Skinny Apple Peanut Butter Mini Muffins
Lightened up peanut butter muffins loaded with peanut butter, banana, oatmeal and bits of Granny Smith apples. 71 calories a piece and all natural! :)
Calories:
Ingredients
- ¾ cup banana 1 ripe large banana mashed well, 105 calories
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter 750 calories
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave nectar 85 calories
- 1 teaspoon almond or vanilla extract 12 calories
- 1 large egg 74
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅓ cup oat flour 120 calories
- 1 packet of Quaker Oat Banana Nut Protein Oatmeal or 1/3 cup quick oats + 2 Tablespoons brown sugar 240 calories
- ½ cup Granny Smith Apple 40 calories, diced small
- 1435 divided by 20 mini muffins = 71 calories each
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray your mini muffin pan with nonstick spray.
- In a large bowl, using mixer, combine together the mashed banana, peanut butter, agave or honey, vanilla or almond extract and beat until combined.
- Add egg and beat into mixture.
- Beat in the salt, baking soda, oatmeal and oat flour. Do not over-mix or muffins will be become dense and lose flavor.
- Fold in the diced apples until just mixed.
- Using a small cookie scoop, scoop 1 full scoop of the muffin mixture into each muffin cavity. Add a sprinkling of oats on top if you want for decorative purposes.
- If you want larger muffins, this recipe will make 7-8 muffins.
- Bake mini muffins at 350 for 8-10 minutes. Larger muffins 11-13 minutes.
Notes
If you don't have oat flour, you can process your own oat flour, by taking oats and pulsing them in a blender/food processor until they are a flour like consistency. Be sure to measure the oat flour after pulsing or the amounts will be off.