Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mini Blender Muffins

I put peanut butter, banana, and honey in the blender, and my daughter asked what kind of smoothie I was making.

None I said. I’m making muffins. What???

This goes down as the easiest and fastest batter I’ve ever made. Ready in about 17 seconds with the flip of a switch.

I’m a big fan of whisk-together batters, and nearly every blondie, brownie, bar, quickbread, muffin, and cake on my site is made with a whisk. I reserve my stand mixer for cookie dough, bread dough, and frosting.

But this batter is even easier than using a whisk.

Just combine one egg, banana, peanut butter, honey, vanilla, and baking soda in a blender and blend, before stirring in chocolate chips.

After a quick blend, here’s the batter.

Did you notice what’s missing in the ingredients list? Flour. Gluten.

The muffins are gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, dairy-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free, and they clock in at under 100 calories each based on SparkPeople’s calculator.

If you’re willing to give up the chocolate chips, you can shave off 35% of the calories.

But I like chocolate.

I have a few recipes for Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies, as well as other peanut butter cookies that are gluten-free or that don’t use white sugar, brown sugar, butter, salt, or oil. See the Related Recipes section below for many ideas.

I had never tried to pull of a flourless muffin until now, and I’m sold because these are some of the softest, moistest, and best little peanut butter muffins I’ve ever had.

For all the health claims that can be made about the muffins, the best part is that they taste every bit as good as muffins made with flour, gluten, and lots of added sugar.

Because there’s no flour, I was a bit worried that they may turn out like peanut butter fudge, since there was no flour to fluff them up and provide the normal amount of cakiness found in a muffin, but I was wrong.

The egg, pinch of baking soda, and banana did the trick to give them the springiness and bounciness you want in a muffin. When I was stacking them, the muffins on the bottom were like little trampolines, ready to absorb the weight and bounced back.

Bananas are versatile workhorses in baking, and the banana here helps to add lightness, fluffiness, and natural sweetness since there’s only 3 tablespoons honey used to sweeten the entire recipe.

And for those who don’t like bananas, you’re very safe here and you can hardly taste it. My husband couldn’t taste it until I had him guess what was in the muffins.

He answered, ‘peanut butter and chocolate’. Hello Captain Obvious. Only after I told him there was a banana included did he say, “Okay, I can barely taste it now”, paralleling my sentiments.

My daughter did detect the banana, but I have a feeling that’s because she had a hawkeye on the ingredients as they went into the blender.

I used storebought peanut butter and always recommend baking with something like Jif or Skippy because natural and Homemade Peanut Butter tends to be thinner, runnier, and can separate. If you try natural PB, I don’t know what the results will be.

The same can be said for almond butter. It’s much thinner and runnier than peanut butter, and I don’t know if it will work.

I used mini chocolate chips because the size is perfectly proportionate for the mini muffins. Make sure to stir in the chips by hand at the end, rather than add them with other ingredients. You don’t want pulverized chips.

One trick to make your muffins really shine is to sprinkle a few extra chips on the top of each muffin before baking for a nice visual pop.

I baked the muffins in my mini muffin pans and they only took 8 1/2 minutes to bake. I made 17 mini muffins, and filled the cavities to a solid 3/4 full. Don’t be surprised if they’re nicely domed in the oven, but fall a bit as they cool.

I haven’t tested the recipe as full size muffins. You’ll probably yield about 8 or 9 and I’d start watching the clock closely at about 13 minutes and go from there, but I haven’t tried, and am purely guessing.

Part of the appeal of this recipe is the mini size. Mini food is just so pop-able. Just ask my husband who popped down 4 in 60 seconds.

Warm and fresh from the oven, these little guys were incredibly good. Soft and a little squishy, supremely moist, and tons of bold peanut butter flavor, complemented by melty chocolate chips.

You may want to just double the recipe and make a double batch from the get go. Muffins freeze beautifully and you can keep a stash in the freezer to toss into lunches or for an easy snack when your peanut butter and chocolate cravings hit.

At under 100 calories, have a few.

Also be sure to check out Flourless Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Mini Blender Muffins (GF) – No refined sugar, flour, oil & only 75 calories! They taste amazing!

Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mini Blender Muffins

Yield: about 17 mini muffins

Total Time:15 minutes

Prep Time:2 minutes

Cook Time:8 to 9 minutes

The fastest and easiest batter I’ve ever made. Combine all ingredients (except the chocolate chips) and blend until smooth. The muffins are gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, dairy-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free, and they’re under 100 calories each (66 calories if you omit chocolate chips). For all the health claims you could make about these muffins, the best part is that they taste every bit as good as muffins made with flour, gluten, and lots of added sugar. The peanut butter flavor is pronounced and bold, while the banana disappears almost entirely. I used mini chocolate chips because they’re size-appropriate for the mini muffins.

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Ingredients:

1 medium ripe banana, peeled
1 large egg
heaping 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter (I recommend using classic storebought peanut butter, and not natural or homemade)
3 tablespoons honey (agave or maple syrup may be substituted)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
pinch salt, optional and to taste
heaping 1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400F. Prepare mini muffin pans by spraying very well with floured cooking spray, or grease and flour the pans; set aside. If keeping gluten-free for health reasons, simply use cooking spray or grease the pan.
2. To the canister of a blender, add first 7 ingredients, through optional salt, and blend on high speed until smoothy and creamy, about 1 minute.
3. Add chocolate chips and stir in by hand; don’t use the blender because it will pulverize them.
4. Using a tablespoon or small cookie scoop that’s been sprayed with cooking spray (helps batter slide off spoon or scoop easily), form rounded 1 tablespoon mounds and place mounds into prepared pans. Each cavity should be filled to a solid 3/4 full.
5. Bake for 8 to 9 minutes, or until the tops are set, domed, springy to the touch, and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no batter.  Due to their small size and oven variance, make sure to watch your muffins closely, and bake until done. Allow muffins to cool in pans for about 10 minutes, or until they’ve firmed up and are cool enough to handle. Muffins are best fresh, but will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 5 days, or in the freezer for up to 4 months.

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