Today I am sharing my sugar free banana muffins recipe with you! I came up with this recipe a few years ago, and I haven’t used another recipe since. These healthy banana muffins only use maple syrup, honey, and apple sauce to sweeten them(and of course the bananas!). They are honestly sweet enough to be a healthy banana cupcake recipe! All you have to do is throw some frosting on top, and you would have yourself a delicious and healthier version of a cupcake! For today though, we will focus on them as more of a healthy banana breakfast muffin. You can feel good about eating these on the side of a balanced breakfast, or take them along with you as a snack to have thought the day!
Ingredients needed for these Sugar Free Banana Muffins:
- Bananas
- Apple Sauce (or strawberry apple sauce)
- Honey
- Maple Syrup
- Coconut Oil
- Maple or Vanilla Extract
- Egg
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Whole Wheat Flour
- Baking Soda
- Sea Salt
- Chocolate Chips
- Shredded Coconut
- Crushed Pecans or Walnuts
Can I substitute to make these healthy banana muffins flourless?
If you are wanting a flourless muffin option, then I would suggest swapping your whole wheat flour with oat flour. It does change the density of the muffin slightly, but still tastes delicious! To make oat flour, all you have to do is measure out your oats as you would your flour, and then blend in a blender until it’s a fine powder! Make sure to add equal parts oat flour(not whole oats!) when substituting for whole wheat.
How do I make my sugar free banana muffin recipe vegan?
For this sugar free banana muffin recipe, most of the ingredients fall into the vegan category. If you are wanting to make this recipe fully vegan, you can swap out your egg for a flax egg. If you aren’t quite sure how to make a flax egg I attached a link here that will help answer any questions!
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Sugar Free Banana Muffins
Equipment
- 1 Large mixing bowl
- 1 muffin tin
- 12-14 Muffin liners
- 1 Mixing spoon
Ingredients
- 3 Ripe Bananas
- 1/2 Cup Apple Sauce I use applesauce pouches, so sometimes I use strawberry or peach applesauce which works just fine!
- 1/4 Cup Honey
- 1/4 Cup Maple Syrup
- 4 Tbsp. Coconut Oil melted
- 1-2 Tsp. Maple Extract Vanilla Extract works just fine as well
- 1 Egg
- 2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
- 1 Tsp. Cinnamon or 2 Tsp if you really love the cinnamon flavor
- 1/4 Tsp. Nutmeg
- 1 Tsp. Baking Soda
- 1/4 Tsp. Sea Salt
- 1/2 Cup Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips **Optional**
- 1/2 Cup Shredded Coconut
- 1/2 Cup Pecans or Walnuts Crushed
- Spray Coconut or Avocado Oil For muffin liners
Instructions
- Pre-heat your oven to 350ºF
- Peel bananas and place in a large mixing bowl.
- With a pastry blender or potato masher, mash bananas until they are a lumpy liquid consistency.
- Add apple sauce, maple syrup, honey, melted coconut oil, and egg. Whisk ingredients together until smooth.
- In a smaller bowl, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt. Mix ingredients with a fork so that they are all well combined.
- Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Fold in dry ingredients until all of the flour is mixed in. Try not to over mix..
- Next, fold in chocolate chips, shredded coconut, and nuts into your muffin batter.
- Line muffin tin with muffin liners. Spray liners with a mild oil like coconut or avocado oil(optional), and fill each liner almost all the way to the top with muffin batter.
- Bake muffins for 20-25 minutes, until the tops are golden brown, and a toothpick or a fork comes out clean when poked into the centre of one.
- Remove muffins and allow to cook on a cooling wrack or the counter.
- Enjoy!
These are one of my favorite recipes you make! Seriously to die for! Thanks for sharing!
So good to hear! Thank you so much for your feedback! I’m so happy you enjoy them!