These Almond Flour Banana Muffins are healthy, protein-rich, and gluten-free, with a dairy-free option. Made with wholesome ingredients and no refined flour or oil, they’re soft yet sturdy, and packed with crunchy walnuts and melty chocolate chips.
Looking for more almond flour muffin recipes? Try my almond flour carrot muffins or the almond flour chocolate muffins next.
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✅ Recipe Name: Almond Flour Banana Muffins Recipe
🕒 Ready In: ~40 minutes
👪 Serves: 6 muffins
🧑🍳 Main Ingredients: almond flour, banana, egg, nut butter, brown sugar
📖 Dietary Info: High protein, healthy, gluten-free with dairy-free option
📌 Difficulty: Just mix and bake
Why you’ll love these almond flour banana muffins?
I wanted to create a healthy banana muffin that’s soft, incredibly tender, and full of real banana flavor — all while being made with wholesome, good-for-you ingredients. These muffins get a double dose of almonds from both almond flour and almond butter, which gives them richness and structure without any added oil. The only fat comes from the naturally healthy fats in the almonds. While they’re not ultra-light and fluffy like traditional muffins, they’re perfectly moist, sturdy, and absolutely delicious.
- maria doss
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Add-ins / Variations
- Nuts – Replace walnuts with toasted and chopped pecans or sliced almonds.
- Chocolate chips – Stir in bitter sweet or milk chocolate chips or semi sweet chocolate chips as in banana and chocolate chip muffins recipe.
- Use almond butter, peanut butter or sun butter.
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Almond Flour Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons almond flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup mashed ripe banana about one large
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons almond butter or peanut butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup chopped walnuts plus more for topping
- 2 tablespoons semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Prep. Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C) and line a standard muffin pan with 6 paper liners.
- Mix dry ingredients. Add the 1 ¼ cups + 2 tablespoons almond flour, ½ teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon cinnamon and ¼ teaspoon salt into a medium bowl and whisk to combine.
- Mix wet ingredients. Into another larger bowl, add the ½ cup mashed banana, 1 egg, ¼ cup packed brown sugar, 2 tablespoons nut butter and ½ teaspoon vanilla, whisk until smooth. 👉 Mash one large banana, then measure to make sure you have ½ cup. If you’re a little short, add a bit more; if there’s extra, just remove some. Bananas vary in size, so measuring helps keep the texture just right.
- Finish batter. Add the combined dry ingredients, chopped walnuts and chocolate chips. Mix well to combine.
- Bake. Divide the batter into the prepared muffin pan, sprinkle some chopped walnuts and chocolate chips on top and bake for 23 to 26 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a muffin comes clean. Place the pan on a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information, based on third-party calculations, should be seen as estimates, not guarantees, as various factors like product types, brands, processing methods, and more can alter the nutritional content in recipes.
Tips for Sucess
- Mash one large banana, then measure to make sure you have ½ cup. If you’re a little short, add a bit more; if there’s extra, just remove some. Bananas vary in size, so measuring helps keep the texture just right.
- Storage: This almond flour banana muffin recipe makes a small batch of 6, so you will not have any leftovers. If you have any, then can be stored in a covered container at room temperature, for about 1 to 2 days. I recommend freezing them, if stored longer than that.
How to make?
You can find full printable recipe below, but here is a quick overview of the procedure along with step-by-step photos.
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🍌 As I recommend for all recipes using ripe bananas, like my mini banana muffins or air fryer banana muffins , it is crucial to use very ripe, heavily speckled bananas for intense caramelly, rum like flavor.
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Kylie
So good!! Thank you