Vegan Oil-Free Whole Wheat Banana Muffins - and Tasty!

Ravenhood's Note:

This recipe makes wonderful, very healthy banana muffins or mini loaves, although they're more dense than yoru typical banana bread if baked into mini loaves.They're especially tasty with walnuts and chocolate chips. Another recipe from my crazy experiments in the kitchen!

• Total Time: 45 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 12

Yield: 3.0 mini lo ...

Dry Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup quick oats
• 1/2 cup sugar or 1/2 cup halved with brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons ground flax seeds
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt

Wet Ingredients

• 1 cup mashed very ripe banana
• 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
• 3 tablespoons mini chocolate chips

Directions:

1. In one bowl, sift together the dry ingredients. In another bowl, mix the wet ingredients together.The walnuts and chocolate chips are optional but recommended.
2. Pour the wet mixture into the dry mixture and mix until just combined. Pour batter into 3 well-greased mini loaves or a muffin pan, and bake at 350F for 25-30 minutes. Let sit for a couple of minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Reviews

[Lalaloula]

These muffins turned out so wonderful: they were moist and cakey with chunks of nuts throughout. The taste is reminiscent of brownies, very chocolatey and yummy! Mmmm!
I made half the recipe which gave me 5 nicely sized muffins that were gone very quickly. ;)
I used less baking soda and salt and also left out the sugar, because the banana was plenty sweet (I microwaved it for 30 seconds to bring out the flavour more), but other than that stuck to your recipe and it was perfect.
THANK YOU SO MUCH for sharing it here with us, Ravenhood.
Made and reviewed for one of my babies during PAC Spring 2012.