Almond Butter Banana Nut Muffins


Ingredients:

  • 3 ripe mashed bananas
  • ¼ cup almond butter or  your favorite nut/seed butter of choice
  • ½ cup turbinado sugar or 1/3 cup NuNaturals Stevia Baking Blend
  • 1 egg white
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 ½ cups oat flour (I pulsed 2 cups old fashioned oats in my food processor)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt (omit if using salted nut butter)
  • ½ cup dark chocolate chips
  • ½ cup chopped pecans

Directions:

Mix first 5 ingredients until creamy.  Stir together oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Slowly add dry ingredients to banana mixture stirring to combine.  Stir in chocolate chips and pecans.  Bake at 350 degrees 18 – 20 minutes in paper lined or greased muffin pan.

Yield: 15 muffins.

 

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Susie July 1, 2009 at 12:38 am

Hi Heather! I am ADDICTED to these muffins! I keep wanting my bananas to get too ripe so I can have an excuse to make a batch of these. YUM!!! Thank you for sharing this recipe :)

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Felicia July 24, 2009 at 5:33 pm

I just wanted to say that I made these today and they are absolutely AMAZING! They came out sooo so good and moist- they were better then I expected! Thank you so much for sharing!

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stephaniescarborough November 7, 2009 at 5:04 pm

Just baked these and WOW! Moist and amazing! I’m taking them to a party and really wishing I’d doubled the recipe!

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Heather Eats Almond Butter November 7, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Stephanie, Sounds like your muffins turned out really well. I need to make these again soon – thanks for the reminder. Hope everyone at the party enjoys them. :) Love, Heather

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Jennica November 14, 2009 at 11:25 pm

Thank you so much for posting this recipe! I made these tonight and they were absolutely delicious. I love that the recipe does not call for any flour. I can’t wait to make these again.

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Heather Eats Almond Butter November 15, 2009 at 8:34 am

Jennica, So glad you enjoyed them. :)

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stephanie December 3, 2009 at 9:14 pm

wait where is the stevia?

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Heather Eats Almond Butter December 3, 2009 at 9:16 pm

Stephanie, This is an older recipe, and I subbed 1/3 cup stevia baking blend for the 1/2 cup turbinado sugar in my latest version of these muffins.

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Triple N Stephie December 4, 2009 at 6:43 pm

omg..these look so good…I want to try but unfortunately, some of the ingredients are too expensive :( like almond butter, stevia…Gosh but those really look so good.

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Heather Eats Almond Butter December 4, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Triple N Stephie, Use peanut butter and regular sugar or peanut butter and applesauce. :)

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Michelle December 23, 2009 at 6:51 pm

These look delicious! I’m definitely going to make them sometime soon, I’ve never baked with Almond Butter before and with bananas and dark chocolate chips in the mix, who could go wrong!?

I just started my own blog, I’d be great if you checked it out sometime!
http://snacksandfield.wordpress.com/

Michelle

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Heather Eats Almond Butter December 23, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Michelle, You’re right. You cannot go wrong with those ingredients. Enjoy! :)

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Mai January 17, 2010 at 8:23 pm

OMG, made these today, left them to cool while I went for my 10 mile run, thoughts of these motivating me through my run, came home and shoved one in my face and just about died of happiness.

These are fantastic. Seriously my new favorite muffin. Did you make this recipe up? If so you are genius! If not where did you find it?

Thanks for posting.

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Heather Eats Almond Butter January 18, 2010 at 7:27 am

Mai, I believe I morphed several different muffin recipes I found online into one, and then subbed nut butter for the oil. Glad you enjoyed. :)

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Ana February 8, 2010 at 6:31 am

Heather, I made your muffins yesterday and they are amazingly good! Awesome recipe, love the use of almond butter on my muffins! Thanks!!!
Ana

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Heather Eats Almond Butter February 8, 2010 at 7:39 am

Ana, So glad you enjoyed. :)

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Cindy February 26, 2010 at 7:10 am

I just made these and OMG they are sooo good! I’m trying to stay away from chocolate so I used carob chips. I’ll definitely be making them again.

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Heather Eats Almond Butter February 26, 2010 at 8:10 am

Cindy, So glad you enjoyed!

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Mary Vaughan April 18, 2010 at 9:48 am

I just found out about this site but have foundit very interesting and I am looking for a way to lose weight desperately…….I am hoping this will work for me though I am disabled and exercise is limited I still hope it will work….I was wondering is there a diet list to follow and what is a serving size for these recipes and do you just eat one thing per meal…I have not figured it out yet but would like to before purchasing all the necessary ingredients as my money is limited…….Thanks for you help !!!

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Heather Eats Almond Butter April 18, 2010 at 10:27 am

Mary Vaughan, I recently wrote a post for new readers that you might find helpful: http://heathereatsalmondbutter.com/2010/04/03/welcome-new-readers/. I don’t recommend any certain diet or have any meal plans to offer you. What I do recommend is eating real whole foods while cutting out refined foods and sugar. I don’t include serving sizes or calorie counts for my recipes. They are not “diet” recipes by any means, but rather my own versions of of foods I like to eat. If you’re trying to lose weight, I would perhaps skip the muffins for a while. Focus on vegetables, meats, and some whole grains and never hesitate to email me with your questions. :)

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G May 6, 2010 at 1:21 pm

These look amazing and I can’t wait to bake some up this weekend! My only concern is the amount of carbs would it possible to only use only 1 or 2 banana’s and maybe add some banana extract? would I need to add additional liquid such as an extra egg or apple sauce?

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Heather Eats Almond Butter May 6, 2010 at 1:40 pm

G, I would try fewer bananas and go with the apple sauce. Not sure about the banana extract – maybe stick with vanilla and or almond. Perhaps add extra cinnamon as well. :) Please let me know how they turn out if you try them!

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G May 9, 2010 at 11:00 am

These are unbelievable! more like cake than a muffin!
I used 2.5 bananas, 1c oat flour and 1/2c protein powder
each one has Calories: 135.5, protein: 8, carbs: 15, fat:5

I can’t wait to try more of your recipes!

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Heather Eats Almond Butter May 9, 2010 at 2:38 pm

G, So glad you liked the muffins or cake I guess I should say. :)

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SoloSzabi May 30, 2010 at 12:11 pm

Wooowww…

I just baked this muffins. They didn’t last 5 minutes…all gone! :D
I think I found one of my new 24 hour race food!
I changed the recipe a bit, I used palatinosa instead sugar and I changed the oat flour to half-half oat bran and whole grain rye flour… (shame, can’t buy oat flour in the UK?!?!).
It is amazing… yummmmmiiii :)

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Heather Eats Almond Butter May 30, 2010 at 12:31 pm

SoloSzabi, So glad you liked the muffins! I always make my own oat flour – just pulse rolled oats in your blender or food processor. :)

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Elizabeth June 24, 2010 at 7:27 am

Do you think I could find a substitute for the egg white to make these vegan? Would Ener-G egg replacer work maybe? These look SO good and I really want to try them!

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Heather Eats Almond Butter June 24, 2010 at 7:32 am

Elizabeth, I’m not sure as I’ve never used Ener-G egg replacer, but I would either try that or 2 TBSP flax seed gelled in 2 TBSP water. Hope this helps, and please let me know if you try it. I’ll update the recipe with your vegan version adaption. :)

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Heather Eats Almond Butter June 24, 2010 at 7:34 am

Elizabeth, Oops, I meant 2 TBSP flax seeds gelled in 1/4 cup water.

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Alex July 13, 2010 at 2:22 pm

Genius.

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Heather Eats Almond Butter July 13, 2010 at 3:42 pm

Thanks Alex. :)

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Rachel July 13, 2010 at 8:55 pm

Hi Heather. I just baked these muffins (but 1/2 the recipe) and waiting for them to cool to try them :-) . Thanks for the post. I was wondering….Do you use a basic formula for how much baking powder and baking soda you use per amount of flour? I am trying to come up with my own recipes for muffins and don’t even know where to start! Thanks

Rachel

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Heather Eats Almond Butter July 14, 2010 at 6:29 am

Rachel, Hope you enjoyed the muffins! Oh gosh, honestly, I have no idea how I came up with the baking powder baking soda ratios for this recipe. I probably just googled a bunch of other basic muffin recipes to see how much they used, and the amounts I chose worked. Sorry, I know that’s not much help, but I would just look at a other recipes to see what they use. So exciting you’re creating your own muffins. Please share if you come up with some good ones! :) Sincerely, Heather

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gigi August 6, 2010 at 4:42 pm

these are life changing!

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Heather Eats Almond Butter August 7, 2010 at 7:36 am

Gigi, Hehe – so glad you though so. :)

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eatmovelove August 29, 2010 at 9:33 am

Hi HEAB, I was just looking for a good Banana Bread recipe…could these work as a Loaf/Bread too possibly. Or I might just do the muffins. Do they taste good? LOL – I’m bringing some to work and they have rather “typical” taste-buds ;) . And, no oil in the recipe? I guess the bananas make up the mushiness?

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HEAB August 29, 2010 at 10:51 am

Eatmovelove,
I’m sure this recipe would turn out great in loaf form, but I’m not too sure about the baking time.

I also think your coworkers would really enjoy them, and the nut butter makes up for the missing fat from the oil.

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eatmovelove August 29, 2010 at 11:51 am

Of course – the nut butter – duhhhhh….didn’t think about that ;)

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Michelle September 1, 2010 at 4:18 pm

Just found this recipe and they look delish!! I have never tried almond butter and after seeing how much you love it i bought a jar today! I AM ADDICTED! I LOVE IT!

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Michelle September 1, 2010 at 4:20 pm

Can you make a big batch and freeze these?

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HEAB September 1, 2010 at 4:22 pm

Michelle,
So happy to hear you are addicted to almond butter. That’s like music to my ears. :)

Enjoy the muffins, and yes, they freeze quite well!

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