Banana walnut muffins, soft and fluffy muffins made with ripened bananas. These vegan muffins has a warm cinnamon flavors and loaded with crunchy walnuts.
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We are crazy for Bananas
We are ready for a banana muffin any day. I buy bananas every week, as i mentioned in my pumpkin apple banana muffins, my kids love to take muffins for their school snack box. And with a teen around, who is always hungry, a quick blend of banana with any other fruit makes a filling smoothie.
Apart from muffins, my family loves Banana honey walnut sandwich, i make them at least once a week. It is an in-house favorite and always a hit with my kids. It is most requested sandwich for the school lunch box. This Banana chocolate and cream cheese bite size sandwiches, makes a great after school snack.
Check this Banana peanut butter baked french toast , you just assemble things and let the oven do the job for you. A perfect holiday morning breakfast that makes your entire house smell festive.
There is a traditional offering made in Palani Murugan temple, Panchamritham. The main ingredient of the recipe are special bananas from a place Virupakshi, a village near Palani hills, where it is cultivated. The specialty of these banana are that they have a very less water content.
Have you tried this Banana crumble, a mildly sweet, delish crumble made with over ripened bananas and jaggery, you can substitute jaggery with brown sugar . If you love banana, you must definitely try this Banana halwa, Pazhamvaratti, a Kerala special. Both these desserts, can be made for a big crowd, a perfect dessert for Holiday parties.
Ingredients For Banana Walnut Muffins
- Whole wheat flour, for personal reasons i bake only with whole wheat flour. You can use All purpose flour instead of whole wheat flour.
- Leavener : This fluffy banana muffins uses both baking powder and baking soda
- Egg replacement : These soft and fluffy vegan muffins uses mashed banana puree as egg replacement.
- Flavors : I have used cinnamon powder, along with coffee in this delish muffins. You can use a combination of cinnamon, ginger and cardamom powder for festive magic.
- Sweetener : This delicious eggless muffin loaded with walnuts uses powdered jaggery. You can also use brown sugar or white sugar too.
- Fat : I have tried these muffins with butter/sunflower oil/coconut oil. You can use any flavorless oil.
- Flavors : i have used cinnamon along with coffee in this banana bake.
- Add-ons : I have added broken walnuts in this vegan banana walnut muffins. You can use your choice of nuts or use a combination of crunchy seeds like pumpkin seeds, or sunflower seeds.
How to Bake Eggless Banana Muffins
Please check recipe card below for exact measurements of each ingredient used and also for the detailed instructions
- Measure all the ingredients mentioned and keep it ready on the kitchen counter.
- In a bowl, take flour, baking powder and baking soda. Whisk well to combine. Add broken walnuts to this and keep aside.
- In another wide bowl, mash bananas, add jaggery to this. Mix well.
- To this next add oil, coffee mixed water and cinnamon powder. Whisk well to form a unform liquid.
- Let us now mix dry and wet ingredients. Slowly add ½ cup flour to the wet ingredients, using a whisk combine the flour into liquid.
- Preheat the oven to 160C, pour the batter into a lined muffin pan. Garnish the top with broken walnuts.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the muffins comes out clean.
- Take the cake out of the oven, let it sit in the pan for 5 minutes. Carefully remove the muffin from the pan to the wire rack. Let it cool down and enjoy.
- I usually leave the muffins on the counter for a day, then refrigerate in an air-tight container.
- If serving from the refrigerator, reheat the muffins for 10 -20 seconds in a microwave and serve warm.
Banana Walnut Muffins | Vegan Banana Muffins
Equipment
- Measuring cups and spoons
- Convection oven
- Weighing Scale for measuring ingredients
- Bowls for mixing the batter
Ingredients
- 175 grams whole wheat flour
- 275 grams banana 2 Philippines banana weighed with skin
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
- 90 grams jaggery powder ½ cup approximately
- 50 ml coconut oil/any vegetable oil ¼ cup, approximately
- 50 grams chopped walnuts ½ cup approximately
- 2 tablespoon coffee mixed in ½ cup water
Instructions
- Preheat the Oven to 160C . Line a 6-hole muffin pan with liners.
- In a bowl, take flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder powder. Whisk this all together.
- Add broken walnuts to this flour mix and whisk it together.
Wet Ingredients
- In another wide bowl, take jaggery powder and bananas. Mash it well to form a liquid.
- Add cinnamon powder and coffee mixed water to this wet ingredients, whisk well to form a uniform liquid.
Mix wet ingredients and dry ingredients
- Now add ½ cup of flour mix at a time, in to the wet ingredients and mix using a whisk to form a uniform batter
- Fill the muffin pan with batter in each hole. I used a greased ½ measure cup, so it was easy to pour the batter.
Let's Bake Muffins
- Bake the muffins in the preheated oven for 22-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean.
- Oven temperature differs from oven to oven, so bake accordingly
- Once the muffins are done, remove it from the oven, let it sit in the pan for 2 minutes, the remove the muffins onto a wire rack.
Store & Serve
- Let it cool completely. The muffins can remain on the kitchen counter for a day. I prefer to refrigerate in an air-tight box.
- If serving from the refrigerator, reheat the muffins for a 10-20 seconds and serve the muffins warm.
Notes
- Baking temperature varies from oven to oven, so keep an eye on the bake after 15 minutes.
- I have used jaggery in the recipe, you can replace it with brown sugar or just plain white sugar.
- I baked a few muffins without walnut toppings, as my younger prefers less things on his muffin.
- If you prefer the classic dense banana muffins, then skip the baking soda and make baking powder ¾ teaspoon , you will get classic dense banana muffins.
More Muffin Ideas
- Mocha Muffins|How to make Eggless Mocha Muffins
- Vegan Banana and Cookie Butter Muffins/Vegan Banana and Biscoff muffins
- Eggless Strawberry chocolate chip muffins
- Eggless Whole Wheat Apple Jam muffins with caramel fudge
Nutrition
Disclaimer
I m not a Doctor or a Nutritionist The Nutrition information provided above comes from the plugin and is only an estimate.
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Wow that is so moist and so delicious!!! Thanks for sending it to my event.. Please add the link to Surabhi
Archana
wow these are yum.
divya
look awesome..
Reva
Muffins looks so lovely..:)
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Priya Suresh
Seriously these muffins are my favourite, i can have them anytime. Thanks for sending to T&T Priya.
Julie
Soft & delicious muffins!
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Yummy...
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Its really very easy to make n im going 2 try this muffins..Thanx 4 recipe.
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Swathi
Delicious and Healthy muffin Priya.
Anonymous
the muffins looks delicious.. will surely try them out.. Thanks for linking
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lovely for a breakfast. Yummy and soft it looks.
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yummy muffins..
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