Eating In: Healthy GF Banana Oatmeal Muffins 3 Ways

Bananas are a staple in my house (well, my apartment). I am a creature of habit. I must have a banana every morning at work. I never eat them on the weekends, but if it is a work day, I eat a banana in the morning. I have a weak stomach in the morning. There is something about getting up early for work that makes my stomach a little queezy. Maybe I am allergic to work too!?

This past grocery trip, I couldn't find any green bananas! I usually get two yellow ones and three green ones, due to the fact that bananas go brown so quickly. Needless to say, my bananas turned brownish towards the end of the week. I decided to buy new bananas and save the brownish ones for baking. I started to make good ol trusty banana muffins using my gluten free conversion chart. Then, I got a little creative and separated my one big batch of muffins into three different batches. Below is the recipe I whipped up! It is going to be a yummy couple of weeks with these muffins as a morning snack at work!

Recipe Base:

3 ripe bananas (brown and mushy)

1 cup of brown rice flour

5 TBSP of potato starch

3 TBSP of tapioca starch

3/4 TSP of xantham gum

1 cup of oatmeal flour (I make mine in my bullet using Bob Mill gluten free oatmeal)

2 TSP baking powder

1 TSP baking soda

1/2 TSP salt

1/4 TSP cinnamon

1 egg beaten

1/2 cup of milk of choice (I use unsweetened coconut)

1/4 cup of applesauce (which I use as an oil replacement, you can use 1/3 oil)

1 packet of stevia (or 1/2 cup of sugar or honey)

Mix in ingredients:

1.) Banana Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins

• 1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips

2.) Banana Peanut Butter Muffins

• 1 heaping TBSP of peanut butter

3.) Trail Mix Muffins

• 1/4 cup of crushed almonds
• 1/4 cup of raisins
• 1/4 cup of shredded unsweetened coconut

Other mix in ideas: blueberries, protein powder, walnuts, pumpkin pie spice, strawberries, flax seed, etc. 

Instructions: 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Lightly grease muffin tin (I used cupcake liners).

Stir together all of your dry ingredients (flours, baking powders, spices and stevia). If you are making your own oatmeal flour, just pulse it in your blender for a few minutes until it turns into a flour. Set aside dry ingredients.

In a separate bowl, mash bananas until creamy. Mix wet ingredients (milk, applesauce, egg).

Combine wet and dry ingredients until well incorporated. 

Evenly separate recipe base into three bowls (depending on how many muffin types you are making). Once separated, add in "mix in ingredients" listed above.

Bake at 400 degrees for 13-15 minutes. Makes 18 muffins.