More healthy Chocolate Banana Muffins – Sally’s Baking Habit

These double chocolate banana muffins style like a deal with, however they’re made with coconut oil, entire wheat flour, honey, and naturally candy mashed bananas. Take pleasure in the entire wealthy chocolate taste and moist texture of chocolate cake, however in a barely more healthy entire wheat muffin.

For an additional particular deal with, you possibly can even attempt them with a peanut butter swirl! See beneath.

Let’s go forward and name these a more healthy model of normal double chocolate muffins. Right this moment’s recipe was initially revealed in 2016, and it stays on common rotation. I’m bringing it again from the archives with new photographs and clearer directions… as a result of nobody ought to miss out on these!

This can be a nice recipe to make for youths’ lunch packing containers or after-school snacks. Or possibly even a first-day-of-school particular breakfast. They’ll suppose they’re getting a chocolate cupcake, however you’ll know the reality!

Reader Krithika says: “…Intensely chocolatey and amazingly moist, higher than many cupcakes I’ve eaten…”

Right here’s Why You’ll Love These Double Chocolate Banana Muffins

• Constituted of fundamental components
• Tremendous moist with wealthy chocolate taste
• Fast and simple, similar to common banana muffins
• A extra healthful model of those double chocolate muffins
• Makes use of entire wheat flour for a dietary increase
• A scrumptious approach to make use of up your spotty bananas
• Dairy free if utilizing dairy-free chocolate chips

Reader Sydney commented: “These are wonderful!! They don’t style ‘wholesome’ and even like entire wheat muffins— you’d by no means know they weren’t simply your typical bakery model double chocolate muffins. I’d say they weren’t tremendous banana-heavy on the flavour both, which was truly a optimistic for us…★★★★★”

Elements You Want & Why:

• Bananas: Bananas naturally sweeten the muffins. Be sure you’re utilizing tremendous brown speckled bananas—the riper, the higher. The chocolate taste overpowers the banana, so you possibly can anticipate a chocolate-forward style with hints of candy banana within the background.
• Honey: Honey finally ends up the sweetening job. Be at liberty to swap maple syrup or agave as a substitute.
• Egg: An egg helps to bind the components collectively.
• Coconut oil: You may all the time depend on oil to maintain your baked items moist, particularly once they’re made with drying components like entire wheat flour and cocoa powder.
• Vanilla extract, salt, baking powder, & baking soda: Taste and rising necessities.
• Entire wheat flour: I like to make use of entire wheat flour after I can, notably after I make more healthy variations of my favourite treats, like this entire wheat banana bread.
• Cocoa powder: Cocoa powder takes the place of a number of the flour within the recipe.
• Chocolate chips: Chocolate chips add some texture all through. Plus, extra chocolate!

Only one cup of flour on this recipe? Sure, that’s proper! Cocoa powder acts as a dry ingredient too.

Utilizing Entire Wheat Flour As an alternative of All-Goal

Entire wheat flour has a giant dietary benefit over refined white flour—it’s richer in protein, fiber, and minerals. It’s additionally heavier and heartier than white flour, so it really works particularly nicely in muffin recipes, which naturally have a denser texture than cake—take these morning glory muffins, or these applesauce muffins, for instance. Entire wheat flour absorbs numerous liquid, so it will possibly dry out your baked items. However on this recipe we’re canceling that out with the tremendous moist content material of the mashed banana.

Easy methods to Mash Bananas

I began doing this some time in the past and it’s been a complete sport changer each time I make banana muffins, breakfast cookies, or banana bread. Simply use your mixer to mash bananas! Peel and break the bananas into chunks, place in your mixer, and beat till mashed. Beat the remainder of the moist components proper into this bowl, then beat within the dry components. Really easy.

For those who’d quite not use the mixer (it actually isn’t vital for this recipe), simply mash the bananas in a giant bowl with a fork. You want 1 and 1/2 cups, which is about 345g or 3 massive bananas.

The method is very easy. Whisk the moist components and dry components collectively in separate bowls, then mix all of it. Fold within the chocolate chips, reserving some for the tops of the nice and cozy muffins.

Don’t neglect about my high-temperature trick for sky-scraping muffin tops. Begin baking the muffins in an extra-hot oven; the preliminary burst of excessive warmth raises the muffin tops straight up. Then cut back the oven temperature to cook dinner the facilities of the muffins for the remaining bake time. It’s such a easy trick that produces stunning, bakery-display-case-worthy muffins.

Anticipate a thick batter:

Peanut Butter Swirl Chocolate Banana Muffins!

For those who love a chocolate-peanut-butter-banana combo like I do, you possibly can add a peanut butter swirl to the tops of the muffins, and swap a number of the chocolate chips for peanut butter chips.

Right here’s how:

Soften 1/4 cup (about 62g) of creamy peanut butter (or use runny pure peanut butter) and spoon 1 teaspoon of it onto every muffin earlier than baking. Utilizing a knife or a toothpick, gently swirl it round into the batter. High with a number of peanut butter chips (non-obligatory).

These are a very enjoyable deal with! Youngsters and adults go nuts for that peanut butter swirl and nobody ever realizes they’re entire wheat.

Are These Wholesome?

I’d say these are a healthy-ish deal with. They’re made with some options to conventional baking components like bananas and coconut oil as a substitute of butter, honey as a substitute of refined sugar, and entire wheat flour as a substitute of white. Nonetheless, they could be too sugary for somebody who wants to observe their sugar consumption.

In terms of labeling recipes as wholesome, use the very best judgment for YOU. You may calculate the dietary info for these with the precise merchandise/manufacturers you employ with the assistance of a web-based recipe vitamin calculator.

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