Banana Nut Breakfast Muffin paleo style

Here are ways to use up over-ripe bananas:

• cut up and freeze for smoothies
• cut up into coins and dip into melted chocolate – freeze. Voila! Chocolate Banana Coins
• make Baked Banana Ricotta cups
• make traditional Banana bread
• make Banana Caramel Sauce to go with Paleo Banana Pancake or Buttermilk Pancakes or use it as ice cream topping
• bake a healthy breakfast muffin like Paleo Banana Nut Muffins

Here is my version based on the Paleo Banana Nut Muffins. There is no need for a mixer for this recipe.

Ingredients:

• ½ cup Coconut Flour
• ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
• ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
• ¼ teaspoon Pink Himalayan Sea Salt
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon freshly ground Nutmeg
• ½ teaspoon ground cloves
• 4 Large Eggs
• 2 ½  Large Bananas, Mashed
• ⅓ cup Maple Syrup
• 3 tablespoons Coconut Oil (liquid or semi-solid texture)
• ½ to 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
• Pecans halves to put on top, (or other nuts of your choice)

1. Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl.
3. On a separate bowl mash the bananas, add beaten eggs, coconut oil. Mix well so that the coconut oil clumps are smaller. Add the vanilla extract.
4. Mix the dry and wet ingredients. The batter will be more runny than a traditional muffin batter. Wait a few minutes as the coconut flour absorbs the liquids.
5. Use an ice cream scooper to put in silicon muffin cups.
6. Add the pecan halves on top.
7. Bake for 20 minutes. Cool.

I use silicone cups for these muffins as it makes it super easy to take the muffins out.

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Banana Oatmeal Snack Muffin

Here’s a healthier version of a snack muffin with a few options to make it gluten-free, egg-free, or dairy free also. It is very easy to make, kid-tested recipe, with no mixer required. Enjoy it warm, fresh from the oven, freeze it as a quick snack. It is a quick and easy addition to school lunch.

A perfect alternative breakfast on-the-go for kids and adults.

Wet ingredients

• 2 very ripe bananas, mashed
• 1/2 cup almond milk (Option: regular milk)
• 1/2 cup yogurt
  Options: Greek yogurt
  or 1/4 cup yogurt and 1 egg – Omega 3 preferred
  or 1/4 cup grated apple or unsweetened applesauce and 1 egg)
• 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, grated
• 1 tablespoons  unsulphured molasses (it adds great colour and added minerals)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Dry ingredients

• 1/2 cup rolled oats
• 2 cups oat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 cup brown sugar (option: maple syrup to eliminate processed sugar)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt (option: sea salt or Himalayan pink salt for added minerals)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 6 – 8 dried chopped dates – Option: to add more sweetness if desired.
  (Tip: coating the dates with the dry ingredients will ensure more even distribution of the dates)

Mix the wet ingredients together. Mix the dry ingredients together. Mix the dry to the mixed wet ingredients. Scoop onto silicon muffin cups using a regular ice cream scoop. Bake in 360 degree oven for 12 minutes or check with a cake tester.

Yields 18 muffins. Serve with sliced apples or pears.

Tip

• Use reusable silicon muffin cups for easy removal. The lack of additional oil in this recipe, may make using paper muffin liners difficult to remove.
• When checking for doneness using a cake tester, you might find bits of mashed banana on the cake tester. Make sure you test on another area.

To Make Oat Flour

Use a clean coffee grinder to mill small batches of oats into flour.