How To Make Skinny Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
Whip up a batch of soft and moist snacks with this banana muffins recipe! They have all the sweetness of honey and nuttiness of peanuts for a sweet treat.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2large bananas,(about 1 cup), ripe, mashed with no chunks
- ¼cuphoney,or pure maple syrup
- ¼cupdark brown sugar,packed
- ½cupplain Greek yogurt,or regular yogurt, any flavor/fat content
- 1large egg
- ⅓cupunsweetened almond milk,or cow’s milk, soy milk, rice milk
- ½cupcreamy peanut butter,or non-oily natural style
- 2tsppure vanilla extract
- 1¾cupswhite whole wheat flour,spooned and leveled, *
- 1tspground cinnamon
- 1tspbaking soda
- 1tspbaking powder
- ¼tspsalt
- ⅓cupmini chocolate chips,optional
- ¼cupcreamy peanut butter,melted, optional
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Spray 12-count muffin pan with nonstick spray. Set aside.
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In a medium bowl, whisk the mashed bananas, honey, brown sugar, yogurt, egg, and milk together until combined. Whisk in the peanut butter and vanilla extract until smooth and thick. Set aside.
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In a large bowl, whisk the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and chocolate chips together.
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Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and lightly whisk until combined. **
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Fill the muffin cups practically all the way to the top. Between ¾ full and all the way full.
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Bake for 5 minutes at 425 degrees F. Keeping the muffins in the oven, reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F and continue to bake for 12 more minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Drizzle muffins with melted peanut butter, serve, and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
- *Or an even mix of whole wheat and all-purpose flour.
- **Try not to over-stir the muffin batter or the muffins will have a tough texture. Stir as little as possible until no flour pockets remain.
- Muffins stay fresh at room temperature for 3 days.
Nutrition
- Calories: 260.43kcal
- Fat: 11.36g
- Saturated Fat: 3.22g
- Trans Fat: 0.03g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.59g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.40g
- Carbohydrates: 35.27g
- Fiber: 3.60g
- Sugar: 17.66g
- Protein: 7.91g
- Cholesterol: 18.03mg
- Sodium: 208.60mg
- Calcium: 79.11mg
- Potassium: 254.56mg
- Iron: 1.26mg
- Vitamin A: 7.38µg
- Vitamin C: 2.05mg
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