Description
These Paleo Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins taste just like your mom’s homemade banana chocolate chip muffins, but way healthier than the ones you remember. They’re gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, and have no sugar added – these muffins are sweetened with only bananas!
Ingredients
- 3–4 (380g) medium bananas, 1⅔ cups mashed
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 3 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup (85g) creamy almond butter
- ⅓ cup (50g) coconut flour
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 ounces dark chocolate, chopped
Instructions
- Line a 12 pan muffin tin with paper liners and preheat the oven to 350ºF.
- In a large bowl or mixer, combine the mashed bananas, eggs, coconut oil, vanilla extract and almond butter until fully combined.
- Add the coconut flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt to the wet ingredients and mix well. Fold in the chocolate chunks.
- Divide the muffin batter between the 12 muffin liners, filling each about 2/3 of the way full. Top with more chocolate chunks or chips, if desired.
- Bake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes. A toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean, and the muffins should spring back when poked with a finger (not stay indented).
- Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack for about ½ hour. Flip out onto a cooling rack to finish cooling.
Notes
To keep the muffins Paleo and refined sugar-free, use Paleo-friendly chocolate or try making your own.
Also, when these muffins were first posted, they included an almond butter filling. I removed it from the recipe because I don’t think it’s necessary and it weighed down the muffins a bit. But, if you want to do that still, here are the instructions: add 1 tablespoon of batter to the bottom of each pan. Add a heaping teaspoon of almond butter to the center of each muffin. Divide the remaining batter evenly into the muffin cups, about another tablespoon of batter.
Nutrition
- Calories: 198
- Sugar: 3
- Sodium: 148
- Fat: 13
- Saturated Fat: 6
- Carbohydrates: 12
- Fiber: 4
- Protein: 4
- Cholesterol: 41