Banana Muffins, Diabetic and Delicious
photo by Tea Jenny
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 2 -3 bananas, mashed (about 1 cup/250 ml)
- 1⁄4 cup no sugar added apple butter (60 ml)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (5 ml)
- 2 tablespoons splenda brown sugar (30 ml)
- 3⁄4 cup low-fat buttermilk (175 ml)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil (30 ml)
- 1 1⁄2 cups whole wheat flour (375 ml)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda (10 ml)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt (2 ml)
- 1⁄4 cup oat bran (60 ml)
- freshly grated nutmeg, to taste
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground allspice (1 ml)
- 1⁄2 cup blueberries (fresh or still frozen (125 ml)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Prepare a medium muffin tin by lining with muffin paper or brushing/spraying with oil.
- Sift flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl and add oat bran, nutmeg and all spice.
- Stir well to combine and set aside.
- Mash banana in a bowl.
- Add apple butter, vanilla, Splenda brown sugar, buttermilk and vegetable oil, stir to combine.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the flour mixture.
- Stir with a wooden spoon until just combined (some of the flour may still remain visible) but do not over mix or the muffins will be tough.
- Fold in the blueberries.
- Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin tins.
- Put in the middle rack of oven.
- Bake until golden, about 18-23 minutes (or until a tester comes out clean).
- Makes 12 medium muffins.
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Reviews
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It's great to have a low sugar/low fat healthy muffin available for breakfast on the run. I liked this a lot but for some reason it wasn't as banana flavored as I expected. That must be the fault of the bananas. Maybe they weren't ripe enough as they were still at a stage where I would eat them plain. Usually I use overripe bananas for banana bread. I'd also like more blueberries and would probably double the quantity next time. Made for 1,2,3 Hits Tag.
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Mmmm!!! this morning I had hot banana muffins and hot coffee waiting for DH when he came home after working a night shift, he was cold and hungry and these muffins hit the spot. I am the diabetic, but I never let on that they were diabetic friendly and he thought they were great. I made them to the recipe with the addition of some walnuts just to give them a bit of crunch. A very nice recipe Annacia thank you for posting. Made for warm up January 2011 and we sure do need warming up it's freezing here, now I have gone and done it he will be wanting this every cold morning.
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Mmmm, these were such a lovely warm breakfast for a cool fall day! I did make a few subs: I used unsweetened applesauce instead of apple butter, diluted plain yogurt for buttermilk, real sugar, and strawberries instead of blueberries. The recipe accommodated my changes well! The only comment I have is that the bake time might have been a bit long for my oven; my muffins came out fairly brown. I love how much the batter rose, though--it made for a much more attractive muffin than the hockey pucks I've been known to make :). Thanks so much for posting! Made for Veg*n Swap #16.
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Mmmm, these were such a lovely warm breakfast for a cool fall day! I did make a few subs: I used unsweetened applesauce instead of apple butter, diluted plain yogurt for buttermilk, real sugar, and strawberries instead of blueberries. The recipe accommodated my changes well! The only comment I have is that the bake time might have been a bit long for my oven; my muffins came out fairly brown. I love how much the batter rose, though--it made for a much more attractive muffin than the hockey pucks I've been known to make :). Thanks so much for posting! Made for Veg*n Swap #16.