Low Sugar Muffins, You Can Make Today!
Easy Recipes and Simple Ingredients
Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins
(recipe for low sugar muffins)
Makes 12 muffins
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F
Bake time 15-20 minutes
Ingredients
1 and 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/3 cup of sugar
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp sea salt
1 beaten egg
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
1 Cup Dark Chocolate Chips or 1 cup of berries
Mix Up the Goodness!
- Grease muffin tray cups or line with paper cup liners
- In a mixing bowl combine dry ingredients
- In another bowl combine wet ingredients
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients all at once and mix until moistened, don?t over mix.
- Add in chocolate chips or berries
- Spoon batter into the muffin cups about 2/3 full
- Bake 15-20 minutes at 400 degrees until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
You can also use semi sweet chocolate chips and this works well for blueberry muffins as well!
Banana Muffins or Bread
Next, I turned my thoughts to the family recipe for banana bread. The recipe had been used by all of us for years. Its easy and standard with a lot of butter and lots of sugar! The butter part doesn’t bother me as much as eating the large amount of sugar does. So I decided to make some changes to the recipe. Honey was considered but the conversion would still require a lot of honey. I thought, why not just reduce the sugar and see if it works. I adjusted the fats too, because I was feeling daring.
Banana Bread or Muffins
1 1/2 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
Mix together the dry ingredients in a small bowl. In a large bowl, cream the butter, coconut oil, and sugar together. In a third bowl, mash the bananas. Add the buttermilk and the egg. Mix well. Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the banana mixture to the butter and sugar. Mix just until combined.
Options for Banana Muffin Batter for Low Sugar Muffins
Banana Bread – Grease a loaf pan. Spread the batter in the loaf pan. Bake in a preheated 350 F oven for 50 minutes. (test with a toothpick inserted in center) Remove from oven, let cool for about 10 minutes in pan. Turn the loaf out of the pan onto a cooling rack. Allow to cool before slicing.
Banana Muffins – Grease muffin tin or use the cupcake liners. Fill the individual muffin slots about 2/3 full.
Bake muffins in a preheated 350 F oven for 15 to 18 minutes Cool on a baking rack.
Keep scrolling for the printable recipe cards. Please share your ideas for low sugar muffins and other baked goods in the comments.
Gluten Free Needed?
Try this recipe for Healthy Apple Cinnamon Muffins!
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 3/4 tsp sea salt
- 1/4 cup of butter softened
- 1/4 cup of coconut oil softened
- 1/2 cup of sugar
- 1 egg
- 3 bananas mashed
- 1/4 cup of buttermilk
- Banana Bread or Muffins
- Mix together the dry ingredients in a small bowl. In a large bowl, cream the butter, coconut oil, and sugar together. In a third bowl, mash the bananas. Add the buttermilk and the egg. Mix well. Alternate adding the dry ingredients and the banana mixture to the butter and sugar. Mix just until combined.
- Banana Bread - Grease a loaf pan. Spread the batter in the loaf pan. Bake in a preheated 350 F oven for 50 minutes.(check doneness with a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf. It should come out without batter on it) Remove from oven, let cool for about 10 minutes in pan. Turn the loaf out of the pan onto a cooling rack. Allow to cool before slicing.
- Banana Muffins - Grease muffin tin or use the cupcake liners. Fill the individual muffin slots about 2/3 full.
- Bake muffins in a preheated 350 F oven for 15 to 18 minutes until the center is baked, when tested with a toothpick.
- Cool on a baking rack.
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 1/3 cup of sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp sea salt
- 1 beaten egg
- ¾ cup milk
- ¼ cup coconut oil, melted
- 1 Cup Dark Chocolate Chips
- Preheat oven to 400 F
- Grease muffin tray cups or line with paper cup liners
- In a mixing bowl combine dry ingredients
- In another bowl combine wet ingredients
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients all at once and mix until moistened, don’t over mix.
- Add in chocolate chips
- Spoon batter into the muffin cups about 2/3 full
- Bake 15-20 minutes at 400 degrees until golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
- You can also use semi sweet chocolate chips and this works well for blue berry muffins as well!
Feeling adventurous? You could try this recipe for Corn Cob Jelly – Low Sugar from Homestead Lady
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I just mixed up the Dark Chocolate Muffins but I used blueberries. It smells so good! I can’t wait for it to cool! Thanks for sharing!
Shannon, I hope they tasted as good as they smelled! thanks for stopping in here. – Janet
Thanks soo much for the recipes! I love to bake! I am going to make these recipes this week! Maybe I will bake these muffins right now! Ha! Cindy
Hey Cindy You are very welcome. Please stop back and let me know how you liked them – Janet
Girl! I made the chocolate chip ones this morning…Excellent. Scrambled some eggs to go with them and my husband thought he was eating like a King! Thanks for the recipe.
Yay! I am glad you both liked these. And lower in sugar means you can eat two or three right???
I can’t wait to try these with blueberries we just picked! Thanks for the recipes.
Blueberries would be one of my favorites too
Congrats! You are this weeks feature on the (mis)Adventures Mondays Blog Hop! I can’t wait to see what you share this week!
Cool! Thanks Mindie
Thanks Janet, Going to try today.
I’m going to try adding pumpkin instead of banana for “you know who”!
Thanks
Let me know how that goes. We love pumpkin about as much as he does. Well maybe not that much
Janet, how did you begin to learn about photography? What camera did you start out with? Thank you for the low sugar recipes. Much appreciated.