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These blender muffins are so easy to whiz up, and come out perfectly fluffy with no flour! They’re a perfect make-ahead healthy breakfast or snack.
Looking for a healthy breakfast or snack recipe? Look no further than these blender muffins! Yes, these muffins are actually good for you: not a glorified cupcake! They’re made of all rolled oats, banana and maple syrup: no all purpose flour or refined sugar at all.
Spread with a little all natural peanut butter or almond butter, and you’ve got a filling snack that’s basically like eating oatmeal and a banana! I love these banana blender muffins so much (and so do my readers) that I’ve got a bunch of flavor variations, too.
5 Star Reader Review
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “You won’t believe how many wheat free muffin recipes I’ve tried, all pointless, tasteless, bland and disappointing! Yours, however, is spongy, moist, full of flavor and delicious. Thank you so much!” -Sharon
Why You’ll Love These Blender Muffins
Why make blender muffins instead of stirring together batter in a bowl? Well, number 1, it’s just more fun! For some reason, it feels easier to make muffins in a blender: maybe because all the mess is contained in one spot? Or you don’t have to dirty 2 bowls and spoons? Whatever the case, all you have to do is dump all the ingredients together in the blender and whiz it up.
Another great thing about these blender muffins is that they don’t require flour: just rolled oats! Blending up rolled oats within the batter essentially makes them into oat flour on the spot. You’ll find that oat flour is used in lots of gluten free recipes, but usually it requires other flours to help make it light and fluffy (since oats are quite dense).
But really: the real reason you’ll love these blender muffins (we hope) is the flavor! After trying these muffins out for us before we published this recipe, recipe tester Lisa said, “The blender muffins were great and super easy to make. The entire family enjoyed the recipe — it’s a winner!”
The Best Blender for the Job
While you can use any blender to make these muffins, we will say: make sure you have a good one! Full disclosure: I tried making these at my best friend’s house with a very sub-par blender. They still came out, but it took much longer than I expected! A high quality blender is nice for this recipe.
I have a high speed blender (we use this Vitamix blender), and it works wonders for these blender muffins. They whiz up in seconds! But of course, any type of blender will do.
How to Make Muffins in a Blender
The method is almost too easy to write down; jump to the recipe card below for quantities, but here are the basic steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a muffin tin with cups.
- Add everything to the blender—bananas, oats, eggs, oil, maple syrup, vanilla, leaveners, and spices.
- Blend on high for a minute or two, until the batter is completely smooth.
- Divide among the cups and sprinkle the tops with oats.
- Bake until a toothpick comes out clean, then cool a few minutes before serving.
Variations To Try
This version of our best blender muffins is banana: it has a forward banana flavor and is scented lightly with cinnamon and allspice. Basically, it tastes like banana bread in muffin form! After publishing this recipe, it’s become quite popular with readers so we’ve made bunch of different flavor variations that riff on the theme! Here are some of our blender muffin variations:
- Banana Blueberry Muffins: Similar to the base recipe, but add fresh blueberries for a tangy kick!
- Healthy Carrot Cake Muffins: One of my favorites, with carrots!
- Healthy Chocolate Muffins: A new reader favorite.
- Healthy Zucchini Muffins: These muffins use shredded zucchini and apple instead of the banana flavor.
- Healthy Banana Bread: Uses the blender muffin concept to make a quick bread.
- Applesauce Muffins These come out fluffy and perfectly cozy spiced.
- Banana Oatmeal Pancakes: Uses the blender muffin concept to make breakfast!
Dietary Notes
This recipe is vegetarian and gluten-free. For vegan, plant-based and dairy free, substitute flax eggs for the eggs.
Best Blender Muffins
These blender muffins are so easy to whiz up and come out fluffy with no flour! They’re a fantastic make-ahead healthy breakfast or snack. For other blender muffin flavors, see Healthy Blueberry Muffins and Apple Zucchini Muffins.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Total Time: 45 minutes
- Yield: 10 muffins 1x
- Category: Breakfast
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Ingredients
- 3 large very ripe bananas (1 ½ cups mashed)
- 2 large eggs
- 2 cups rolled oats, plus more for topping
- ¼ cup neutral oil (sunflower, vegetable or grapeseed)**
- ¼ cup pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon allspice (optional)
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350F.
- Place all ingredients in a blender, breaking the bananas into pieces as you add them. Blend everything on high for a minute or two until a smooth batter forms.
- Place 9 to 10 muffin cups into a muffin tin and pour the batter divided evenly between the cups; the amount of muffins will depend on the size of the bananas and type of oats. Sprinkle the tops with extra oats and gently press them down.
- Bake for about 25 to 35 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from the muffin tin and allow them to cool a few minutes before serving. Store refrigerated or frozen.
it is so good
You won’t believe how many wheat free muffin recipes I’ve tried, all pointless, tasteless, bland and disappointing! Yours, however, is spongy, moist, full of flavour and delicious 😋. Thank you so much. I’m going to try lots more flavours and lots more of your recipes too. 🙂
So glad you enjoyed!
Just found your website when looking for a healthy blueberry muffin recipe. I found your healthy blueberry blender muffins. They are so delicious! Thank you! I will be trying others as well!