BAKING | BANANA MUFFINS

Healthy Banana Muffins

To say these are genuinely healthy might be a stretch, but they aren’t too sweet and they do have some redeeming health qualities like walnuts and hemp seeds. So I am claiming health adjacent!

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I am on a mission to stock up my freezer with goodies before this baby arrives, but I am also extremely tired, so truly not in the mood to re-invent the wheel – enter the trusty banana muffin! These are truly so so easy and not overly sweet, which I personally like!

This was the second instalment of my little post-partum series which you can follow along on instagram.

Healthy Banana Muffins

Maple sweetened, hemp seed, walnut and chocolate banana muffins.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 18 minutes mins

Servings: 12 muffins

Course: Dessert

Ingredients Method

Ingredients

  

• 3 Bananas ripe and mashed
• 1/3 cup Maple Syrup
• 1/2 cup Butter melted
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla essence or paste
• 1 1/2 cup Plain Flour
• 1/2 cup Hemp seeds
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 1 tsp Baking Powder
• 1 tsp Cinnamon
• 40 g Walnuts roughly chopped
• 100 g Dark chocolate chips
• 12 tsp Rolled oats
• 12 pinches Brown sugar

Method

 

1. Preheat your oven to 180℃.
2. In a big bowl, combine the bananas, maple syrup, eggs, butter and vanilla extract. Whisk well to combine.
3. In another bowl, combine the flour, hemp seeds, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Mix until combined.
4. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ones. The fold in the chocolate chips and walnuts.
5. Oil or butter your muffin tray and decant about a 1/3 of a cup of the mixture into each muffin tray well. Then sprinkle each muffin with a teaspoon of rolled oats and a pinch of salt.
6. Bake for 16-18 minutes, or until your knife just comes out clean.