Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

These 100% whole wheat banana chocolate chip muffins are unquestionably the best you’ll have! They are moist and sweet, despite having no added refined sugar, other than chocolate chips. All in all, these muffins are perfectly suitable for the whole family to enjoy as a dessert, a light breakfast, or a nutritious snack. Indeed, this recipe utilizes nutritious ingredients to make a truly mouthwatering muffin.

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Why You’ll Love These Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

• You can undoubtedly enjoy these muffins completely guilt free, knowing that they are made with whole wheat, and do not require any refined sugar.
• Although they are perfectly suitable to enjoy at breakfast time, or for a snack, they can also pass for a delicious and sweet dessert.
• These muffins are incredibly easy to make – a beginner friendly recipe!
• Great snack for toddlers! (I recommend avoiding adding the chocolate chips for children under 1 year old)
• You can opt to add any type of nuts instead of chocolate chips to your batter for an even healthier muffin.

Tips for Making Moist and Soft Muffins

A few things to keep in mind during your baking process that will help to ensure an enjoyable finished product:

• Do not overmix your batter
• Use very ripe bananas – the darker and softer the better.
• Be sure to use fresh whole wheat flour. If you are home milling your flour, be sure to mill it just before mixing it in.
• If you are home milling your flour, be sure to mill it very fine.

Why Whole Wheat Flour

In addition to adding a hearty flavour to your baked goods, whole wheat also has many nutritional benefits. Whole wheat flour contains higher protein, fibre and naturally occurring vitamins and minerals than store bought processed and enriched all purpose flour. Research has shown that consumption of whole wheat flour has many health benefits, and history has shown that the switch to conventional “white” flour has impacted health in negative ways. For these reasons, incorporating whole wheat into our diet has been a personal goal of mine, and I hope you decide to do that same. I had been considering purchasing a grain mill, but knowing the investment I wanted to do some research first. Well, needless to say, this book completely convinced me!

I like to use hard red wheat berries in this recipe, but you can use any whole grain you prefer.

Home Milled Flour

Whole wheat flour, while available in stores and a much better option that conventional all purpose flour, is still not as healthy (or delicious) as home milled flour. Once milled, flour immediately begins to break down, so it doesn’t stay fresh for long. Store bought whole wheat flour may have additives in it to keep the product fresh for longer. For a completely pure source of flour, I recommend milling your own wheat berries at home! The grain mill that I use and love is the KomoMio Eco Plus.

With that being said, by all means organic all purpose or whole wheat flour purchased from a small community mill or even the grocery store will still create a healthier product than using all purpose flour. And even using all purpose flour will create a healthier product than a store bought muffin. So, do what you can! After all, every health conscious choice we make has an impact.

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients:

• 2 1/4 cup fresh milled flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon

Wet Ingredients:

• 3 overripe bananas
• 1/2 cup avocado or coconut oil
• 1/2 cup honey
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup of plain full fat yogurt
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 cup chocolate chips, divided

Baking Instructions for Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

1. Line a large 12 muffin tin with muffin liners.
2. Preheat your oven to 400F, with an oven rack in the centre position.
3. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients and whisk together.
4. With a fork, mash overripe bananas in a large mixing bowl.
5. Add egg to bananas and whisk until incorporated
6. Add avocado oil, or melted coconut oil, and stir.
7. Mix in yogurt, honey and vanilla.
8. Whisk all wet ingredients until emulsified, 1-2 minutes
9. Dump mixed dry ingredients into the large mixing bowl with the wet ingredients, and fold gently just until combined. Do not over mix.
10. Gently fold 1/2 cup of the chocolate chips into the batter, reserving 1/4 cup to sprinkle on top of the muffins.
11. Evenly portion muffin batter into prepared tin, each liner should be 3/4 full.
12. Sprinkle remaining 1/4 cup of reserved chocolate chips over muffins.
13. Bake at 400F for 20 minutes, until slightly golden brown and toothpick inserted in the centre of the muffin comes out clean.
14. Allow muffins to cool in muffin tin for 5-10 minutes, before transferring to a cooling rack to complete cooling.

How to Serve Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

These muffins make a great snack, breakfast or dessert and are delicious warm, room temperature, or even cold from the fridge – you really can’t go wrong. Personally, I love to sneak one right off of the cooling rack, but my daughter especially loves them the next day after they’ve been stored in the fridge!

Storing Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Muffins can be stored on the counter in an airtight container for up to a few days, or for up to a week in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

Instead, you can absolutely store these muffins in the freezer for up to three months. This is a great way to ensure you always have some on hand. Whenever you’d like to enjoy one, allow to defrost on the counter at room temperature, or microwave on auto-defrost according to weight.

Links to my Favourite Kitchen Tools for this Recipe

Mason Cash Mixing Bowl

My staple, easy to clean whisk

Organic Vietnamese Cinnamon

Organic, Fairtrade Chocolate Chips

KomoMio Eco Plus Grain Mill

Other Recipes that Use Whole Wheat Flour

If you enjoy recipes that incorporate whole wheat flour, check out this other blog post:

Best Ever Classic Cinnamon Buns with Cream Cheese Icing

Enjoy These 100% Whole Wheat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins!

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