Whole Wheat Honey Banana Muffins

A Messy Cook's Note:

These muffins are delicious and have a great texture, and they are 100% healthy! No refined flour or sweeteners. We have a big family, so this recipe makes a lot of muffins, but it is easily halved for a smaller group. To make the muffins lower in fat, replace half of the oil with unsweetened applesauce. I also use "white whole-wheat" flour, which is softer than that made with red wheat (but has the exact same nutritional value).

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 24 muffins

• 3 ½ cups whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons wheat germ (optional)
• 2⁄3; cup olive oil or 2⁄3; cup canola oil
• 1 cup honey
• 4 eggs
• 2 cups mashed ripe bananas
• ½ cup hot water

Directions:

1. Stir together dry ingredients.
2. Beat oil and honey together; add eggs and beat well.
3. Add bananas and beat to combine.
4. Add dry ingredients to wet, alternating with hot water; mix well after each addition.
5. Spoon batter into 24 greased muffin cups; bake at 325 degrees for 15 minutes, or until muffins are golden brown and test done.
6. Remove from oven and cool on rack.

Reviews

[Kohtzy]

These were excellent! We halved the recipe and used 1/2 applesauce 1/2 olive oil. We also included some semi-sweet chocolate chips. Yummy!! They turned out perfectly - moist, sweet and healthy!

[JoyfulGirl]

I'll be honest, I was super-skeptical about whole wheat muffins being delicious. But I tried them anyway, using the super-crunchy whole wheat flour I had laying around, and they were a huge hit with all the picky people in my household.

I did add chopped walnuts and only had 1/2 c. honey so I subbed brown sugar for the other 1/2 c.

[kadusey]

Made half the recipe, which gave me 24 mini muffins, 6 normal muffins, and a very short mini-loaf. I added some dark brown sugar (a couple Tbsps.) because we've got some serious sweet tooths at our house that wouldn't eat them otherwise. I didn't bother with beating things separately, just mixed the wet ingredients, dumped in all the dry, and mixed till combined. They are delicious and my 2 year old keeps asking for more.