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Oatmeal Peanut Butter Banana Muffins with Dark Chocolate Drizzle

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Back in my teenage years in Montreal, my best friend and I would often go to a Friday afternoon fitness class together (there may have been a boy involved – I’m not sure I remember).  Following our workout, we would promptly dash to a local muffin stand and devour a giant ooey-gooey banana-chocolate chip mess (talk about eating our profits).

I haven’t had a muffin from a commercial establishment in many, many years, but I still love the combination of flavours.  This version also contains peanut butter and is a tad healthier than the ones we use to eat.  I like to think that it’s every bit as good!

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Banana Muffins with Dark Chocolate Drizzle
  • 1 egg

  • 1/3 cup turbinado sugar

  • 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

  • 1/4 cup olive oil

  • 1/2 cup all natural peanut butter (ie: without sugar), smooth or crunchy

  • 3 ripe bananas, mashed

  • 1 cup whole grain oatmeal

  • 1 cup whole wheat flour

  • 1 tsp baking soda

  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 50 grams of 75% cocoa chocolate (about 4 large squares)
  • handful of peanuts for topping

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Preheat oven to 400 F.

Beat egg, sugar, vanilla and olive oil together in a large bowl.  Add peanut butter and banana and beat until combined.

In a separate bowl,  mix oatmeal, flour, baking soda and baking powder.

Add dry ingredients to wet, mixing just until combined.

Divide batter among 12 oiled muffin cups.  Bake for 16-18 minutes, or until golden and firm to the touch.

Allow muffins to cool completely on a rack.

Meanwhile, heat chocolate in a sturdy pot on stove over lowest heat.  Stir to facilitate melting, then set aside to cool.  Once muffins and chocolate have cooled, take a spoon and drizzle chocolate over muffins freestyle.  Or, place chocolate, once cooled, in a small plastic bag and snip the corner – gently squeeze to apply chocolate.  There are certainly more precise ways of applying chocolate, but I’ll leave that to the cake makers.

Enjoy.

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This post is dedicated to Lynn –

Photo by Trinity Nutrition

Comments

  1. Thanks so much for letting me know Shauna! I’m so glad they turned out well and great tip for making them school friendly.

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  2. I finally made these! I added 1/4 cup wheat germ (I was on auto pilot making my regular recipe) and changed the peanut butter to a soy butter product so they would be school friendly. They turned out great!

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  4. @4evaRisa thanks for dropping in! you could substitute virtually anything in place of the peanut. I often make raspberry/banana or blueberry banana. If you like the idea of protein in muffins (which I do), you could use an extra soft tofu that you mash up with a potato masher (I promise your son will never know), or a protein rich plain yogurt such as Greek. Hope that gives you some ideas.

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  6. Kelly…I have been searching high and low for the perfect banana chocolate chip muffin. But adding oatmeal and peanut butter, I believe, is what makes this the PERFECT muffin! Bookmarking this for the not too distant future!!!

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  7. these look really good. Wish they weren’t made with PB though – I am always looking for muffins with banana for my son – he is allergic to nuts. I would love a batch for me though.

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  29. @SallyBR love it! and on that topic, my husband use to coerce me into evening runs (I like to exercise in the morning and I am not a runner per se) – anyhow, the deal was, if I agreed to run with him, we could then go to the pub for an ale… hilarious.

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  32. @Sissi at least cigarettes boost metabolism! (ok, bad joke). Turbinado? who knows, I just like the name. Kidding again – sugar is the current darling in the nutrition world (you know how things cycle in at out of fashion). Turbinado is one of many minimally refined sugars (sometimes referred to as ‘raw sugar’) which means it retains more nutrients (trace amounts of minerals specifically), and also has unique taste and cooking properties, compared to regular table sugar. Demerara, well known in the UK, is similar to turbinado.

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  41. i love pb, chocolate, banana together! fabulous combination! :D hahaha and all went “somewhere” b/c a certain someone was there. HAHAHA. ahh the memories of youth~

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  43. I’d take a homemade muffin over a storebought one any day! And you’re right…this combination of flavors just can’t be beat!

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  51. Love muffins – and my wife makes awesome, healthy muffins with bananas too, and I think yoghurt and honey. And best of all about the dark-chocolate? It’s like you’re not eating chocolate because it’s almost healthy! Great looking muffins Kelly :) Very “pro” looking!

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  59. Hi Kelly,
    Love the story! Brings us down memory lane for sure. I am always looking for new banana muffin combinations. It seems I always have very ripe bananas lying around. I love making muffins and can’t wait to try this one. As for the boy, let me refresh your memory, it was the very fit instructor – Santo!
    Your teenage best friend

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  60. Growing up we used to spend summers on Martha’s Vineyard and there was this muffing store called Mrs. Miller’s Muffins that had the best banana chocolate chip muffins I’ve ever had…this recipe totally brought back memories of the summer mornings when my dad would bring back some of the muffins before I woke up in the morning. These, of course, are a much healthier version and I can’t wait to try them out!

    P.S. being able to eat giant ooey-gooey muffins is totally the point of working out ;)

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  63. I’m sure this muffin is as healthy as the list of the ingredients! I loves banana bread, then… banana muffin? Oh surely!!
    Tq for posting this recipe kelly! ;)

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  64. Very funny! When we were marathon training, we would eat the profits the day before, way way WAAAAY indulging more than we had to in the famous “carbo-loading” before a long run

    now, I am not sure I believe you “forgot” about the boy involved in the Friday fitness, but I’ll let that slide ;-)

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  65. I remember when giant muffins were just becoming so popular and thought of as “eating healthy” like 800 calories a muffin!! And I’d dive into one of those after my weight training workouts!! You really brought back memories with this post! As soon as I realized how “healthy” they were, never again did I purchase another muffin! I still like them, and healthy like you’ve done here…how can you go wrong with peanut butter,chocolate and bananas!?!

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  67. Isn’t there a boy involved in just about everything we did when we were younger?

    I think peanut butter and banana go together much better than peanut butter and chocolate. But, mix the three up and you have nirvana (at least my daughter thinks so). These are marvelous.

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  70. These muffins look luscious and really healthy! Your story reminds me of people who jog for an hour and then stop to have a cigarette ;-)
    What is turbinado sugar? It sounds very mysterious.

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  71. I love the combination of bananas and peanut butter. And isn’t a boy always involved. ;) Now it’s just the same boys…but they’re usually involved. LOL.

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