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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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
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!
Just baked these and WOW! Moist and amazing! I’m taking them to a party and really wishing I’d doubled the recipe!
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
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.
Jennica, So glad you enjoyed them.
wait where is the stevia?
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.
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.
Triple N Stephie, Use peanut butter and regular sugar or peanut butter and applesauce.
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!?
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Michelle
Michelle, You’re right. You cannot go wrong with those ingredients. Enjoy!
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.
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.
Heather, I made your muffins yesterday and they are amazingly good! Awesome recipe, love the use of almond butter on my muffins! Thanks!!!
Ana
Ana, So glad you enjoyed.
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.
Cindy, So glad you enjoyed!
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 !!!
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.
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?
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!
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!
G, So glad you liked the muffins or cake I guess I should say.
Wooowww…
I just baked this muffins. They didn’t last 5 minutes…all gone!
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
SoloSzabi, So glad you liked the muffins! I always make my own oat flour – just pulse rolled oats in your blender or food processor.
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!
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.
Elizabeth, Oops, I meant 2 TBSP flax seeds gelled in 1/4 cup water.
Genius.
Thanks Alex.
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
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
these are life changing!
Gigi, Hehe – so glad you though so.
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?
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.
Of course – the nut butter – duhhhhh….didn’t think about that
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!
Can you make a big batch and freeze these?
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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