Banana Business - Healthy Banana Muffins

Hello my lovelies, 

A quick apology for the lack of posts recently, so far I have spent my half term driving to and from places and bing-watching Gossip Girl, but now the weekend is over I've got lots of posts planned.

Today I've been baking something so delicious and incredibly low in fat that it makes me want to leap with joy (yes, they're that good)

Here are my healthy and scrummy banana and chocolate chip muffins. As I have already said, these are very low in fat and the beauty of them is you can alter the recipe to make it as healthy as you like. I opted for 1/3 plain flour, 2/3 wholemeal as I think adding a bit of plain gives the muffins abit more flavour. I also threw in a handful of plain and milk chocolate chips, but feel free to add either one or the other, or go all out and have white chocolate instead (equally yummy but I do often find this rather sickly). Another alternative is blueberries which is equally delicious. 

Similar recipes that I have seen have stated their muffins were under 200 calories. I have no clue about these but I'd assume that these are in fact under 200 as well, therefore perfect for pre/post workout snacks, everyday snacks and delicious puddings when warmed up and covered in cream or ice cream. I bet that made your mouth water just a little.

Ingredients:

- three bananas ~ as ripe as you can get

- one egg

- a quater cup of honey

- a half cup of Greek yoghurt (this is in place of butter)

- one tablespoon of vanilla extract/ essence

- one tablespoon of melted coconut oil (olive oil will work too)

- one tablespoon almond milk (dairy milk or any other alternatives will work)

- one cup of wholemeal flour

- a half cup of plain flour

- a teaspoon of baking soda

- chocolate chips (as many as you like, blueberries work great with this aswell)

Method:

- Mix together the bananas, egg, honey, yoghurt, vanilla, coconut oil and milk for a minute or until smooth and evenly combined. 

- Add the flour and baking soda and mix slowly until combined before folding in the chocolate chips/ blueberries. 

- Then spoon the mixture into twelve. I used cupcake cases but if you have a nonstick muffin tray that would be perfect. Alternatively you could use baking parchment/ paper to make your muffins a lot edgier and more photogenic than mine.

- Pop these in to the oven at 180 celcius for 20-25 minutes. Your kitchen will smell incredible as these beauties bake, I couldn't wait to take them out. Cool on a cooling rack for at least five minutes before indulging yourself.

Enjoy! 

Lots of Lurveee from my bananary bliss,

Maddy xx