Healthy Banana Peanut Butter Chocolate Muffins
A must try! Soft and tender healthy banana peanut butter chocolate muffins (refined sugar-free) that are so easy to make. I'm using whole grain spelt flour and natural sweetener. Give these a try, you'll love them!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cup whole grain spelt flour ((260 g))
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1/2 cup buttermilk (, room temperature)
- 1/2 cup peanut butter ((140 g))
- 1/4 cup honey (or maple syrup) ((80 g))
- 2 large eggs (, room temperature)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder ((25 g), sifted)
- 6 oz chocolate of choice ((170 g), chopped)
Instructions
- 1
Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.
- 2
Place bananas into another bowl and mash them into puree. Add the rest of wet ingredients and mix everything well using a hand whisk.
- 3
Add 1/2 of dry ingredients and continue mixing, just don't over do it. Add the rest of dry ingredients and mix everything well. Now reserve some batter into another bowl for later.
- 4
Add cocoa powder to the rest of the batter and mix. Lastly reserve some chopped chocolate for later and add the rest in and give everything one last stir.
- 5
Spray a 12 hole muffin pan with some oil. Divide chocolate batter evenly into the pan. Now spoon some of the reserved batter on top. Make some swirls using a knife. Lastly sprinkle the reserved chopped chocolate on top.
- 6
Bake in a preheated oven at 350ºF (175ºC) for 20 minutes or until an inserted skewer comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave for 5 minutes. Run a knife all around to help loosen the muffins. Remove them from the pan and leave to cool completely on a rack. Enjoy!
- 7
Note: These are huge muffins. You can get more than 12 if you make them smaller.
- 8
Keep in air tight container at room temperature up to 2 days. Then I would recommend you to freeze them.
- 9
To freeze: Wrap them individually with cling film, place them in a ziploc bag and into the freezer up to 2 months.
- 10
To defrost: Thaw at room temperature. Warm in a microwave to bring it to life.