These Healthy Banana Oat Muffins make a great grab-and-go breakfast & freeze well making them great for lunchboxes. Packed full of goodness, they are quick to make and taste delicious.
You might also like to try our loaf version - Banana and Blueberry Healthy Loaf.
Quick look at Healthy Banana Oat Muffins
- ⏲️ 30 mins
- 🛒 Ingredients: 10 simple ingredients.
- 🍽️ Makes: 12 muffins
- 🧑🍳 Difficulty: Simple, kid-friendly recipe.
- 🗃️ Make ahead: Keep for up to 3 days or freezes well.
These healthy muffins are a favourite in our house & there's always a stash in the freezer for quick breakfast or to pop into luchboxes.
We like to sometimes top with a few dark chocolate chips for a special treat.
Why Make These Healthy Banana Oat Muffins
- Wondering what to do with ripe bananas? They’re a great way to use them - no waste, just delicious muffins.
- Made with oats and fruit, they’re a healthy option you can feel good about feeding the family.
- Super easy to make – just mix, bake, and you’re done (no fancy steps - the kids can make these ones themselves).
- Perfect for lunchboxes, snacks, or a quick breakfast on busy mornings.
- Delicious - Soft, naturally sweet, and packed with juicy blueberries in every bite.
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Recipe Ingredients
To make these delicious blueberry banana oatmeal muffins you will need just a few simple ingredients:
- Flour - for super healthy, we go with wholemeal spelt flour but you can use regular spelt or just plain all purpose flour
- Rolled oats - also called old-fashioned oats. Don't use quick oats, they got a bit mushy.
- Sugar - The healthiest choice is rapadura sugar. You can use any type of sugar though - or pure maple syrup (if using maple syrup, mix it with the wet ingredients first not the dry).
- Mashed bananas - overripe bananas give the best results as they're deliciously sweet.
- Natural yoghurt (plain) - or use Greek yogurt
- Olive oil - or melted coconut oil or any other mild oil. Just no vegetable oil. I avoid those. You can also use melted butter
How To Make Healthy Banana Oat Muffins
Step 1 - In a large bowl add the flour, cinnamon, baking powder and bicarb soda (& sugar if you're using sugar).
Step 2 - Whisk together.
Step 3 - Fold in the rolled oats.
Step 4 - In another large bowl, mash the banana.
Step 5 - We just use a fork. If your kids don't do lumps then you can also give the banana a quick whiz in a blender or Thermomix.
Step 6 - Add the eggs, yoghurt and oil. If you're using maple syrup instead of honey, add that here too.
Step 7 - Give it a good mix with a fork.
Step 8 - Make a well in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients.
Step 9 - Fold it all together until there are no more dry bits. If you're adding extras like berries or chocolate, fold it through now.
Step 10 - Use oil to grease your muffin tin or alternatively line with cupcake holders.
Step 11 - Spoon the batter into the tin to fill about ⅔ of the way.
Step 12 - Bake at 180C for 20 minutes or until golden.
Step 13 - Remove to a wire rack to cool.
Step 14 - We like to serve them warm spread with butter.
Yes sweet things in moderation as always but a muffin for a quick breakfast on busy mornings?
Why not?
It’s full of good stuff if it’s made with whole ingredients and it tastes even better when you know it’s nourishing you.
It's perfect for the whole family.
Recipe FAQs
This depends how you're going to eat them.
Personally, I just throw them in a freezer bag or zip lock bag and into the freezer.
You can also individually wrap them in plastic wrap and freeze that way so they can be put straight in a lunch bag.
You sure can. Instead of using a regular muffin pan, make mini muffins by baking the muffin batter in a mini muffin tin.
They make the perfect little bites for snack time and are great for little fingers.
There are two general reasons your banana oatmeal muffins may be dry.
The first is that you overcooked them. It’s really important to check them close to the end of baking time with a cake tester.
The second is that you didn’t add enough wet ingredients.
Make sure you properly measure the olive oil and yoghurt and you’re not using a small egg.
We also like to serve our muffins lathered in butter.
If you're after a really quick healthy snack then try our Old Fashioned Jelly Lolly Recipe.
Recipe
Banana blueberry and oat muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups wholemeal spelt flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon bicarb soda
- 2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 cup rolled oats
- ½ cup rapadura sugar or maple syrup if using maple syrup, mix it with the wet ingredients first not the dry
- 2 bananas mashed
- 2 free-range eggs
- ¾ cup of full-fat organic natural yoghurt
- ¼ cup olive oil or melted coconut oil
- ⅓ cup fresh or frozen blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C fan-forced.
- Grease a 12-hole muffin tin (or line with muffin cases if you prefer).
- Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarb and cinnamon into a large bowl then add the oats and sugar and stir it all together.
- In another bowl, mash the bananas then whisk in the eggs, yoghurt and oil - it’s easiest to use a fork to do this.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and use a spatular to fold in the wet ingredients.
- Add the blueberries and fold them in.
- Divide the batter between the muffin tin holes.
- If you want to be fancy, sprinkle the top of each muffin with a few extra rolled oats.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle of one comes out clean.
- Leave them to sit in the tin for 5 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool - or devour them straight away with some butter. Just beware of the blueberries - they are super super hot straight out of the oven.
Merle Mosse says
Thank you for your email. Ur was good learning about your grandmother's recovery and the visit of your sister. Thank you for your advice about not being hard on oneself but, luckily, I also had a very special grandmother who told me, when I was a little girl, never to try to be perfect. She said that the pursuit of Perfection is the ultimate thief of time, energy, joy, confidence and gratitude. Wise words that have served me well over many years. Just enjoy your boys as they will too soon be grownup and will certainly not remember a mum who was perfect but one who had time for them and was fun! Happy mothering.
Claire says
Very very wise words Merle! Thank you x
Karen says
Although I travel for work and I'm only home on the weekends I may be able to make these and others recipes you've published.. As they are so easy!!!. And the best thing, I feel as though you are talking to me as if we are best friends... Thank you!
Claire says
Thanks so much Karen! They definitely are easy enough to sneak in on the weekend. I hope you at least get to travel to nice places when you work! x Claire