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Sugar Free Banana Muffin recipe photo
Makhaya Shea

Sugar Free Banana Muffins

A sugar free banana muffin recipe sweetened with honey and maple syrup. A delicious healthy banana breakfast muffin, that could also be converted to a healthy banana cupcake!
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 12 servings
Course: Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine: American

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

Equipment

  • 1 Large mixing bowl
  • 1 muffin tin
  • 12-14 Muffin liners
  • 1 Mixing spoon

Method
 

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 350ºF
  2. Peel bananas and place in a large mixing bowl.
  3. With a pastry blender or potato masher, mash bananas until they are a lumpy liquid consistency.
  4. Add apple sauce, maple syrup, honey, melted coconut oil, and egg. Whisk ingredients together until smooth.
  5. In a smaller bowl, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, and salt. Mix ingredients with a fork so that they are all well combined.
  6. Pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Fold in dry ingredients until all of the flour is mixed in. Try not to over mix..
  7. Next, fold in chocolate chips, shredded coconut, and nuts into your muffin batter.
    Sugar Free Banana Muffin recipe photo
  8. 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.
    Sugar Free Banana Muffin recipe photo
  9. 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.
  10. Remove muffins and allow to cook on a cooling wrack or the counter.
  11. Enjoy!