🥜🍫 Flourless Peanut Butter Muffins are made in a blender and come together in minutes. Soft, fluffy, and studded with chocolate chips, you’d never guess they’re gluten-free, dairy-free, refined sugar-free, and oil-free!
Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Muffins
Over the years, I’ve tried my hand at making flourless peanut butter cookies, peanut butter and chocolate flourless brownies, and flourless peanut butter chocolate chip blender cake. However, I dragged my feet on making flourless peanut butter muffins, worried they would turn out like chocolate peanut butter fudge. Boy, was I wrong!
One of the most popular muffin recipes on my site, this recipe is:
- Springy and bouncy, supremely moist, and full of rich, nutty, chocolatey flavors.
- Perfect for peanut butter lovers, these muffins are gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, dairy-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free, and clock in under 100 calories each.
- SO easy to prepare and ready in about 17 seconds with the flip of a switch, thanks to the blender.
- Leftovers keep well in the refrigerator or freezer, meaning these muffins are great for meal prep.
Amazing every time I make them!
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Ingredients You’ll Need
For these peanut butter chocolate chip muffins, you’ll need:
- Banana: This helps add lightness, fluffiness, and natural sweetness since there are only 3 tablespoons of 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 them
- Egg: I haven’t tested this recipe with an egg substitute, and I can’t guarantee the results if you do
- Creamy peanut butter: I personally recommend using peanut butter from a brand like Jif or Skippy. Natural peanut butter or homemade peanut butter will make the batter too runny. But if you have a peanut allergy, you may be able to use sun butter or almond butter. Just note that both are much thinner and runnier than peanut butter, and I don’t know if either will work
- Honey: This replaces the need for white sugar and adds moisture to the muffins. Honey will also work
- Vanilla extract
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Mini chocolate chips: I used mini chocolate chips because the size is perfectly proportionate for the mini muffins. You could substitute peanut butter chips or chopped peanuts if you prefer a stronger peanut butter flavor
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Peanut Butter Muffins in a Blender
- Blend all the ingredients except the chocolate chips in a blender until smooth and creamy. If you don’t have a blender, you can also whisk mashed banana with the wet ingredients and dry ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- Fold the chocolate chips into the batter by hand. Don’t use the blender, or it will pulverize them!
- Portion the batter in mini muffin pans greased with oil or lined with muffin liners, filling the muffin cups 3/4 of the way full. I like to sprinkle extra chocolate chips over the top of each muffin for extra chocolatey goodness.
- Bake just until the tops are set, domed, and springy to the touch. A toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean or with just a few moist crumbs. The exact baking time will vary. So, keep an eye on your oven, and adjust as needed!
- Cool the muffins in the pan on a cooling rack, and enjoy them as a breakfast, snack, or dessert!
Can I Make These as Regular-Sized Muffins?
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. I’d love to know how it goes if you give it a try!
Flourless Mini Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins
Equipment
- 2 Mini Muffin Pan
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
- ÂĽ teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- heaping 1/2 cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- 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.
- 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.
- Add chocolate chips and stir in by hand; don’t use the blender because it will pulverize them.
- 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.
- 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.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I just made these, but I added 1/2 cup blended whole oats, and used sugarfree chips, and I did not not have any muffin pans, so I sprayed a bread pan and baked it at 350 degrees for 30 min, I also used chunky peanut butter, it came out really good.
Glad your variation worked out great! I have also baked this in a round 9-inch cake pan with good results.
I just made these but I tripled every thing by 3 ,, I just could not get them done in the middle ,, what did I do wrong ? one place it says to add 3TBS. peanut butter , another place it calls for 1/2 cup , that is what I did .. help
Follow the recipe EXACTLY AS WRITTEN in the recipe box/recipe card section of the post and do not deviate or use information you have read other than in the actual recipe card.
Has anyone tried adding 1/4 applesauce and 1 cup oatmeal? Just wondering if it worked because I would like it to be a little more substantial. Otherwise for me it would be just an add on for breakfast. Yeah I could see it as a healthy snack otherwise.
I think you could add the applesauce and oatmeal but you never know until you try. Good luck experimenting!
Are those amounts right for the vanilla and baking soda? It seems backwards of what I would expect. A tablespoon is a lot of vanilla extract…
Yes they are correct. You can reduce the amount of vanilla if you prefer.
I agree. Â Next time I will cut vanilla in half. Â Maybe it’s because I used pure vanilla, but I could taste the alcohol from the vanilla in the finished product. Â
Brands of vanilla vary widely, some are much more alcohol-ey tasting than others. And as always, when adding things like vanilla or salt to a recipe, always add to your personal tastes.
peanut butter mini muffins—ummmmmm
Tried this with Trader Joe’s pb and it turned out great! I used olive oil spray, no flour, and it was just fine. Thanks for the easy, well-explained recipe!
Thanks for trying the recipe and glad it worked out great for you with TJ’s PB and olive oil!
HI Averie
For your peanut butter mini chocolate muffin, is there a youtube video that I can watch?
Thanks
It’s embedded within the blog post.
I want to try these, look delicious. Do you think it’s possible to substitute applesauce for the egg?
I don’t think so because I think it will make the batter too loose and without the egg, there’s nothing to bind it together.
How much baking soda did you use? Â I couldn’t find that in the recipe
It’s right in the recipe card section, underneath vanilla and above salt; 1/4 tsp
Made them tonight. They were very good. But it’s too bad one has to use flour oil or grease and flour in the pan because then there is flour on the bottom. Not good for those who avoid flour.
You could probably just grease or spray the pan with cooking spray and you will be fine. Glad you enjoyed them!
These look delish but do you have any other recipes this easy but with no peanut butter ? I’m allergic to nuts pregnant and now I really want to make these in one step???
Yes I have lots from breakfasts to desserts to mains. Go to the BROWSE RECIPES tab at the top of my page and everything is visually laid out. None of my recipes are fussy, labor-intensive endeavors.
My muffins came out delicious and were perfectly baked, not over or underdone, but stuck to the pan even though I followed directions and greased and floured the pan. Has anyone used muffin liners successfully, or would the muffins stick to the paper?
I haven’t used liners and fear they could stick to the liners. I use Pam for Baking (with flour) and go NUTS with spraying my pans. And I linked to the pans I have in recipe section. I haven’t ever had anyone say they stick since PB is pretty oily. Maybe try that spray and/or new pans. Glad the muffins tasted great!
Um, the recipe in this article the amts for vanilla or baking soda were omitted. Can we get the FULL recipe? Thanks!
The full recipe IS listed. Scroll down and enjoy!
I defrosted a frozen banana and I used chunky almond butter (made from a machine at the grocery store that blends almonds). I blended everything in my Vitamix and the muffins were amazing! Terrific recipe.
Glad the defrosted banana worked well and everything came out great with the almond butter, too!
And can I use a frozen banana (saved for banana bread)? Thanks. Can’t wait to try this!
Haven’t ever tried. Good luck.
And do you spray the muffin pan or use liners?