Blender Banana Oatmeal Muffins
These banana oatmeal muffins contain no flour, no butter, no gluten (as long as you use gluten-free certified oats), and they’re naturally sweetened with honey. While the texture is different than a typical muffin recipe, they’re moist, dense, and chewy, making them feel substantive for a breakfast or for adding to a school lunch box. We typcially make some with chocolate chips, some with blueberries.
Ingredients
- 2 cups old fashioned rolled oats quick cooking or old fashioned
- 2 large bananas very ripe
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 2 to 3 tablespoons honey you may adjust the amount to suit your preferences for sweetness
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 T. flax seed optional
- Up to ½ cup mix-ins: chocolate chips mini or regular chopped dark chocolate, nuts, dried cranberries, or blueberries (fresh or frozen and rinsed) You can mix and match!
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Lightly grease a 12-cup standard muffin tin or line with paper liners. If using liners, lightly grease them as well. Set aside.
- Place all of the ingredients but the mix-ins in a blender or the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade: oats, bananas, eggs, Greek yogurt, honey, baking powder, baking soda, vanilla extract, flax seed if using, and salt.
- Blend or process on high, stopping to scrape down and stir the ingredients once or twice as needed, until the batter is smooth and the oats have broken down almost completely; about 3 minutes.
- By hand, stir in the mix-ins. If the batter is warm from the appliance’s motor, the chocolate chips may melt and swirl as they are stirred. If this bothers you, let the batter cool for 10 minutes before adding them.
- Divide the batter among the prepared muffin cups, filling each no more than three-quarters of the way to the top.
- Sprinkle with additional chocolate chips or nuts as desired.
- Bake for 15 minutes, until the tops of the muffins are set and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Place the pan on a wire rack and let the muffins cool in the pan for 10 minutes. They will deflate but still taste delicious.
- Remove from the pan and enjoy!
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!