I have a healthy muffin recipe to share with you for honey sweetened Low Fat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins.
This healthier recipe for low fat banana chocolate chip muffins incorporates honey, nonfat yogurt, applesauce, egg whites and whole grain flours. Instead of chocolate chips being mixed into the batter, they are sprinkled on top. This gives you the pleasure of having a little bit of chocolate with your muffin (but not too much!)
Review from a RecipeGirl reader:
“Unbelievable! I made these muffins last night and had one for breakfast too. This recipe is the best muffin recipe I’ve ever made- low fat or not!!! I didn’t expect this muffin to turn out this good and it did not disappoint! This is my new replacement for my banana chocolate chip coffee cake I get at the coffee shop I go to which has 350+ calories. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your recipe has motivated me to find more low fat recipes that actually taste good! Thanks again & keep them coming!”
Ingredients needed:
- mashed ripe banana
- honey
- plain nonfat yogurt
- unsweetened applesauce
- egg whites
- vanilla extract
- whole wheat flour
- whole grain oat flour (or just regular oats)
- baking soda and salt
- ground cinnamon
- miniature chocolate chips
Note about the oat flour:
You may not wish to buy a big bag of oat flour for this recipe, but there’s an easy solution. You can just take regular oats and give them a whirl in the blender or food processor until they are finely ground (that turns them into oat flour!) Or you can simply use oats in place of the oat flour in these muffins, and that will work out just fine too.
How to make Low Fat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins:
The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.
These muffins have just 2 grams of fat per muffin. I’d say that’s pretty good considering that most muffin recipes are much like eating a piece of cake. There is no oil or butter in the recipe at all! This is a nice lower fat alternative for those who might be watching what they eat. And, if you happen to be following the Weight Watchers WW plan, you’ll find a link to the WW Points on the recipe card at the end of this post.
The recipe makes 12 muffins. They freeze well, so if you don’t trust your willpower then go ahead and wrap and freeze them individually. Or put them in an airtight container and take them out to defrost one at a time.
The texture of these muffins is just like any other good banana muffin recipe. They’re delicious. Enjoy!
Favorite Banana Muffin Recipes:
- Whole Grain Banana Muffins
- Peanut Butter Banana Muffins
- Bakery-Style Banana Nut Muffins
- Brown Sugar Banana Muffins
- Whole Wheat Banana Blueberry Muffins
Low Fat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Recipe Details
Ingredients
- 1¼ cups mashed ripe banana
- ⅔ cup honey
- 2 tablespoons plain nonfat yogurt
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened applesauce
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ¾ cup whole grain oat flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray 12 cup muffin pan with nonstick spray.
- Mix first 6 ingredients (wet) together in a medium bowl.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together remaining dry ingredients (except for chocolate chips). Add the dry ingredients to wet and mix just until blended together (don’t over-mix).
- Pour the batter into the prepared muffin tins. Sprinkle the 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.
Notes
- 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!
I made the muffins with the oat flour and a batch with oats. They were both delicious! I don’t have a preference for either – they are both great!
I haven’t tried these yet, but am planning to make them tomorrow. Just wondering if you could use regular oatmeal instead of oat flour. Have you tried that? I know I can grind the oatmeal to make flour but I think I would like to just try oatmeal. Why grind it and not just use regular oatmeal?
I haven’t tried making them with just oats, but let us know how they turn out!
Mmmm…just made these, they are to die for!! Yum, yum, and yummy some more!
Wonderful Recipe, Just made the muffins today and they were a huge hit with everyone, If I would have known I would have made more 🙂 I added walnuts to half the batch, yummy!
Any recipe suggestions for Honey Sweetened Blueberry muffins?
Haven’t tried blueberry yet!
These look delicious, thanks for sharing the recipe. I have to admit I’m even more excited about the tip, I would have went and bought oat flour to make the recipe. I never knew, hopefully I’ll remember now. Thanks again!
Unbelievable! I made these muffins last night and had one for breakfast this morning. This recipe is the best muffin recipe I’ve ever made- lowfat or not!!! I didn’t expect this muffin to turn out this good and it did not disappoint! This is my new replacement for my banana chocolate chip coffee cake I get at the coffee shop I go to which has 350+ calories. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your recipe has motivated me to find more lowfat recipes that actually taste good! Thanks again and keep them coming 🙂 Laurie
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!
I’m so excited to make these, but I have a question first. Do you use plain or flavored yogurt?
Plain, or vanilla would be fine too 🙂
Wow what a beautiful muffin!! looks deliciouuuus
Oh wow… These look amazing!!
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 🙂