Secretly Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
Who doesn’t like chocolate, peanut butter, bananas, or Nutella? These simple, delicious muffins combine all three in a perfect harmony of flavors. These Secretly Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Butter Banana Muffins are a wonderful snack for young children, a delicious breakfast bread, an easy quick bread, or a simple after-dinner dessert. Sweet and delicious enough to be a delectable dessert. But shh!!! They're actually healthy.
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3 Tbsp peanut butter
- 3 Tbsp Nutella (optional - omit for an even healthier recipe)
- 2 cups mashed bananas (very ripe works best — I keep very ripe bananas in the freezer and just pull them out to thaw before beginning the recipe)
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C). Grease (or line) a 12-muffin pan.
- Mix together the eggs, brown sugar, applesauce, vanilla, peanut butter, and Nutella in a medium-sized bowl. Add mashed bananas.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder.
- Mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Do not overstir; just mix until the dry mixture is incorporated.
- Pour the muffin batter into the muffin pan, filling each muffin well up to almost the top. Bake for 15 minutes or until the muffins test done. (When you insert a toothpick into the center of a muffin, it should come out with crumbs or only slightly dirty. I like to underbake my muffins slightly so that they are extra moist. Muffins baked this way will not store well past the second day...but the muffins in this recipe don’t usually escape getting scarfed down in the first few hours anyway.)