This date-sweetened, gluten-free muffin recipe is easy to make and super healthy. It’s also incredibly delicious! I serve it to the boys for breakfast with scrambled eggs, or as an after school snack. I love gluten-free baked goods made with healthy flours such as almond, coconut, or flax meal. I’m especially fond of treats that are sweetened with fruit, rather than honey or maple syrup. The great thing about using fruit as a sweetener is that it comes with fiber, which slows down the absorption of sugars.
Enjoy these fruit sweetened muffins made from coconut flour!
Banana Walnut Muffins
Ingredients
- 3 large eggs
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 2 medium bananas
- 3 dates (remove pits)
- 10 drops stevia
- ¼ cup coconut flour
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup walnuts, toasted and chopped
Instructions
- Place eggs, oil, bananas, dates and stevia in a vitamix; blend on medium speed until combined
- Add in coconut flour, salt and baking soda and blend until smooth
- Fold in walnuts
- Scoop ¼ cup batter into a paper lined muffin pan
- Bake at 350°F for 20-25 minutes (my batch took exactly 23 minutes; all ovens are slightly different)
- Cool and serve
Equipment
These muffins will come out just as well when made without the walnuts. Then, you’ve got a great gluten-free, nut-free breakfast recipe! Lately loads of readers have been letting me know that they have nut allergies. If you can’t eat nuts, check out my Nut-Free Recipes page!
Here are some other nut-free Paleo muffin recipes:
Pamela Finch says
These are delicious every time. Love them!
Pamela Finch says
Also, I let the ripe bananas be the only sweetener. They are plenty sweet in my opinion without adding anything else. Even my teenagers agree.
Pamela Finch says
Oh yeah, AND the dates :)
staci says
When you have coconut oil in a measure do you add it in its solid form and add it to the mixture or melt it then measure it and add it?
I am new to cooking with it expecially in baking.
maria says
At room temp (in my home)it is in a semi-liquid state. When dry-measured and added to the liquid the coolness of the eggs causes it to “harden-up” which when mixed and baked melts-in nicely. Hope this helps.
Dana Leo says
This recipe was great! I didn’t have dates so I used raisins…next time I will add vanilla and cinnamon too! Thanks Elena!
Laura says
can you add almond flour into this recipe? if so how much? thanks looking forward to making these! :)
Karyn says
These were fanfastic!!! I made one batch with 2 tablespoons of dark chocolate chips and one plain- both were excellent! I omitted stevia in both and added 1 tablespoon coconut sugar instead. Fabulous! Smelled awesome as kids came home from school :) they are a perfect moist texture.
Sunny says
I just made these for the first time. I followed the recipe exactly except added 1/2 tsp cinnamon. Delicious, perfect little muffins! I don’t have a Vitamix (too expensive in Norway) so I just used my hand blender. I used Amanprana organic gluten-free coconut flour. Thanks Elana!
Judith says
These are absolutely my new favorite thing. I added a splash of vanilla extract and I need to bake them longer in my oven to get the middles cooked. Delicious every time, and no health fallout! I put butter on mine. :-)
Karen says
Made these tonight without the stevia and used 4 dates which i soaked in a little bit of warm water. after soaking i added the date water as well. very good!!!!!! thanks for sharing!!!
Karen says
i made these tonight and didn’t use any stevia as some of the others mentioned. even without it, they were still very sweet. i used 4 dates which i soaked in a little warm water and used the date water as well. delicious except now i have to share with my husband. :) thanks so much for the recipe!
Monique says
Can we sub honey for stevia and will it require additional coconut flour ? Thx