These Flourless Banana Oat Breakfast Muffins have become so popular with my boys. I need to make excuses as to why they can't have more muffins on certain days. These muffins have NO added sugar, truly (ok, except for just a few little chocolate chips I throw on top, but those are optional). All the sweetness from these muffins comes strictly from bananas and dates. If you require a gluten free diet you'll be pleasantly surprised how good these are too!
Bananas, Oats & Dates...Oh My!
Banana, Oats and Dates make these muffins a delicious healthier breakfast muffin. Rolled oats and flax seed add some great roughage giving these muffins some real good sustenance. These muffins may also be made with figs instead if you don't have pitted dates. I've made these muffins with both dates and figs and both are great. Between those and the bananas they all make the muffins really moist and slightly sweet.
Flourless Breakfast Muffins
I will admit right now that I'm not a believer in super sweet treats for breakfast. To me, super sweet muffins and donuts should be considered a dessert, not breakfast, unless you're on vacation. If you take out some carbs, extra sugar and add good for you ingredients you've got a recipe for some breakfast muffins that won't give you that dreaded sugar crash.
Don't let the fact that these are flourless and gluten free intimidate you. I honestly wasn't sure these would turn out well when I first made them but they were so good and moist I was quite surprised. Hopefully you will be too!
Add one of these to your kid's healthy breakfast alongside some yogurt. If you or a loved one is in a rush out the door, toss them 1 or 2 of these so they don't leave the house starving.
Power Blender Muffins
These muffins are speedy and simple to make because I literally pulverize all the ingredients in my high speed blender. Now, I will say making these muffins without a high speed blender is not recommended. Even with my powerful high speed blender, it's quite something watching it blend up these ingredients. You could truly burn out a standard blender trying to make this recipe. You could pre soak the dates for 15 to 30 minutes in some water if they're really dry, but I'd honestly still be weary of blending it in anything less powerful.
Give these fabulous flourless Banana Oat Breakfast Muffins a try and let me know what you think below!
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PrintFlourless Banana Oat Breakfast Muffins
These delicious no guilt muffins are flourless and have no added sugar (except for the optional few chocolate chips on top). They're very easy to make and freeze well. If not freezing refrigerate them and enjoy them within 4 days.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 12 regular sized muffins 1x
- Category: muffins
- Method: Oven
- Cuisine: Healthy Breakfast
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups old fashioned whole grain rolled oats
- ¼ cup ground flax seed (if you have no flax seed, just add another ¼ cup of oats)
- 2 eggs
- 3 ripe bananas
- ¾ cup pitted dates (or figs)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- A handful of semisweet or dark chocolate chips (optional, but recommended)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Add of the ingredients to a high speed blender and blend until a smooth consistency with no lumps.
- Use an ice cream scoop to add your batter to a standard sized greased muffin pan, filling up each muffin cup about ¾.
- *Optional-If you're adding chocolate chips, add a few on each muffin now pushing them into the batter slightly, just so they don't fall out after baking.
- Bake the muffins for 15-20 minutes being sure to start checking the doneness with a toothpick at 15 minutes. Do not overbake so they stay nice and moist.
Keywords: Muffin, Banana, Oats, Gluten Free, Vegetarian
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