Wholesome Blueberry Banana Muffins – Sally’s Baking Habit

August 21, 2023

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This recipe for wholesome blueberry banana muffins has lived on my web site since 2013. I’ve made a couple of adjustments to the unique recipe, and might guarantee you they’re higher than ever! They’re splendidly healthful and comfortable, and are fast and straightforward to make and not using a mixer. Each chunk is crammed with juicy blueberries and candy banana taste, and you should use nondairy milk to maintain the muffins dairy free.

On the subject of muffins, do you’ve got a favourite taste? There are such a lot of totally different varieties on the market, from egg muffins to chocolate muffins, that it’s just about inconceivable to decide on. It’s a part of the rationale I developed this muffin recipe as a base batter for infinite flavors! But when banana muffins and blueberry muffins are each in your High 5, let me let you know…

Why You’ll Love These Wholesome Blueberry Banana Muffins

stack of two healthy blueberry banana muffins on cooling rack.

Huge, sugary dessert-like muffins are an exquisite deal with (taking a look at you, pumpkin crumb cake muffins!) however a more healthy muffin that’s additionally simple to make and fabulously scrumptious is the kind I select on a weekly foundation. Immediately’s recipe is a favourite kid-friendly baking recipe (simple to combine & fast to bake), they usually freeze splendidly.

On the identical be aware, every time a reader asks me for kid-friendly recipes which can be additionally on the more healthy finish of the baked items spectrum, I all the time recommend muffins. Muffins are fast, manageable, transportable, acceptable for breakfast and snack time, and normally require little or no clean-up.

These blueberry banana muffins match the invoice. They’re simply candy sufficient so youngsters gobble them up, however are made with better-for-you substances like complete wheat flour, coconut oil, and bananas.

Key Substances You Want & Why:

ingredients on counter including flour, blueberries, mashed banana, honey, milk, and coconut oil.

Flour: I recommend utilizing white-whole wheat flour or a mix of all-purpose and complete wheat flour (I normally use a cup of every). If you happen to use ALL complete wheat flour, count on a denser texture.
Mashed Banana: Banana naturally sweetens the muffins. Similar to whenever you’re making banana bread, it’s finest to make use of tremendous brown, speckled bananas—the riper, the higher. You should use frozen and thawed bananas, too. See How you can Freeze & Thaw Bananas for Baking for some suggestions.
Brown Sugar: The style and texture advantages from a little bit brown sugar. If you wish to skip all refined sugars, you’ll be able to substitute coconut sugar.
Honey or Pure Maple Syrup: Honey or maple syrup finally ends up the job of sweetening these muffins, and provides some moisture as effectively.
Coconut Oil: As an alternative of butter or vegetable oil, use melted coconut oil. You’ll be able to all the time depend on oil to maintain your baked items moist, particularly once they’re made with drying substances like complete wheat flour.
Egg: The egg acts as a binder for the substances, and likewise helps maintain the muffins comfortable.
Milk: You should use any sort of milk, dairy or nondairy, you’ve got readily available. I normally use almond or oat milk to make these muffins.
Blueberries: Can’t have blueberry banana muffins with out blueberries! You should use both recent or frozen berries right here. If utilizing frozen, don’t thaw.

You additionally want these baking fundamentals: baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, and vanilla extract.

Don’t like banana? Strive these blueberry oatmeal muffins as a substitute.

muffin batter with blueberries in glass bowl on marble counter.

Immediately’s muffin batter comes collectively in simply minutes with easy kitchen instruments: a pair mixing bowls, a whisk, a spatula, and a muffin pan. (If you happen to want a suggestion, this muffin pan and this muffin pan have each held up effectively with very common use.)

Count on a thick batter. As with ALL muffin recipes, don’t over-mix it! Solely combine the batter till the moist and dry substances are *simply mixed* and no extra flour pockets stay. Over-mixing your batter will activate the gluten within the flour and overdevelop it, deflating the air bubbles within the course of. This leads to a troublesome, laborious, dense muffin—not comfortable and fluffy like you might be aiming for.

Let’s not overlook these blueberries. Add a heaping cup (extra like a cup and 1 / 4) of recent or frozen blueberries to the batter. If you happen to’re utilizing frozen blueberries, don’t allow them to thaw, or else you’ll have some muddy-purple muffins that look a bit much less interesting! Fold them in gently with a spatula, in order that they’re evenly distributed within the batter.

blueberry muffin batter in lined gold muffin pan.

baked healthy blueberry banana muffins with one cut open in gold muffin pan.

I really like sprinkling the tops of the muffins with a little bit coarse sugar earlier than baking, a completion I all the time add when making these wholesome apple muffins, too.

3 Useful Suggestions

Count on a semi-thick batter. Thick batter helps make sure the muffins carry UP somewhat than unfold OUT.
Add an optionally available coarse sugar topping. You should use coconut sugar, one thing like Sugar within the Uncooked, or glowing coarse sugar (normally bought as sprinkles). Or don’t add something in any respect, the muffins are lots scrumptious and not using a topping!
Bake at an initially excessive oven temperature. Bake the muffins for five minutes in a very popular oven. Then, protecting the muffins within the oven, decrease the oven temperature. This preliminary excessive oven temperature shortly lifts up the muffin prime. As soon as the temperature is lowered, the facilities of the muffins bake. I do that in all my muffin recipes.

blueberry banana muffin cut open on cooling rack.

Are These Blueberry Banana Muffins Wholesome?

I’d say these are a healthy-ish muffin. Like my flourless peanut butter oatmeal cookies, they’re made with some more healthy alternate options to conventional baking substances, however nonetheless embrace sugar. On the subject of labeling recipes as wholesome, use the most effective judgment for YOU.

I Have Loads of More healthy Muffin Recipes:

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