Over the weekend I shared a picture of the whole wheat banana muffins that I was making for our weekend breakfast on Instagram and a couple of people asked me to post the recipe. I was pretty excited! I don’t ever remember anyone asking me to post a recipe on my blog!
Ingredients
- 3 C whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2/3 C coconut oil
- 1 C honey (you could use agave too)
- 4 eggs (I used egg beaters)
- 2 C mashed bananas (I used little red bananas because that's what the store had on sale)
- 1/2 C hot water
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Preheat the over to 350 degrees.
- Stir the dry ingredients together in a bowl and set aside.
- Mash the bananas in a small bowl.
- In another large bowl whisk together the coconut oil and honey until combined, add in the eggs and then bananas. Whisk until their all combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet and alternate with the hot water (to make it easy add the vanilla to the water). Make sure that you mix well after each addition.
- Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin tins. I used a large muffin pan and a regular sized one and got 6 large and 12 regular. You can use any combination that you want.
- For the regular sized muffin pan bake for about 15 minutes.
They were good! Even more than that they were a bit more healthy than the traditional recipe that I normally make which is full of butter. Yes… that is butter on the muffin you in the picture there… I had to. Why? Everything is better with butter even if it’s not healthy for us.
As a simple, base recipe this is pretty good. But I think that you could jazz them up (that sounds lame doesn’t it?) by adding in some oatmeal, diced apples, chopped walnuts, or even a few mini chocolate chips.
I’ve been trying lately to find way to make some of my baked goods a bit more healthy by using less butter or vegetable oil, sugars, and white flour. Obviously this isn’t going to work for everything but muffins are a great start.
What do you do to make your recipes a bit more healthy?