Vegan banana berry muffins
Vegan banana berry muffins
These wholefood, plant-based vegan muffins are almost too good to be true. We can’t get enough of these banana- and berry-flavoured treats
Servings
12 muffins
Prep time
Cook time
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh Medjool dates, pitted & chopped
- ½ cup hot water
- 3 large very ripe bananas, mashed
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- ½ cup apple purée
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
- 2½ cups rolled oats, blitzed to flour in blender or oat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 × 125g punnet fresh blueberries
- 1 × 125g punnet raspberries
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Place greased baking paper into each hole of 12-hole muffin tin.
- Combine half chopped dates and ½ cup hot water in small bowl. Stand for 10 mins to soften dates.
- Place mashed bananas, soaked dates with soaking water, maple syrup, apple purée and vanilla essence into blender and blend until smooth. Set aside.
- In large mixing bowl, place oat flour, baking powder, bicarb, cinnamon and remaining chopped dates. Mix well, then add banana mixture and mix well with a fork. Pour into prepared muffin tin.
- Mix berries and distribute evenly into each of the muffins, pushing into muffin batter.
- Bake for about 30 mins. Remove from oven and muffin tin and place on cake rack to cool.
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