Soft, Filling, Easy and Healthy Whole Wheat Banana Muffins that wait to sit on your breakfast plate. Made in one bowl, ready in 30 minutes these are a must try!
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I have a special treat for you today. A treat you can gobble up guilt free any time of the day. Health food is never allowed to taste healthy, is it? Also, there is no pleasure in biting into a muffin that's healthy but tastes like cardboard.
This easy banana bread muffin recipe is a far cry from dry, dense and heavy(All things that some healthy muffin usually is). They are so flavorful and hearty that you can never guess these are whole wheat or lack any of the white poison sugar.
WHAT hides in your BANANA MUFFINs???
- Unrefined dietary fibers from whole wheat flour
- Nutrients packed raisins
- Metabolism improving honey
- Protein rich eggs
- Fiber boost from oats and banana
- Antioxidants rich walnuts
Walnuts addition also makes these muffins a brain health food. As we have got plenty in there. 😉 Just one muffin will make your brain rock and dance all day! 😉
Recipe Ingredients:
How to make Banana Muffins:
- Begin by mashing a dull, pale and extremely ripe looking banana. You only need a banana with as many brown spots as on a giraffe! Furthermore a banana that has no yellow color left in it will be the best.
Believe me. The ripen the banana, the merrier will be your muffin!
Quick Chemistry lesson ALERT!
Banana is single-handedly, the star of this muffin show today. Our creamy banana does a lot to muffins besides adding a fruity scent to them.
It also moistens, softens and lightens the baked goods. Helps in rising them above and beyond our expectations. Even when we are adding 100% whole wheat flour to the batter.
So much is going on inside a small innocent muffin...phewww!!!
- Moving on, mix all the wet gang of ingredients (mashed banana, egg, honey, oil and extracts) together.
- Add this to the dry mix of wheat flour, salt and baking soda. And your batter is ready. Dust your nuts with some flour. As a result, they don't sink in the bottom as muffins bake.
- Mix nuts and raisins in muffin batter.
- Pour batter in liners, sprinkle the remaining toppings and bake!
QUICK TIP TO FLAVOR PACK YOUR UNRIPE BANANA
My bananas were not as ripe as I needed them. And undoubtedly, I did not wanna wait for another minute to bake these lovely muffins.
So what did I do? I quickly poked them with a fork and baked them for 15 minutes at 350 deg F. in a preheated oven. Mashed these after they cool down slightly.
TEXTURE AND FLAVOR
- Not only these banana muffins are flavor rich, but also are extremely fluffy, moist and fragrant.
- I topped them with some nuts and a sprinkle of fiber (oats).Certainly, when chewy-crunch from walnuts and mild sweetness from raisins gets mixed with banana and a hint of vanilla, you reach healthy muffin oblivion!
Muffin Toppings:
For an ultimate texture contrast, slight crunch and added beauty, we are topping our muffins with a mix of oats, walnuts and raisins. The topping adds a little extra to these muffins. It is totally optional.
But a must for my texture loving folks out there. You can very much replace nuts with chocolate chips. As a result you got chocolate for breakfast!
Look at these baked banana beauties!!
Inspite of all healthy ingredients inside, the muffins haven't forgotten to be-
- Well-risen
- Beautifully domed
- Ultra Moist and light (yes at the same time!)
- Flavorsome to the core
- Buttery and fluffy
- Crunchy and sweet from walnuts and raisins
And most importantly their domed tops! ♥♥♥
Once again, there is no processed sugar involved in today's Banana muffins recipe. I can't stress it enough. Because they get all their sweetness from honey, natural sugars from banana and a hint of brown sugar.
However, all these ingredients also render the moistest muffin your palate would ever experience! These muffins are even better the next day (if you manage to spare any).
Substitutions
- Vegetable/Canola oil can also be substituted for coconut oil here.
- And for that buttery taste I have added butter extract to my muffins.If unavailable at your end, you may substitute half butter(melted)+half oil of the total oil used.So much goodness from whole wheat, banana, honey, walnuts, oats and raisins would open-heartedly accept little butter. Right? Right??
Take a moment to soak it all in. Because you are about to bake some mighty muffins which are so filling that only one is all you need to combat the world!
More Muffin recipes to try:
Healthy Double Chocolate Muffins
Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins
Healthy Walnut Chocolate Muffins
Healthy Banana Raspberry Muffins
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Whole Wheat Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ Cups White whole wheat pastry flour
- ⅓ Cup Coconut Oil
- 1 Cup Mashed Banana (very ripe)
- ¾ Cup Honey (or use ½ cup honey+¼ cup brown sugar)
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 2 large Eggs
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- ¾ tsp Butter extract
- ¼ Cup Milk (any kind of milk works)
- 1 ½ Cups Walnuts+raisins
To top (optional, but pretty)
- ¼ Cup Oats
- ¼ Cup Chopped Walnuts
- ¼ Cup Raisins
Instructions
- Preheat your oven at 350 deg. F (177 C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners. Set aside. Also, coat your nuts in some flour.
- In a large mixing bowl bowl mix mashed banana, honey, brown sugar (if adding), eggs(slightly beaten), coconut oil, vanilla extract and butter extract, Mix it all well.
- Sift wheat flour, baking soda and salt together over wet ingredient and fold lightly. Add milk and mix well. Take extra care while folding the batter, don't over mix. This can result into hard and rubbery muffins. Fold in the nuts.
- Pour batter in prepared liners. Top with oats and remaining nuts+raisins if desired.
- Bake Banana Bread muffins for 22-25 minutes. They should springs back when touched in the middle. Also a toothpick inserted in the middle of muffin will come out clean.
- After about 5 minutes, transfer them on a wire rack to cool down completely.
Notes
- You may store muffins at room temperature in an air tight container for up to 3 days. In fridge for up to 5 days.
- Also they are freezer friendly and store well for up to 2 months. Thaw on counter top or overnight in the refrigerator before enjoying.
Nutrition
Hi. The steps mention brown sugar but brown sugar does not appear in the ingredients list. You do mention in your description of the muffins that there is just "a hint of brown sugar."
Hi, just corrected. Thank you for noticing! The thing is you can either use 3/4th cup of honey or 1/2 cup honey and 1/4 cup or brown sugar in this recipe.
Tried this recipe today...total yum 😋 such an simple and awesome recipe..thank you for sharing the recipe...excited to try your other recipes 🙂
Glad to hear this Nithya!
Hi, do I need to add the same amount of butter as the butter extract coz I don't have it now. Thank you.
No you don't Fathima! Butter extract is artificial butter flavoring. If you want that buttery flavor in your bakes without any added flavoring. Replace the fat ie. oil with butter in that bake. 🙂
Hi
What is butter extract?
Madhuri, it is flavoring extract that gives buttery scent and taste to baked goods. If you want your muffins to taste buttery and don't have butter extract on hand, you may use butter instead of coconut oil. 🙂
any egg substitute? I generally use yogurt.
Haven't tried it without eggs yet Cherry. Yogurt might not work here. It doesn't bind baked goods. And this muffin already has a lot of moisture. You may try egg replacer. I'd love to know how it turned out if you do.
Will definitely try this out, bookmarking!
You won't regert it. 🙂
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These look so delicious!😍😋
Thanks dear! They indeed are. 🙂
Those look great. I love all the extra treats on top - the key to an eye-appealing muffin. Thanks for the tip on how to "ripen" the bananas too. 🙂
Thanks for taking time to read my post and liking it. 🙂 They taste out of the world. I hope you get to try these sometime.
I have to leave out the nuts (husband is as picky as a 4 year old), but I can do the rest. 🙂
Try substituting nuts with chocolate chips, Yumm!!!
Ha ha ha. Oh, he'll love that!
I love it. Thanks for sharing your recipe😁
Thanks for stopping by and loving it. 😉
You are welcome😁
Looks so yummy! Great recipe!
Thanks a lot!
Wow! looks delicious...
Thanks Alex!
Perfect for the breakfast! Thanks for posting these.. 🙂
Thanks a lot!
Lovely recipe, thank you for sharing!
Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
My pleasure, dear!