Chocolate Chip Cookie Muffins by the dozen please and thank you! This recipe actually makes about 18 muffins but we won’t count the other six you are going to eat for breakfast tomorrow morning. Shhh. Your secrets are safe with us!
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Health Breakfast Muffins
Breakfast has been called the most important meal of the day and this old saying could not be more true. Eating healthy is a challenge but if you start your day with something nutritious, you are setting the rest of your day up for success. Once you have made that first, morning healthy choice, you are more likely to continue to make healthy choices throughout the day. Look it up, there have been so many studies that prove this!
In addition to encouraging healthy eating throughout the day, having a nutritious breakfast will just make you feel better. If you fill you stomach with hearty foods that provide long lasting energy, you won’t be hungry again in 5 minutes after breakfast is over and you crashing from a sugar high thanks to all that maple syrup on your pancakes. A healthy breakfast is so important.
One of the easiest ways to get a whole lot of nutrition into your breakfast is to pack it into a muffin. Muffins are extremely versatile and can be altered in many ways in order to make them have as many beneficial ingredients as you want. You can add flaxseeds into muffin recipes to get some extra fiber and antioxidants. You can toss in some oats into muffins to help improve your heart health. You can even add fruit into muffins getting all the nutritional benefits that various fruits have to offer. Muffins are fantastic. They are a powerhouse breakfast on the go. Healthy breakfast muffins are what you need in your life.
Kid Friendly Muffins
So what would happen if you just threw all the healthy muffin “mix-ins” into a batch of muffin batter and baked it? It would probably taste awful. I’m sure if you are a muffin person, you have gotten a bad muffin before. You likely saw a super healthy muffin in a coffee shop or bakery and thought it would be a perfect breakfast but then took one bite and regretted your decision. Well, this recipe will not lead you down that path again!
Whenever I make muffins (or any food for that matter), I always put taste as my number one priority. The main reason- my kids. Sure an adult can stomach a bad muffin in order to get the healthy benefits but there is no way a kid is going to eat anything “healthy” unless it also tastes good. I always, always consider how a food will taste as I make it and try my hardest to make it taste beyond delicious in order to ensure my kids eat what I am making. If they don’t eat it, why even make it?!
Chocolate Chip Muffins
There is one ingredient that I have learned will always get kids to eat their food. What is that magical ingredient? Why chocolate of course! Adding chocolate chips to anything almost guarantees that my kids are going to eat the food I give them. So when I was dreaming of a healthy muffin recipe, chocolate chips were a necessity. Besides, I love chocolate chips too! And waking up in the morning knowing that I have a delicious chocolate chip muffin waiting for me downstairs definitely helps me get out of bed.
Gluten Free Muffin Recipe
Now, to add one more twist to my recipe development, when I created this healthy chocolate chip muffin recipe, I was on a gluten free diet. While some may think that would make baked goods off limits, think again! Avoiding traditional white flour (aka gluten) actually opened up a whole new world of baking for me. Do you know how many gluten free flours there are out there?
- Almond flour
- Oat Flour
- Cashew Flour
- Cassava Flour
- Coconut Flour
- Tapioca flour
- Rice flour
- Bean flour
- Pea flour
The list goes on and on and on! It is really amazing.
The way each flour reacts in recipes is also quite fascinating. While some flour dry out baked goods, others really help keep foods moist. When creating the recipe for these gluten free chocolate chip muffins, I decided to use almond flour.
Gluten Free Muffins With Almond Flour
Almond flour is one of the most common flours used in baking. The flavor of the almonds goes nicely in most baked goods and it is subtle enough to not over power any other ingredients that you may want to feature. Almond flour is very easy to find in stores and is not outrageously expensive like some other gluten free flours. If you are feeling ambitious, you can even make your own almond flour! This video clip will show you how (it’s so easy!).
If you are not a big fan of almond flour or have a nut allergy, this recipe also works great with oat flour. Oat flour has practically no taste and is light and fluffy just like white wheat flour. Oats are also super nutritious, full of fiber and antioxidants, that will make your muffins nice and healthy. You can easily make oat flour as well by simply blending rolled oats in a food processor or coffee grinder until they are nice and powdery like flour!
Muffins Made With Bananas
My gluten free, healthy, delicious, chocolate chip muffin recipe was looking amazing. It had everything you could want in a breakfast (tasty, filling, good for you…) but one thing was missing- the fruit! I really wanted to be able to consider my muffins a serving of fruit (or at least a few bites of fruit!). Then, it came to me to skip the butter and oil that is usually in a muffin recipe and use bananas instead. It was perfect!
Bananas can actually be used as a replacement for butter or oil thanks to their texture and baking properties. When you add a banana to a baked good, it will act in much the same manner as a fat would but here is the best part- bananas barely have any fat. So now my muffin recipe would be low in fat, have fruit, have delicious banana flavor and also be dairy free. Could these get any better?
Blender Muffin Recipe
Yes. These muffins could get better. They will be even better if they are easy to make…that’s what you are thinking right? Well, guess what. They are easy to make! All you have to do is throw all of the ingredients into a blender, puree and then you’re ready to bake! No excess bowls, no messy clean up…just blend and bake. Seriously, you are going to be making this recipe all the time and loving it!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Muffins
When I finally made this recipe after planning it and contemplating ingredients for days, I was shocked. They were delicious! I knew they would be good but I couldn’t believe that they were this good. My three year old daughter took one bite and said “Mommy, are these chocolate chip cookies or chocolate chip muffins?”. Right then I knew how special this recipe was.
Now it is your turn to try the magical muffins and see for yourself. Breakfast can be very healthy, very easy and very delicious all at the same time! Oh, it can also be gluten free, dairy free, full of antioxidants, loaded with fiber, have fruit, have healthy nuts….it just goes on and on!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Muffins
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 17 mins
- Total Time: 22 mins
- Yield: Makes 18 Muffins 1x
- Category: Gluten Free + Vegetarian
Description
These muffins are gluten free and dairy free but still taste like you are eating a chocolate chip cookie rather than a healthy muffin!
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups almond flour (and/or oat flour)
- 2 bananas
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup honey (or agave)
- ¼ cup applesauce
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and prepare two muffin pans with non-stick spray
- Mix all of the ingredients (except the chocolate chips) in a high-speed blender until evenly combined
- Stir in the dark chocolate chips then evenly divide mixture into prepared muffin pans
- Baked for 15-17 minutes or until the edges are light golden brown
Notes
-Use one banana and one ripe avocado to add a veggie to your breakfast muffins
-Use half the amount of chocolate chips and then add 1/2 cup of chopped nuts (walnuts work great!)
-These muffins will keep at room temperature for about 3 days
-Store the muffins wrapped tightly in the fridge for up to one week
-Wrap the muffins well and then freeze for up to three months
-Pour the batter into a loaf pan and make healthy, gluten free chocolate chip bread- you will need to bake the loaf for about 45-50 minutes
Thanks for this great recipe! I just finished eating a couple from my first batch of these and I’m very happy with the results. I used half almond flour and half oat flour and it turned out very good! They aren’t very sweet, but just perfect for a healthy breakfast or snack rather than a dessert. Thanks! I i will be making these again!
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Glad you enjoyed! =)
I know this is an old post but these had to be commented on!
I used all almond flour and honey as the sweetener. These are amazing! The closest I have had to a wheat flour banana chocolate chip muffin.
That’s great to hear, glad you liked them 🙂
Thinking of making these for my 4 year old’s birthday, but one munchkin is allergic to eggs and we have many here who are gluten allergic, too. What would you recommend as a substitute for the eggs?
Hi! I’ve had great luck in the past using ground flax seed as an egg replacement in recipes. 1 tbs of ground flax mixed with 3 tbs water. Also, applesauce or bananas make a great replacement 🙂 Good luck!
These were delicious!!!!! This is my go to recipe now for muffins!