
- Enjoy!
Thanks Lee for sharing this great recipe! I used regular wholemeal flour, sub with granulated brown sugar, omitted maple syrup, and the muffins taste wonderful. Always happy to see easy, healthier and yummy recipes like this 🙂
So glad your substitutions worked!
Can I sub almond flour? What will be the ratio?
I’m just about to put them in the oven – are they okay to freeze?
Yes ma’am!
Can you sub the banana with something like apple sauce? Can’t do bananas 🙁
Yes that works!
So easy and so yummy! I’ll be making these again!
Is there another oil I can use instead of the coconut oil?
In addition to subbing out coconut sugar with brown and using regular flour?
Aah! My first bake ever, and it was a success! So easy to follow yet so fluffy!! I used gluten free flour 🙂 Thank you, Lee and Fit Foodie Finds!
Might be great in a loaf pan, too.
Yes! Would be amazing <3
Can you sup flax eggs?
Hi Anne! I haven’t actually tried these with a flax egg yet!
These turned out pretty great for forgetting the baking soda. Oops! It’s amazing the difference just a tiny quarter teaspoon can make, A reminder to not bake too early in the morning. Luckily because of their chocolately richness they aren’t bad being more on the dense side, more like a brownie. So if anyone else forgets their baking soda now you know they’re still totally edible:) I also added chocolate protein powder and chocolate chips, and used half honey and half maple syrup (due to lack of syrup). And with all that they’re really yummy, can’t even taste the protien powder. I’m sure with the baking soda they’d be even better. Next time!
Can you use regular whole wheat flour?
Yes, that should work!
Could you use almond flour with this or a gluten free?
I definitely wouldn’t use almond flour! If anything gluten-free flour blend!
Just tried them with the bobs red mill 1 to 1 baking flour and they came out great!
What can you use if you can’t get coconut sugar?
You could sub brown sugar!
Very good write-up. I certainly love this website. Thanks!