Gluten Free Strawberry Banana Muffins

February 21, 2024
Posted by 9b1rc

Strawberry banana muffins for the win. Who doesn’t love the combo of delicious strawberries and bananas? They go together perfectly.

To make this strawberry banana muffin recipe even better it is gluten-free, refined sugar-free and works perfectly for someone following a clean eating lifestyle, like me.

These banana strawberry muffins are great for an easy breakfast or afternoon snack. Making healthy choices when it comes to snacking is easy when you have some of the best healthy muffin recipes to choose from.

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These strawberry banana muffins are made with fresh strawberries, mashed banana, and buckwheat flour. Even though the word ‘wheat’ is in the name, buckwheat is actually gluten free.

Strawberry Banana Muffins Ingredients

To make this healthy strawberry and banana muffins you will need a few simple ingredients. Most of these are commonly used in gluten free baking and can be found either at the local grocery store and/or online.

Dry ingredients:

1 cup buckwheat flour
1/2 cup almond flour
2 Tbsp arrowroot flour
2 tsp baking powder

Wet Ingredients:

2 bananas, mashed
4 eggs, room temperature
1/4 cup avocado oil (or coconut oil)
1/2 cup pure maple syrup
2 cups fresh strawberries, diced

This strawberry banana muffin recipe used a few gluten free flours. Buckwheat flour is a gluten free flour that is slightly nutty and adds a bit of a darker color to your baking. Almond flour is a commonly used flour, and arrowroot flour is a thickener (similar to cornstarch) but is made from a tuber.

These tasty muffins are naturally sweetened with the fresh fruit along with pure maple syrup. Because there are no refined sugars in these muffins, they have a light flavor, and not overly sweet.

ingredients to make strawberry banana muffins

To make these healthy gluten free strawberry banana muffins you will also need a muffin tin, and muffin liners.

How to Make Banana Muffins with Strawberries

First, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Then combine then dry ingredients in a large bowl. Add the buckwheat flour and the almond flour to the bowl.

Next, add the arrowroot flour and baking powder to the bowl.

In a separate bowl, mash the bananas with the back of a fork or a potato masher.

Then add the eggs and oil to the mashed bananas.

Add the maple syrup to the banana mixture.

Mix the wet ingredient until smooth.

mashed banana and strawberry muffin recipe

Next, pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir to combine.

Then gently add the diced strawberries to the muffin batter.

How to Bake Strawberry Banana Muffins

Line a muffin pan with parchment paper liners and spoon or scoop the muffin batter into the muffin cups. Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop even amounts of batter.

Then add strawberry slices to the top of each muffin (optional).

Place the muffins into the preheated oven and bake for 20-22 minutes, or until the muffins pass the toothpick test. Stick a clean toothpick into the center of a muffin and if it comes out clean then the muffins are done.

baked strawberry and banana muffins in muffin pan

Remove and place the banana strawberry muffins on a wire rack to cool.

Gluten Free Buckwheat Strawberry Banana Muffins

Enjoy these muffins with your morning coffee or tea.

strawberry banana muffins with fresh strawberries

These strawberry and banana muffins are moist and light and make a great afternoon snack.

buckwheat flour strawberry banana muffins

Enjoy a few now, share some with those you love or save a few for later. If you choose to save these in the freezer you can easily pop in the microwave to warm up for a few seconds and voila. Naturally sweetened with bananas and pure maple syrup, you don’t even need to tell the kids that they are refined sugar-free.

If you love healthy muffins, then you will also like these healthy muffin recipes:

Berry Oat Muffins
Healthy Apple Muffins
Blueberry Muffins with Lemon

Yield:
12

Prep Time:
10 minutes

Cook Time:
20 minutes

Total Time:
30 minutes

Healthy strawberry banana muffins recipe that is gluten free, refined sugar free and falls within a clean eating diet.

Ingredients

Dry:
1 cup light buckwheat flour
1/2 cup almond flour
2 Tbsp arrowroot flour
2 tsp baking powder
Wet:
2 bananas, mashed
4 eggs
1/4 cup avocado oil
1/2 cup maple syrup
2 cups diced strawberries

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Whisk together all the dry ingredients.
In a separate bowl, mash the banana and whisk together the wet ingredients mixing well.
Pour wet into dry and mix until combined.
Gently fold in the strawberries.
Line a muffin pan with paper liners
Portion out the batter into the muffin cups. Top with sliced strawberries.
Bake for 20-22 minutes, until the top is starting to turn golden. Perform toothpick test.
Remove from the oven and let sit in the tray to cool.