Banana Peanut Butter Muffins are sweet, tender, and loaded with peanut butter, ripe banana, and gooey chocolate chips. No refined sugar, oil, or flour needed!
author’s note
The Banana Version Had to Happen
After seeing how much you all loved my Chocolate Peanut Butter Muffins, I knew I had to make a banana version. I have a lot of banana recipes on the site, from lighter options to full-on treats, but somehow I hadn’t paired bananas and peanut butter in muffin form yet. Safe to say I was missing out!
If you’re into bananas, peanut butter, oats, and chocolate chips, these are right up your alley. I really think you’re going to love them!
And yes, of course I still had to sneak some chocolate in these. If you want to keep these muffins totally refined sugar-free, there are so many good sugar-free chocolate chip options these days. Just swap those in here. Enjoy!
Ingredients In Banana Peanut Butter Muffins
| Ingredient | Let’s Chat About It |
|---|---|
| Bananas & honey | Use very ripe, spotty bananas for the best sweetness and flavor. |
| Peanut butter & vanilla | Use creamy peanut butter and stir well before measuring if using natural peanut butter. |
| Oats | Blend old-fashioned oats into a fine flour for the smoothest texture. Use certified gluten-free oats if needed. |
| Eggs, baking powder & salt | Make sure baking powder is fresh for a good rise. |
| Mini chocolate chips & regular chocolate chips | Mini chips spread chocolate throughout while larger chips create gooey pockets. |
How To Make Banana Peanut Butter Muffins
- Prep: Preheat oven, line muffin pan, and lightly coat with cooking spray.
- Blend: Blend oats until they resemble a fine flour and mash bananas until smooth.
- Mix: Beat wet ingredients until smooth, then add dry ingredients and mix again.
- Fill: Fold in chocolate chips and divide batter evenly among muffin cups.
- Bake: Bake until set, then cool briefly before transferring to a wire rack.
Quick Tip
A good muffin tin makes a world of difference. This one is my favorite and I’ve never had issues with the muffins sticking or releasing cleanly.
chelsea’s Notes
Top Tips For Success
The bananas make all the difference: Wait until your bananas are very dark and spotty all over. That’s when they’re at their sweetest! Then make sure to thoroughly mash them so you don’t end up with chunks in these Banana Peanut Butter Muffins. Here’s how I like to do it: add the bananas to a large bowl and beat with electric hand mixers until smooth and similar to a thick applesauce.
Use leftover overripe bananas in this Healthy Banana Cake Recipe!
Storage
Leftover Banana Peanut Butter Muffins
- Store muffins in an airtight container at room temp for 1-2 days, or in the fridge for up to 1 week.
- Freeze for up to 3 months. Thaw at room temp or warm in the microwave.
More Muffin Recipes:
Muffins And Quick Breads
Healthy Chocolate Chip Muffins
Desserts
Chocolate Muffin Recipe
Breakfast
Healthy Apple Muffins
Desserts
Applesauce Muffins
Banana Peanut Butter Muffins
Equipment
- Blender or food processor
Ingredients
- 1-1/4 cups old-fashioned oats see note 1
- 1 cup mashed banana 2-3 large very overripe bananas, see note 2
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips see note 3
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips dark, semi-sweet, or milk (whatever you like best!)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line an 12-cavity muffin pan with liners and lightly spray with cooking spray. Set aside.
- Add oats to a high-powered blender or food processor and blend until they resemble a fine flour. Set aside. In a large bowl, add the overripe bananas and beat with hand mixers until smooth and the consistency of thick applesauce. Measure out exactly 1 level cup and discard any extra.
- Add the mashed banana, peanut butter, honey, eggs, and vanilla to a large bowl. Beat with hand mixers until smooth. Add salt, baking powder, and blended oats. Beat again until smooth, scraping down the sides as needed. Add both chocolate chips and gently fold into the batter with a spatula.
- Divide batter evenly among the 12 muffin cavities, filling each nearly to the top. Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, or until the tops lightly spring back when touched and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
- Remove from the oven and let muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes. Carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
They were delicious, and I will definitely make again! The only issue I had was with the amount of batter. I had some left. I wasn’t sure how much, so I thought I’d better just do another tray. Turned out to be 4 muffins worth. I just topped off three instead of making 4. They turned out a good size. As for the other 8 I made though, they had plenty of room left to fill in their cups after they finished baking (1/4 – 1/3 of room left). I thought I had a standard size cookie scooper but maybe not. I used generous, overflowing scoops too. Are they supposed to be smaller muffins that don’t fill up their cups? Is it normal to have that much batter left over? Would I be better off using three scoops per muffin instead of two with this scooper?
I replaced the chocolate chips by dried cranberries. Honestly they were delicious ! One of the best muffins I ever had: super moist, not chewy and really tasty 😀
Yay!! I’m soo happy you enjoyed! Thanks Sarah! 🙂
I made these, perfectly delicious! Can you share the nutritional info.? Thanks!
These are delicious! How long do you cook them for your ‘undercooked’?
You can test with a toothpick — if it comes out with moist crumbs, they’re perfect! 🙂 Enjoy!
These are so yummy!
I’m just getting ready to make these again (it’s becoming a weekly tradition). I double the recipe as I usually have 3 bananas I need to use up and having slightly more than double the amount of banana has not been an issue. But the chocolate chips I double again cause I love chocolate. I also make mini muffins and they cook for about 10 minutes and come out perfect.
So a happy accident I discovered is that one night after I made a pizza and had turned the oven off (I have a large pizza stone on the bottom rack that I never take out) I put a couple muffins on a piece of parchment and put them on the pizza stone to warm them up. Well I kinda forgot about them til like 10 or 15 minutes later and the radiant heat was just enough to give the outer part of the muffins an awesome sweet,, chewy crust and the chocolate chips kinda pooled into the center of the muffin and they were incredible. After that, whenever I am finished cooking something in the oven and have turned it off, I throw a couple muffins in and they are just the best thing ever.
Eric, i’m so glad to hear this! Also this oven discovery is AMAZING! You’re a genius! Hope you continue to enjoy 🙂
Absolutely loved making this recipe!! I love even more that it’s FODMAP friendly 🙂 just wondering, is there a reason I can’t use muffin liners next time? It’s so much easier in terms of no washing up!!
So happy to hear that; thanks so much for the comment Chantelle! 🙂 Unfortunately these muffins tend to stick to the liners and don’t come off as well which is why I recommend not using them; if you have silicone muffin tins though those may work!
I had just seen this recipe and changed a few things. I changed the flour to GF flour and it was amazing!
So happy to hear you enjoyed these!
These are simply AMAZING. I just made a fresh batch of them. I substituted brown sugar for coconut sugar instead and added 2 big dollops of non fat-free Greek yogurt. So moist and airy… and AMAZING!
So happy to hear these were a hit! 🙂 Thanks for the comment Victor!
I made these last night…so good! You’d never believe there’s no oil or butter if you didn’t make them yourself! I used mini chocolate chips and baked them in mini muffin tins (cut bake time to 10-11 minutes). This recipe is going onto my “favorites” board…thanks!!!
I’m so thrilled this recipe made it on your favorites board 🙂 Thanks so much for trying these Tracy!
SO good. I also doubled the batch because they sounded so good and I’m so glad I did. Also only used 2 tablespoons of brown sugar for the doubled recipe. Love them!