Banana Blueberry Oat Muffins

Food Blogger Love is back! The event is hosted by Allison of The Pintertest Kitchen  and was created as a way for bloggers to show love to other bloggers. The event is a little different this year as us bloggers had the choice to either make a Valentine's Day related recipe or request to be assigned another person's blog and make a recipe from their blog, in their style of cooking, or made with their favorite food.

I chose to be assigned to a blogger and received Sarah of The Pajama Chef. Like me, Sarah blogs for fun and likes simple but delicious recipes. She's a wife, mom and fur-mom to her 3 kitties. She likes running, caramel lattes and staying in pajamas, hence the name of her blog. Her recipes balance between healthy and indulgent but absolutely won't leave you wandering the aisles of the grocery store for some hard to find ingredient that you'll use only a teaspoon of.

We've participated in a few events together, but I'm not sure that I've checked out her blog recently.

Right now Sarah is doing a really cool feature where she interviews other bloggers to see how they eat, asking questions like how many meals they make at home, who they're cooking for, how they meal plan, and what their best tips are for meal planning. I think this is SO COOL!

Let's face it, meal planning is hard, even if you're a food blogger. There needs to be some creativity, ingredients that your whole family will eat, recipes that don't take hours and hours of prep and things that actually look appealing.

I can't tell you how many times I've sat down in front of the computer, Pinterest open and just scrolled and scrolled and scrolled because nothing looked appealing. If I asked my husband he'd suggest pizza on Monday, tacos on Tuesday, breakfast on Wednesday, burgers on Thursday, pizza on Friday, tacos on Saturday...I think you get where I'm going with this. 😊

Anyway, it only took me a few minutes of scrolling through Sarah's recipes before I knew exactly what to make. I sometimes ask my coworkers for suggestions and this time was told "maybe something on the healthier side?"

I grinned. "Healthy" desserts? Those are my favorite to make because I love the flabbergasted look on someone's face when they tell me how good a dessert was and then I drop the "oh and it was healthy for you too" bomb.

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Banana Blueberry Oat Muffins

You'll be shocked at how healthy these Banana Blueberry Oat Muffins are, made with whole wheat flour, oats, Greek yogurt and fresh fruit.

Prep Time10 minutes mins

Cook Time22 minutes mins

Total Time32 minutes mins

Course: Muffins

Keyword: banana blueberry oat muffins, bananas, blueberrry, breakfast, muffins, oatmeal

Servings: 14 muffins

Calories:

Author: NicholeL

Ingredients

• 2 ripe bananas mashed
• 1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
• 1 cup old-fashioned oats
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup coconut oil melted
• ½ cup vanilla Greek yogurt
• ¼ cup honey
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 1 ½ cups blueberries fresh or frozen

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line two muffin pans with paper or foil liners.
• In a large bowl, combine the flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg.
• In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs, then add in the coconut oil, Greek yogurt, honey and vanilla. Stir in the mashed bananas.
• Add the wet ingredients into the dry, using a flexible spatula to fold ingredients together until no lumps of flour remain. Carefully fold in the blueberries as well.
• Fill each muffin cup ¾ of the way full.
• Bake for 20-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Transfer to a wire rack and let muffins cool completely.

Notes

Source: The Pajama Chef