This Almond Flour Banana Muffin recipe will be your new favourite healthy muffin recipe! Delicious, gluten-free and made with simple ingredients, these muffins have the best of both worlds with almond flour and nutritious oats! A perfect muffin for breakfast or snack too because they pack extra nutrition from the banana, Greek yogurt and eggs. A moist and easy to make almond flour muffin!
Let's get together and eat almond flour banana muffins right meow, k?
If you're just getting started with gluten-free eating and baking, then you're gonna want to make these muffins.
Why?
Because this gluten free muffin recipe is perfect way to get to "know" almond flour when you enter into the wide-wide world of gluten-free baking. You've gotta meet it! Almond flour doesn't behave like regular wheat flour but that's okay😄
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These banana and oat muffins with almond flour are still moist, have a great mouthfeel and texture (thanks chopped walnuts!) and are super delicious and healthy.
This was inspired by my recipe for Almond Flour Blackberry Muffins so check those out too.
And if you love healthy and easy gluten free muffin recipes, then be sure to bookmark these Healthy Chocolate Muffins with Greek Yogurt (Gluten Free), Healthy Cranberry Oatmeal Muffins and Healthy Gluten Free Apple Muffins with Cinnamon.
📝Ingredients
Here's what you'll need to make these almond flour banana muffins:
- Almond flour - this is simply blanched, ground almonds. I like to buy mine from the Bulk Barn. Bob's Red Mill also offers a super fine almond flour.
- Gluten-free rolled oats - gives structure, mouthfeel and major nutrition
- Baking powder - helps the muffins to rise up a bit
- Salt
- Mashed, overripe bananas - because these muffins have no oil, these mashed bananas not only provide potassium, fibre and magnesium, they bring some natural sweetness and structure to the muffin
- Eggs - for structure and help a bit with rising
- Greek yogurt (unsweetened) - you know I'm gonna jam-pack as much nutrition as possible into muffins and high-protein Greek yogurt will do that😄
- Maple syrup - for a little hint of sweetness
- Vanilla extract
- Chopped walnut pieces - the little crunchy texture that the walnuts gives is just perfection
See recipe card for quantities.
🥣Instructions
These almond flour banana muffins are simple to make.
Here's the overview of steps but see the recipe card below for detailed instructions
Combine the almond flour, oats, baking powder and salt into one bowl.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the mashed bananas, eggs, Greek yogurt, maple syrup, and vanilla.
Combine the wet and dry ingredients into 1 bowl. Stir until just combined. Add chopped walnut pieces and give a final stir.
Divide between muffin cups and bake in the oven at 350 degrees F for ~25 minutes.
Hint: I have found that almond flour muffins REALLY stick to paper muffin cup liners so recommend using silicone baking cup liners when baking with almond flour.
Or, even better?
Grab one of these silicone baking trays and bake the muffins in there - let them cool completely before taking out!
🔪Equipment
For this recipe you'll need a 12-cup muffin tin, a couple mixing bowls, measuring cups, measuring spoons, a whisk or large spoon, and a cooling rack.
🥡Storage and freezing
These almond flour banana muffins are fine on the counter for 2-3 days in an air-tight container but after that, keep them in the fridge. They'll last longer - up to 4 days.
And they freeze beautifully - just pop them into an air-tight container and into the freezer. You can freeze them for up to 3 months. Just thaw out overnight or a few hours on the counter and warm gently if you want, in the microwave.
✅Trick for baking with almond flour
If your almond flour is lumpy or not "fine", you can sift it to get a better consistency. Using a fine mesh sifter, sift the almond flour into a large bowl.
Push through any large chunks. Then from that bowl of sifted almond flour, spoon into the measuring cup what you need for this recipe.
I've made these muffins with "finely ground" and "regular ground" almond flour and the results have been the same (ie, delicious😋).
Be sure to only spoon the almond flour into the measuring cup!
Hope you love these banana almond flour muffins like we do❣️
~April
📖 Recipe
Almond Flour Banana Muffins with Oats
Equipment
- 12 cup muffin tin
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup almond flour
- ¾ cup gluten-free oats
- 1.5 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup mashed, overripe bananas mash with a fork
- ⅓ cup Greek yogurt
- 2 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 12-tin muffin pan with silicone muffin cups.
- Combine the almond flour, oats, baking powder, salt in a large bowl with a wire whisk or spoon.
- In another separate medium bowl, add the eggs, mashed bananas, Greek yogurt, maple syrup and vanilla. Combine well by whisking it all up with a wire whisk.
- Add the wet ingredients to the bowl with the dry ingredients. Stir to combine well with a spatula. Don't over-mix but stir just until the muffin batter is fully combined and no dry spots are there. Then stir in walnuts.
- Divide muffin batter between 10 muffin tins. Bake at 350 degrees F for 23-25 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Jeanette Tranberg says
This cake turned into a disaster. Too moist ...
I replaced the brown sugar with coconut sugar and vanilla. Added a little more almond flour, cause I saw it wood be too moist. The taste was great 🙂
Nooooo...so sorry it didn't turn out Jeanette. I tested the recipe so many times. How long did you bake it? Glad the taste was good and coconut sugar is a great sub. I will try it.
Kenna says
I am confused, what recipe are you referring to? I am on the page for almond banana oat muffins and it does not call for sugar at all...
Hey Kenna - thanks for commenting. Another reader had used coconut sugar instead of the maple syrup in this recipe.
Best,
April
KRIS says
This is an excellent recipe, very tasty.
I don't see any nutritional information and am looking for calorie count per muffin.
thank you
Thanks for commenting, Kris. Glad you like them too! I just did the calculation: they are 151 calories per muffin 🙂
Best,
April
Julie says
Hi I made the Almond Flour Banana Muffin’s I add some Chia Seed’s and some no sugar Dark Chocolate chip to the mixer. They turned out great. We enjoyed them very much. Thank you.
Hey Julie - thanks so much for commenting. Glad to hear you liked the muffins! Mmmm, love the additions of chia seeds and those dark chocolate chips😋
Cheers,
~April
Rachel says
These are delicious! I didn't have any Greek yogurt so added cottage cheese instead, I also added 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips along with the nuts. I wasn't sure how they would turn out but they are so good and moist!
Ooooh, yummy! Great idea to use the cottage cheese. I'm going to have to try it. Glad you liked the muffins 🙂
Dar says
Can't wait to try these!! Besides cal. Count, would you please share the nutritional.info.? Thank you!
Yay! Hope you love them like we do, Dar. No prob! Here's the nutritional info (approx.)
Serving: 1muffin | Calories: 144kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 112mg | Potassium: 98mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 5g
Best,
April
Loreal says
Hi could I use steel cut oats in this you think? Just wondering since I have them on hand. Thanks!
Hey Loreal! I wouldn't recommend using steel cut oats as they just won't hold the structure of the muffin like the rolled oats will. If you try the muffins with rolled oats, let me know what you think😄
~April
Crystal P says
These muffins are my new obsession. I've been having these as my meal prep breakfast DAILY. They are so simple to make and absolutely delicious. Sometimes I add raisins or sugar free chocolate chips for an extra punch of flavor, but they're really delicious as is per the recipe. Thank you so much for this! 😃💝
Hey Crystal! Thanks for commenting and so glad you're lovin' them too! Addition of raisins or sugar free chocolate chips both sound yummy😋
Cheers,
April