Healthy Blueberry Banana Muffins

These Healthy Blueberry Banana Muffins are exactly what you want in a muffin – tender, wholesome, and flavorful. Made without any refined sugar, this muffin recipe can easily be made dairy-free and vegan too.

Indulging in a bakery-style Buttermilk Blueberry Muffin is always a treat, but when you like muffins as much as we do, you don’t always want to opt for those decadent muffins all the time. We love making muffins frequently in our home and so having healthier muffin recipes in our recipe repertoire is a must for us.

These Healthy Blueberry Banana Muffins are all the things we love about muffins – they’re soft and tender and crammed full of juicy berries. Despite having all the makings of a delicious muffin, you’d be surprised to find out they are made with ingredients that are much healthier than traditional versions.

You’ll find much less sweetener and butter in these healthy blueberry banana muffins than in those bakery-style muffin recipes. The sweetener that is used is honey or maple syrup too, so you can set those refined sugars aside for this recipe. You can also make these healthy muffins without butter (coconut oil is a great alternative) and use more nutritious flours like spelt or whole wheat.

Those simple changes produce a healthier muffin that you can feel good about sharing with your family but is still flavorful and satisfying.

These healthy muffins taste like a banana muffin and a blueberry muffin had a baby, and what a tasty baby it is!

With a few simple swaps (see Substitutions and Variations section below), you can easily make these to accomodate for food restrictions. They can be made dairy-free, egg-free, and vegan.

Ingredients in Healthy Blueberry Banana Muffins

• Eggs: I make these muffins with 2 large eggs but you can also make these egg-free by substituting flax eggs. See the recipe notes for how to make the swap.
  
  
• Bananas: ripe bananas, mashed with a fork. Ripe bananas add sweetness to the muffins which means you can use less added sweetener in this recipe than you would need to otherwise.
  
  
• Butter or coconut oil: melted. I make these with either butter or coconut oil, depending on what I have on hand. If you wish to make these dairy-free or vegan, you can use the coconut oil.
  
  
• Sweetener: honey or maple syrup. I love swapping in honey or maple syrup for sugar when I can and it works beautifully in this recipe. There is just enough sweetener to make these lightly sweetened muffins. Note: if you are looking to make these vegan muffins, be sure to use the maple syrup instead as honey is not considered vegan.
  
  
• Milk: of choice. You can use dairy milk or nondairy milk like coconut milk, almond milk, or similar.
  
  
• Flavorings: vanilla extract, cinnamon, salt.
  
  
• Leaveners: baking soda and baking powder.
  
  
• Flour: spelt flour, all purpose flour, or whole wheat flour. When using spelt or whole wheat flour, I usually prefer only replacing half of the flour amount with those flour options and using all purpose flour for the other half. This way, I get some of the benefits of the healthier flour while still maintaining the texture of a regular all-purpose flour muffin. This is a personal preference.
  
  
• Blueberries: Fresh blueberries are preferable but in a pinch, you can use frozen. Frozen blueberries tend to bleed into the batter staining in blue, so be sure to fold them in gently to reduce this as much as possible.

**Note: Ingredient quantities and full instructions are in the recipe card at the end of this post.**

How to make Healthy Blueberry Banana Muffins

1. Prep. Preheat oven to 350F and add muffin liners to a 12 cup muffin tin.
   
   
2. In a large bowl mix everything except the flour and blueberries. Mix eggs, bananas, coconut oil or butter, maple syrup or honey, milk, vanilla extract, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and baking powder together in a large bowl.
   
   
3. Add the flour to form a batter. Add flour and stir together until well incorporated.
   
   
4. Fold in the blueberries. Add blueberries and gently fold into the mixture.
   
   
5. Bake. Bake for 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the muffin comes out clean. Remove from oven and let cool in tin for 20 minutes. Gently remove muffins from tin and place on a cooling rack to cool completely.

Substitutions and Variations

• Substitute flax eggs for the regular eggs to make these egg-free. See the note section of the recipe card below for tips on how to do this.
  
  
• Use nondairy ingredients to make these dairy-free. Nondairy milks like coconut milk, oat milk, almond milk, and soy milk can be used instead. You can use the coconut oil instead of butter as well.
  
  
• Make these vegan. By making the egg and dairy swaps listed above you are well on your way to having a vegan muffin. The only additional consideration is to ensure you use maple syrup instead of honey since honey isn’t vegan.
  
  
• Use other berries. Instead of or in addition to the blueberries in these muffins, you can use raspberries, chopped strawberries, or blackberries, for example.
  
  
• Turn these into chocolate chip muffins. Chocolate chip and banana muffins are delicious! Replace the blueberries with chocolate chips for another tasty variation.
  
  
• Add nuts. Chopped walnuts, pecans, or almond slivers are a great way to add healthy fats and protein.

Storing leftovers

Once cooled completely, muffins can be placed in an airtight container and stored at room temperature for a couple of days.

For longer storage, you can freeze these muffins. Just place the cooled muffins in a freezer safe bag or container and freeze. They will keep this way for a couple of months. When you want to enjoy them again, you can thaw them overnight in the fridge and pop them in the oven or microwave to warm them up.

These healthy blueberry banana muffins are the perfect snack or breakfast on the go. We love them paired with a hot cup of coffee!

I hope you enjoy these muffins as much as we do!

You may also like these other healthier muffin recipes:

Banana Chocolate Chip Oat Muffins
Healthy Strawberry Banana Muffins
Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Chunk Muffins
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins
Healthy Double Chocolate Banana Muffins
Gluten-Free Keto Blueberry Muffins
Gluten-Free Keto Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Healthy Apple Oat Muffins
Bran Muffins (with Bran Flakes) Recipe
Carrot Zucchini Muffins