Three Ways To Make Healthy Oat Banana Muffins

Oat cakes/muffins are my new found love. Yummy, filling and healthy, you definitely can’t go wrong with this gem. The best part about it, is it being – sugar-free, oil-free or butter-free, while it is not a bad thing, I already have enough of it in my diet so it feels good to create recipes with no oil or butter.

Ingredients

• 2 cups of oats flour
• 3 medium-sized banana
• 1/2 cup of milk
• 2 egg
• 2 teaspoon of baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon (optional)
• 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg (optional)
• 1 tablespoon of honey (optional, from Ajimi)
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract (optional)

Additional for the peanut

• Peanut (groundnut) Butter
• Dried fruits

Additional for The Chocolate Recipe

• 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon of brownie
• Chocolate chips

Classic Banana Oatmeal Cake

•Grind the oat flour, mix with other dry ingredients and keep. I typically just use the oats, baking powder and soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.

•I find that blending the egg, banana, and milk(or water when I don’t want to use milk) saves time than mixing.

•Once I have wet and dry ingredients ready, I mix and leave for 5 minutes before serving them in the baking cups.

•I preheat the oven and bake at 180°c for 45 minutes (I use a small oven so check if this setting is suitable for you).

Crunchy, Peanut and Banana Oatmeal Muffins

•This is almost the same as the classic oat cake/muffins, I just add peanut butter to the wet ingredients, then add raisins while mixing the dry and wet.

•After serving, I sprinkle groundnut (peanuts) on them before baking.

Chocolate and Banana Oatmeal Muffins

Chocolate oat cake using the recipe

The difference between this and the classic oat muffins are

• I add cocoa powder to my dry ingredients and the brownie while mixing. However, I have skipped adding brownie and decided to stick with just cocoa powder.

•I sprinkle the chocolate chips on the served batter. I couldn’t find chocolate chips, so I cut up some chocolate bars into chips.

Extra – Classic Oatmeal Cake with dried fruits and shredded coconut and mango smoothie