One-bowl recipe. Oil-free. Refined Sugar-free, Vegan. And damn delicious! These muffins are lightly sweetened with maple, packed with applesauce, banana and walnuts, and super easy to make.
These are the ideal breakfast muffins. They are not dessert-for-breakfast muffins, but actual proper, not all that sweet, packed with healthy stuff, muffins. There’s no need to start your day with a boatload of sugar like so many muffins contain, especially when bought from the a store. American muffins are basically cupcakes without the frosting. Nothing to see here folks, just an entire country with a sugar addiction.
These don’t need a lot of sugar because they are naturally sweetened with the super ripe banana and applesauce. Fruits are an excellent sweetener! They’re especially nice when you want a lighter sweetness and are not trying to put yourself into a sugar coma (not to say they’re aren’t moments where that is needed too!).
| Prep Time | 10 minutes |
| Cook Time | 12 minutes |
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- 3/4 cup applesauce
- 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana (approx 1 banana)
- 3 tablespoons aquafaba
- 1/4 cup maple syrup
- 1/4 cup unsweetened soy milk (or other non-dairy milk - unsweetened)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
Ingredients
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- Preheat oven to 375F. Lightly grease a 12 cup muffin tin or line with paper muffin liners.
- In a large bowl, combine and mix together the applesauce, banana, aquafaba, maple syrup, soymilk, and vanilla.
- Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Stir until well combined but don't overmix.
- Fold in 1/2 cup of the walnuts.
- Divide batter between 12 muffin tins. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup walnuts over the tops of each muffin.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let cool completely and enjoy!
- Use unsweetened natural applesauce. The ONLY ingredient should be apples.
- Aquafaba is the brine/liquid from a can of beans, like chickpeas or canneloni or butter beans. Use it straight as it is from the can. You can also use the cooking liquid from homemade beans. Please see www.aquafaba.com for more information.
I have some ripe bananas and a sh*t load of aquafaba. Gotta make these!
Ahahaha! Yes, you should ;-). I think you will like them – not too sweet.
I want to make these today but don’t have any bananas, can I just up the apple sauce or use a flax egg?
I think the applesauce would work. I wouldn’t use flax seed eggs in place of the bananas – its a rather large amount. I haven’t tried using all applesauce and no banana so I can’t promise it will work or what the outcome will be. Let me know if you try it, I’d love to hear!