Heavenly Banana-Nut Oat Muffins are light, tasty muffins full of fiber and protein. The perfect healthy snack!
These muffins are pretty much the most amazing healthy muffins ever! This recipe comes from The Skinny Taste cookbook. If you are a fan of Gina’s website, Skinny Taste, you know her recipes don’t disappoint! Skinny yes, full of flavor too? Absolutely! These muffins have only 1 tablespoon of oil and a small amount of sugar, it gets its moisture and sweetness from the ripe and naturally sweet bananas.
This recipe also is a great source of whole grains as the grains are mostly oats and some whole wheat flour. The original recipe called for walnuts but I added pecans instead because I made some of these for my mom and pecans are her favorite.
I also made it again and made some with no nuts for my husband and some with nuts and chocolate chips for me and some with just chocolate chips for the kids. It’s great no matter what you prefer! I actually usually don’t like nuts in my baked goods but it was so good in this recipe.
I am so excited to now have a healthy snack recipe that is good for me AND tastes so good!
I know you will love it too!
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Enjoy!
You could also substitute the nuts for chocolate chips or your favorite dried fruit.Heavenly Banana-Nut Oat Muffins
Ingredients
Instructions
Notes
(This recipe sometimes makes more like 14 muffins, depending on mix-ins added)
Recipe slightly adapted from The Skinny Taste Cookbook by Gina Homolka
I love how easy these are, perfect to grab on the way out the door in the morning! YUM!!!
Yes, that’s what makes them so great! A quick healthy snack or even breakfast!
These look delicious! They would be perfect for my breakfast. My family loves muffins!
Thanks! These are the perfect quick and healthy breakfast! 🙂
These look absolutely delicious and could go for one of these with my coffee right now!
Thanks so much! 😀
These banana muffins look delicious and they are going on my to do list.
The Old Fat Guy
These would make the perfect breakfast food – healthy and delicious! Thank you for sharing your recipe at the Talented Tuesday Link Party, I can’t wait to make some!
I absolutely love this recipe!! It is so, so good and so easy too! Happy Tuesday!!
I’m so glad you like it! It’s a favorite here!
Hello! how many muffins did you do with this recipe?
Hi Geovana- I did mention it in the post but it makes 12 muffins. Enjoy!
I made this and it makes at least 12 very generous muffins. I ended up with 18 regular muffins. The batter is very thin.
I’ve made this quite a few times and the batter was been pretty thick for me so I’m not sure why yours was so thin? Sorry. It does seem like it would make more like 14 though. I usually just pack it full to make 12 since it doesn’t rise too much.
Can you use regular old fashioned oats?
I haven’t tried it but I think it would work. Let me know how it turns out. Thanks!
Do you know if you can substitute applesauce for the banana? I make these all the time but my bananas are not ripe enough but I have applesauce on hand.
Honestly, I’m not sure but it’s worth a try! Let me know how it turns out please! I’m sure bananas that aren’t ripe enough would work.
I tried it and it was so good! Still have some leftover in the freezer and thanks for the reply!
I made these muffins because they are so much more healthy than traditional recipes. But WOW are they the best banana muffins ever! They are incredibly moist and delicious – it’s gotta be magic because there is practically zero oil in the recipe. They freeze really well – just pull out a serving and let it thaw or zap it in the microwave for about 20 seconds – it’s like they were just baked. I used walnuts – great crunch. I also made 18 muffins from one recipe – they were still a good size and – less calories. I will keep these in my freezer routinely!
I’m so glad you love it! It is like magic with barely any oil huh? I’ll have to try freezing these next time I make it. Thanks for your comment! 🙂
How many calories is one muffin? I always make 12 and use the walnuts.
I don’t have calorie information on my website but you can find many wonderful resources to help you calculate the nutritional information online.