Best Blender Muffins

These mixer muffins are so easy to make and come out perfectly moist without flour! They are a healthy breakfast or snack to prepare.

Looking for a healthy breakfast or snack recipe? Look no further than these mixer cupcakes! Yes, these muffins are really good for you: no glorified cupcake! They’re made with rolled oats, bananas, and maple syrup: no all-purpose flour or refined sugar. Smear on some peanut butter or all natural almond butter and you have a hearty snack that feels like eating oatmeal and a banana! Alex and I love these banana muffins so much (and so do our readers) that we have a bunch of flavor variations too. Ready to start?

What’s so great about these mixer muffins?

Why make muffins in a blender instead of mixing the batter in a bowl? Well, number 1 is just more fun! For some reason he feels easier to make muffins in a blender: Maybe because all the mess is contained in one place? Or you don’t have to mess up 2 bowls and spoons? Either way, all you have to do is add all the ingredients to the blender and puree.

Another great thing about these mixer muffins is that You don’t need flour: just oatmeal! Mixing the oatmeal into the batter essentially turns it into oatmeal on the spot. You’ll find that oatmeal is used in many gluten-free recipes, but other flours are usually required to make them light and fluffy (because oatmeal is quite dense). In a way, these muffins are blender magic and don’t need anything else at all! Just a little baking soda and baking soda and they come out perfectly fluffy every time.

But most importantly… the taste!

But seriously, the real reason you’ll love these mixer cupcakes (hopefully) is because of the flavor! After trying these muffins for us before posting this recipe, reader Lisa said, “The mixer muffins were great and super easy to make. The whole family loved the recipe – it’s a winner!“

What blender?

While you can use any blender to make these muffins, we say make sure you have a good one! Full Disclosure: I tried to make these at my best friend’s house with a very bad blender. They came out anyway, but it took way longer than expected! A good quality blender is good for this recipe.

Alex and I have a high speed blender (we use this Vitamix blender) and it works wonders for these blender muffins. They glow in seconds! But of course any kind of mixer is also possible.

Variations on Blender Muffins

This version of our best mixer muffins is banana: it has a strong banana flavor and is lightly flavored with cinnamon and allspice. It basically tastes like banana bread in muffin form! After this recipe was first published, it became very popular among readers. So we created a number of different flavors that tie into the theme! Here are some of our mixer muffin variations:

• Blueberry Banana Muffins: These muffins are similar to the basic recipe but add fresh blueberries for a flavorful kick! They are also topped with turbinado sugar.
• Healthy Zucchini Muffins: These muffins use shredded zucchini instead of banana flavor: They’re also filled with diced apple chunks.
• Healthy Banana Bread: Not a muffin, but this banana bread uses the concept of mixer muffins to make a quick bread!
• Applesauce Muffins They come out moist and perfectly flavored! Ideal if you don’t have ripe bananas.
• Oatmeal Banana Pancakes: And here we used the concept of mixer muffins to make pancakes! It was a reader’s idea, and we took it and ran with it.

There you have it: everything you need to know about mixer muffins! We hope you try ours: let us know in the comments below.

Nutritional Benefits of Oats

There are many good things about eating these muffins! Because they’re mostly oatmeal, they offer all the benefits of a big bowl of oatmeal! According to the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Oats:

• Are rich in fiber
• May reduce risk of heart disease
• May be helpful in weight control

Alex and I eat a lot of oatmeal around our house, so we love that this trick turns it into something that looks like a muffin but has all the goodness of oatmeal.

This recipe is…

Vegetarian and gluten free. For vegans, plant-based and dairy-free, substitute flaxseed eggs for flaxseed eggs.