Fluffy Maple Nut Banana Bread Muffins
Delicious, easy, healthy, and moist maple banana nut muffins. These muffins are subtly sweet and completely vegan. They are the perfect snack to share with family and friends.
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Fluffy Maple Nut Banana Bread Muffins
Good morning everyone! Today, I am going to be kicking off the week on a positive note with a fresh new recipe that serves as the perfect breakfast, snack, or dessert option. I decided to switch up the base that I use for my typical vegan muffin recipes by using a combination of oat and bread flour.
The result was these absolutely delicious maple banana walnut muffins. This recipe has a subtle sweetness, which makes it the perfect breakfast option. It has a nice crunch on top thanks to the chopped walnuts. Overall, it’s a really tasty vegan muffin recipe that I think you guys are really going to enjoy.
Now, let’s go over some quick things to note for this recipe. Then, we will take a look at the list of ingredients you will need to make this vegan maple nut banana bread muffins recipe a smashing success!
How Ripe Do Bananas Need to Be for Banana Muffins?
Whenever I am making banana bread, banana muffins, or even banana ice cream, I prefer to use ripe or overripe bananas. With banana bread and muffins specifically, I think overripe bananas work best for two reasons. First, they are much sweeter than unripe bananas. Bananas that have a greenish peel tend to be way less sweet than overripe bananas. Since we are using the bananas to make a sweet baked good, we want as much sweetness as possible. Second, overripe bananas tend to be softer and easier to mash. This makes them perfect to include in recipes such as banana bread. If the peels of your bananas are yellow with brown spots, they are perfect to use in recipes such as these banana muffins.
Now that we have covered a few quick things to note for this recipe, let’s take a look at the list of ingredients you will need to make these moist and fluffy maple nut banana bread muffins.
Fluffy Maple Nut Banana Bread Muffins – Ingredients
- Quick Cooking Oats – The first ingredient you will need for this recipe are the quick oats. This ingredient will be blended up to form a fine oat flour, which will serve as the bulk of the dry base for this recipe.
- Bread Flour – The bread flour is the other important dry base ingredient which will be combined with the oat flour to form the perfect light and fluffy consistency for these muffins.
- Coconut Sugar – The coconut sugar serves as one of the main ingredients used to add sweetness to these muffins. It pairs perfectly with the other ingredients used in this muffin recipe.
- Walnuts – The walnuts are used to add flavor, richness, and a nice crunchy topping to this banana bread muffin recipe. You will want to chop your walnuts finely before sprinkling them on top of the muffin batter.
- Baking Powder – The baking powder is one of the main leavening agents used in this recipe to ensure that the muffins rise.It is an important ingredient that you definitely don’t want to forget.
- Baking Soda – The baking soda is the other essential leavening agent used in this recipe to help the muffins rise.
- Unsweetened Applesauce – The unsweetened applesauce provides these banana bread muffins with a ton of moisture. It also adds some natural sweetness to the muffins.
- Overripe Banana – The ripe or overripe banana adds even more moisture and sweetness to this recipe. After all, you can’t have banana bread muffins without the banana.
- Pure Maple Syrup – The pure maple syrup adds flavor, moisture, and a ton of sweetness to these maple nut banana bread muffins. It is the perfect liquid sweetener to use in this recipe.
- Nut Milk – The nut milk thins the batter out a bit. It also adds creaminess to the muffin batter. I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk in this recipe, but you can use whichever kind you have on hand or enjoy most.
- Pure Vanilla Extract – The pure vanilla extract amplifies all the flavors present in these banana bread muffins. A little bit goes a long way. If you don’t have pure vanilla extract, you can omit it in this recipe.
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Fluffy Maple Nut Banana Bread Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups quick cooking oats (blended into a fine oat flour)
- 1/2 cup bread flour
- 1/4 cup coconut sugar
- 3 tbsp walnuts (finely chopped)
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 medium overripe banana
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tbsp nut milk (I used unsweetened vanilla almond milk)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350° F.
- Add the oat flour, bread flour, coconut sugar, baking powder, and baking soda to a large mixing bowl.
- Mix to combine thoroughly.
- Thoroughly mash the bananas.
- Make a well in the center of the mixing bowl, then add the mashed bananas, applesauce, maple syrup, nut milk, and pure vanilla extract.
- Mix the wet ingredients together, then slowly mix the wet ingredients into the dry to form a smooth muffin batter (don't overmix!).
- Line or grease 10 cavities of a muffin pan.
- Fill each cavity about 3/4 of the way full with the muffin batter.
- Evenly distribute the finely chopped walnuts on top of the muffin batter.
- Bake the muffins for for about 28 – 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Dig in and enjoy!
Notes
I hope you guys try this recipe out. It is super quick, it requires less than 10 ingredients, and it makes the perfect breakfast, snack, or dessert option! These muffins are also great to pack up and take with you on the go. Anyway, that’s it for this recipe. As per usual, I will be back with another blog post very soon.
-Alyssa 🙂
