My kids love to help make this one, and I add sprinkles to the top, so they love eating them, too. My 2 year old even calls them cake.
We make this recipe more often than almost any other recipe. It is adapted from a recipe from my favorite baking site, Sally’s Baking Addiction.
This is a great way to use up older bananas and is healthy to boot (especially if you add in the optional flaxseed). I get my kids excited to eat them by adding chocolate chips and throwing a few sprinkles on top.
Here are some of my favorite baking items used in this recipe: Multiple Size Ice Cream Scoop Set, Fun Confetti Muffin Pan, Set of 2 Carbon Steel Mini Muffin Pans, Cupcake Liners, Clear Storage Container Set
Healthy Banana Muffins Your Kids Love:
Ingredients:
- 1.5 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp nutmeg
- ⅛ cup flax seeds (optional)
- 3-4 ripe bananas
- ⅔ brown sugar
- 6 tbsp coconut oil or butter (melted)
- 1 egg (room temperature)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract (or a splash more)
- 1 cup chocolate chips (optional)
- Sprinkles (optional)
Step-by-step video (shown above):
This is a great recipe to let your kids help with. It’s likely to get a bit messy anyway, and a little mess is a small tradeoff for building up life skills at an early age. Pro tip: to quickly get your egg to room temperature, place the egg in some hot water while you mix your other ingredients.
Recipe:
- Heat oven to 400 F and prepare muffin pans (muffin papers or grease pans with oil or butter).
- Peel and mash your ripe bananas (I used a potato masher).
- Stir in brown sugar and other wet ingredients (oil, egg, vanilla). Mix well to make sure any sugar clumps are dissolved.
- In a separate bowl, combine all dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, flaxseeds). Stir well.
- Add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir until combined into a thick batter.
- Stir in chocolate chips or any other desired extras (nuts, sprinkles, etc.)
- Evenly distribute muffin batter across muffin pans. Makes 12 mini and 12 regular muffins, or 12 somewhat larger muffins (My kids like a mix of big and littles).
- If you’re making a mix of 12 mini and 12 regular muffins, place the mini muffins up top and place larger muffins in the middle of the oven. Bake at 400 F for 5 mins, then without opening the oven, turn it down to 350 F and continue baking – (mini muffins: remove after 5-7 additional minutes) and (regular muffins: remove after 15-18 additional mins).
