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Here’s an easy recipe for Healthy and Delicious Blueberry Banana Muffins, lower in sugar and a mix of whole wheat and all purpose flour.
Explanation of Healthy vs. Traditional Muffins:
It’s a tough call to refer to something as “healthy” these days. I suppose “healthier” is a more accurate term. I love a good muffin that isn’t as much like cake that is full of sugar and fat. And one that has plenty of fresh fruit in it (like this one) is welcome too. A healthy muffin has reduced sugar and includes a good flour like whole wheat flour.
Ingredients Needed:
- low fat buttermilk
- light brown sugar
- unsweetened applesauce
- eggs
- mashed ripe bananas
- white whole wheat flour or regular whole wheat flour
- all purpose flour
- baking powder, baking soda and salt
- ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg
- blueberries
Here’s my little guy, and he is not so little anymore. He was just eleven years old when he created this recipe back in 2013). Now he’s out of college, living and working in Dallas, Texas. Crazy!
How to make Healthy Banana Blueberry Muffins:
The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.
- Preheat the oven to 400℉. Spray a 12 cup muffin tin with nonstick spray. You’ll have some extra batter though, so you can spray a second pan (3 or 4 cups) with nonstick spray, or make a few mini muffins instead.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, sugar, applesauce, eggs and bananas. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and carefully stir with a rubber spatula until all is just about combined. Carefully stir in 1 cup blueberries.
- Use an ice cream scoop or ⅓ cup measuring cup to portion the batter into the muffin cups. Sprinkle the tops of the batter with the remaining blueberries.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool for a bit, and then eat!
Recipe Tips:
- Try adding another fruit in place of the blueberries. Try raspberries, chopped apple or even chunks of banana!
- It’s okay to use all purpose flour for the whole recipe instead of part whole wheat flour.
What I Love About This Recipe:
- I love a healthy muffin for breakfast!
- It’s easy to change out the fruit to make different kinds of muffins.
- I have fun memories of my son creating this one!
Favorite Muffin Recipes:
Healthy Banana Blueberry Muffins
Ingredients
- ¾ cup low fat buttermilk (I used nonfat milk + 2 teaspoons lemon juice)
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- ¼ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup mashed ripe banana (about 3 medium)
- 1¼ cups white whole wheat flour
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1¼ cups blueberries (I use fresh)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400℉. Spray a 12 cup muffin tin with nonstick spray. You'll have some extra batter though, so you can spray a second pan (3 or 4 cups) with nonstick spray, or make a few mini muffins instead.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, sugar, applesauce, eggs and bananas. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nutmeg. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and carefully stir with a rubber spatula until all is just about combined. Carefully stir in 1 cup blueberries.
- Use an ice cream scoop or ⅓ cup measuring cup to portion the batter into the muffin cups. Sprinkle the tops of the batter with the remaining blueberries.
- Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool for a bit, and then eat!
Notes
- These freeze well too!
Nutrition
This recipe comes from RecipeBoy.com
You need to make more of these- Dad ate the last one this morning! They were so good- the applesauce totally worked great instead of using any oil! So proud of your commitment to eating healthy!
Great photos. These look delicious!
Awesome looking muffins! And that first photo is great. 🙂
I think it’s really cool that you’re so into cooking and baking. Keep it up!
P.S. I love Nutella, artichokes, cantaloupe, sushi, and FOOD too!
They look great Brooks. Blueberries are my very favorite fruit. So I will have to try these ones for sure. The berries you used look so huge. Happy New Year to you also.
Looks at those domed tops! Amazing. I don’t think I’ve ever made such an impressive looking muffin and those pictures are awesome!
Recipe Boy Rules. That is all.
They look delicious! Gotta love those gorgeous, juicy berries. Thank you for sharing a healthy muffin recipe with such gorgeous results!
Happy New Year to you too. Nice post. Eat healthy. Stay healthy!
I was looking for ahealthy recipe for blueberry muffins to freeze and take out one each morning. This is perfect! I am on WW so love to have the points value! I think I might put a little oatmeal in also! Thanks! You are very inspirational!!
A healthy muffin?! Count me in! Thanks for the recipe!
Wow! Looks delish! Thanks so much for posting!
Wait. A kid wrote this recipe & blog post?? Wow. Recipe Boy Rocks. My family LOVED the muffins today. Seriously, my finicky 4 year-old ate almost the entire batch! Thank you so much.
Delicious! Made them today and they are so good. Will make them again. I love blueberries. Thanks for the recipe.
These turned out great! Soft and flavorful…ps I have never had blueberry muffins with nutmeg, but wow, does it ever add a nice taste 😀
These look delicious! I can’t wait to try them!
Excellent recipe, these were delicious! 🙂
My family couldn’t get enough of these muffins. I also added 2T ground flax seed. Nobody would guess they are healthy:)
My five year old and I loved these out of the oven and I don’t even like blueberries that much! 🙂 She ate two! I put a link up to this page on my Instagram. 🙂
I didn’t have applesauce so I replaced it with extra banana, not realizing there was no oil. The muffins stuck so bad to the paper liners. Whoops! They still taste yummy–next time hopefully I will have applesauce on hand!
I made these today and they are phenomenal. Really. We are making a shift to only real food ( zero or no preservatives and additives, whole foods as much as possible) These muffins taste so clean tasting and delicious. Thank you for sharing this recipe with us!!! I cooked an apple on the microwave because I didn’t have applesauce and the sub worked perfectly fine.