Using miniature chocolate chips for this recipe allows the great, sweet flavor of chocolate to spread into all of the nooks and crannies along the tops of these delicious and healthy muffins..
HONEY-SWEETENED LOW FAT BANANA CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS
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1 1/4 cups mashed ripe banana
2/3 cup honey
2 Tbsp. nonfat yogurt
2 Tbsp. unsweetened applesauce
2 large egg whites
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup whole grain oat flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 12 cup muffin pan with cooking spray.
2. Mix first 6 ingredients (wet) together in a medium bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining dry ingredients (except for chocolate chips); add dry ingredients to wet and mix just until blended together (don’t over-mix).
4. Pour batter into prepared muffin tins. Sprinkle top of each batter cup with the mini chocolate chips. Bake 15 to 18 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes in pan and then remove muffins to a rack to cool completely.
Yield: 12 muffins
Nutritional Information (per muffin):
Calories: 164
Total fat: 2.2g (sat 1g)
Cholesterol: 0g
Sodium: 214mg
Carbohydrates: 35.7g
Fiber: 2.4g
Sugars: 21.3g
Protein: 3.2g
WW POINTS: 3
Cooking Tips:
*If you don’t have whole grain oat flour, just put regular oats into a blender or food processor and process until it becomes very fine… then you’ll have oat flour 
8 Comments
This looks like a great recipe – I love honey, and especially using it as a replacement for sugar. I bet they’d be great with maple, too. Thanks so much for sharing!
Great photo, too
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Lori these look great!! My husband will devour these. Thanks for sharing. Glad to see your 10 in 10 is going so well. Keep it up, girl!
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Oh wow… These look amazing!!
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Wow – these look delicious! I just stumbled across your blog and will be following along for sure…
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I can’t believe they’re low fat and sugarfree! They look too good!
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Wow what a beautiful muffin!! looks deliciouuuus
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I’m so excited to make these, but I have a question first. Do you use plain or flavored yogurt?
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Lori Lange Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:44 PM
Plain, or vanilla would be fine too
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I made these muffins earlier today. I used agave instead of honey and added a pinch of cloves… they were excellent! Thanks for the recipe!
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