Whole Wheat Banana Muffins

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

1. Not only these banana muffins are flavor rich, but also are extremely fluffy, moist and fragrant.
2. 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-

1.  Well-risen
2.  Beautifully domed
3.  Ultra Moist and light (yes at the same time!)
4.  Flavorsome to the core
5.  Buttery and fluffy
6. 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:

Lemon Blueberry Muffins

Healthy Double Chocolate Muffins

Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins

Healthy Walnut Chocolate Muffins

Healthy Banana Raspberry Muffins

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Recipe

Whole Wheat Banana Muffins

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.

5 from 14 votes

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Course: Breakfast, Dessert

Cuisine: American

US Customary - Metric

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes minutes

Servings 12 Muffins

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Calories: 181kcal

Author: Neha

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 teaspoon Baking soda
• ▢ 2 large Eggs
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon Salt
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
• ▢ ¾ teaspoon 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

US Customary - Metric

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

Storage Information:

1. You may store muffins at room temperature in an air tight container for up to 3 days. In fridge for up to 5 days.
2. Also they are freezer friendly and store well for up to 2 months. Thaw on counter top or overnight in the refrigerator before enjoying.

Substitutions:

Whole wheat pastry flour can be substituted with white whole wheat flour. But your muffins may not bake as fluffy.

If not a fan of nuts and raisins, add a cup of chocolate chips to your batter instead.

Pro Tip to quickly ripen your banana:

Poke unripe bananas with a fork and baked them for 15 minutes at 350 deg F. in a preheated oven.  Mashed them after they cool down slightly.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Muffin | Calories: 181kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Sodium: 169mg | Sugar: 20g

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