HEALTHY BANANA DARK CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

I’ve been

working on this recipe for Healthy Banana Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins for a very long time. I make a lot of muffins and quick breads and have a lot of tricks to making healthy baked goods taste good, but for some reason I just couldn’t nail it with the banana muffins. They always ended up dry and lacking flavor, and no one in my family wanted to eat them.

I wanted a muffin that was healthy, but didn’t really taste healthy. I wanted whole grains and no refined sugars, yet I wanted it to still be moist and sweet. Was that so much to ask?!

I finally hit the sweet spot with all of the ingredients and it’s a little weird how excited I am about it. But let’s just put it this way – the entire batch of muffins (that’s 12 muffins!) was gone in 36 hours. So don’t mind me – I’ll just be hoarding ripe bananas from now on so I can make these muffins any chance I get!

Ingredients

3 large ripe bananas

1 large egg

1/4 cup coconut oil

1/4 cup honey

1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups white whole wheat flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup dark chocolate chips

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 12 cavity muffin pan with cooking spray.

In a large bowl, mash the bananas.

Add the egg, coconut oil, honey, Greek yogurt, and vanilla and mix well to combine.

Add white whole wheat flour, baking soda, and salt, stirring with a spatula until just combined.

fold in the chocolate chips.

Divide batter evenly between the 12 muffins, each muffin cavity should be about 2/3 of the way full.

Bake in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes, until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean.

Cool and enjoy!