Healthy Banana Muffins
Published 2/2/2020
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Healthy banana muffins that will make your tastebuds dance! This banana muffin recipe is made with whole wheat flour, mashed banana, and a little bit of maple syrup. If there is one muffin recipe that you make over and over again, it needs to be this one! Seriously, these healthy banana muffins are so yummy, perfectly sweetened, and only require 9 ingredients.
Why Make These Muffins?
Whole Ingredients: these delicious fluffy muffins are made with 9 total Ingredients. They’re lightened up with white whole wheat flour, maple syrup, and use only 2 tablespoons of oil. Kid-Friendly: The kids are going to absolutely gobble these muffins up! They make for a great healthy breakfast idea or even mid-day snack. Freezer-Friendly: One of the best things about these muffins is that they freeze well. So, if you need to stock up on a healthy snack/breakfast, these need to be your go-to!How to Make Healthy Banana Muffins
Every good banana muffin recipe begins with ripe bananas and that’s just the truth! Bananas with a few brown spots are them are so much sweeter than green bananas and are perfect for banana muffins or banana bread, for that matter. In addition to 2 medium ripe bananas, you need 8 more common ingredients for one batch of muffins.Ingredients
- All-Purpose Flour
- While White Wheat Flour
- Brown Sugar
- Baking Soda
- Bananas
- Eggs
- Maple Syrup
- Almond Milk
- Coconut Oil
Easy Variations
We have dozens of healthy muffin recipes on Fit Foodie Finds and guess what? They’re all pretty much variations of this very recipe. Chocolate Chips: Add 1/2 cup of your favorite chocolate chips to this recipe for a sweeter, more dessert-like muffin! Or follow this Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe. Banana Blueberry: Add a pint of fresh (or frozen!) blueberries to the batter before baking. Banana Nut: Easily give these banana muffins a crunch with 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts or pecans. Carrot Cake: Fancy things up a bit with 1/2 cup of shredded carrot and 1/3 cup of chopped walnuts to give these a carrot cake twist!Can you freeze banana muffins?
Banana muffins are the perfect healthy snack to freeze. Let them cool completely and then place them on a baking sheet. Freeze for 2 hours before transferring into a freezer-safe, gallon-size bag. Remove as much air as possible and then seal. Freeze for up to 3 months.How do you make these even healthier?
There are a few more swaps you can make to make these muffins even healthier! Flour: This recipe calls for half all-purpose flour, but you can easily sub that 1:1 for more white whole wheat flour. The batter might get a little thick, so feel free to up the almond milk a little bit. It should be a little thinner than pancake batter. Oil: While this recipe calls for only 2 tablespoons of coconut oil, you can likely just omit altogether. Sugar: Try using coconut sugar 1:1 instead of brown sugar for a refined sugar-free option.Can you make these vegan?
Since these muffins contain eggs, they are not considered vegan. We suggest following our Vegan Banana Bread recipe and making muffins with the batter instead of a loaf.Try our banana bread recipes!
Easy Banana Muffin Recipe
Ingredients
Dry
- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed (or coconut sugar)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Wet
- 1 cup mashed banana, ~2 medium ripe bananas
- 2 large eggs
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup unsweetened, plain almond milk
- 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
Instructions
- First, preheat oven to 350ºF and line a muffin tin with muffin liners or spray with nonstick cooking spray.
- Next, mash around 2 medium bananas (1 cup mashed) in a large bowl. Then, add in eggs, maple syrup, and almond milk and whisk.
- Add all of the dry ingredients and mix again.
- Finally, add melted coconut oil and mix one last time.
- Evenly spoon batter between 12 muffins in your tin, filling them about 2/3 of the way full.
- Bake at 350ºF for 16-18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Let cool for at least 10 minutes before removing from muffin tin to continue cooling on a cooling rack.
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Nutrition
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Deliciousness, my best so far….I dont have coconut oil, I replaced it veg. Oil…so easy and so good….
Looks great! I’m trying to get more protein in, how would adding a scoop or two of protein powder affect the recipe? Any other real food suggestions?
Hey Michelle! We haven’t tried this, but you could try 1/4 cup of protein powder and remove 1/4 cup of flour!
Could not love this recipe more 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Delicious!! I’ve made it two times over quarantine. Great way to start the day!
A great quarantine recipe fo shoooo!
I had to use all purpose flour and honey instead of maple syrup because that’s what I had at home, but they came out great!
Delicious and SO easy! I didn’t have any coconut oil nor whole wheat flour on hand so I swapped for both olive oil and all-purpose flour, respectively, 1:1. Super easy swap and it was still delicious! I also added some chocolate chips as recommended above, because you can never go wrong with chocolate and bananas 🙂
Glad it still worked!
I substituted 1.5 cups almond flour for both kinds of flour since it’s what I had on hand. I also used coconut sugar. The middle of the muffin sank down after baking, so I may need to play with the ratios.
The flavor was delicious and the muffin was very moist. Tasted like an old family recipe but much healthier. Yum!
Hi! Almond flour is super tough. Check out our almond flour blueberry muffins for a base recipe — https://fitfoodiefinds.com/almond-flour-blueberry-muffins/
Thank you! I made the almond flour blueberry ones you linked and they turned out so good!!
YAY! Glad you loved them!
Made these but substituted 1/2 cup of pecan flour for 1/2 cup of the whole wheat flour to reduce carbs & coconut sugar instead of regular sugar. Added a little vanilla extract and mini chocolate chips. Baked for 20 min. They are really good! Will make again!
Made these last night and everyone loves them! Can’t wait to bring them to work! I’m gonna add cherries to them next time too! Thanks for the recipe!
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I made these tonight and the recipe is perfect! They are firm but moist and fluffy. I will definitely keep this as my go-to banana muffin recipe!
So good, right?! LOVE.
Could you substitute coconut milk for the almond milk?
I don’t see why not! I would use cartoned coconut milk, though!