Healthy chocolate banana muffins
These muffins are sinfully delicious yet healthy! My chocolate banana muffins are butter and refined sugar free, moist and decadent and you won't be able to stop at one
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ½ cup fine dark cocoa powder
- 3 overripe bananas
- ½ cup olive oil
- ½ cup maple syrup or honey/agave
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ cup hot water
- ¼ cup dark chocolate chips
- ¼ tsp salt
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda. Mix well
- Using a fork mash the bananas completely and then add in the eggs, oil, maple syrup and vanilla essence
- Whisk this mixture very well until well combined and light
- Now, gradually add the flour mixture and whisk again, until nothing looks dry
- Finally add the hot water and whisk again
- In a cup cake wrappers lined muffin tray* pour the chocolate banana cake batter (using a spoon or an ice cream scoop, if you have), until ¾ th full in each cup
- Tap a few times to remove any air bubbles. Drizzle the chocolate chips on top and bake in a preheated oven at 180° C for 30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cakes comes out clean
- Remove from oven and let it sit for 10 minutes before serving the yummy and healthy chocolate banana muffins, with tea,coffee and/or milk. Enjoy!
Notes
- *Make sure to add the same amount of cake batter in each of them
- I was able to make 12 medium sized muffins with these quantities
- You can increase/decrease the quantity of sweetener, as per taste
- I have used 70% dark chocolate chips for this recipe. But, you can use any that you have
- 1 cup = 250 grams
- tsp - teaspoon