I think the name says it all – these are banana-licious oaty muffins with some delicious cocoa. I have a bunch of bananas that are verging on bad, so I knew I had to bake something with them soon. I picked up cocoa powder at Trader Joe’s last week, so I thought that might be a fun addition. I also saw Kelly’s recipe for Double Chocolate Banana Muffin Tops, so that was inspiration as well 🙂
Cocoa Banana Oat Muffins
Ingredients
- 3 bananas
- 1/2 cup rice milk (I used the unsweetened variety from Whole Foods)
- 1/4 cup applesauce
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup (or less!) sugar – you don’t need much because the bananas are so sweet…
- 1.5 cups of oats
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- dash of salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 400F.
- Mash the bananas and mix them with the milk, applesauce, vanilla, and sugar.
- Mix together the oats, cocoa, baking powder, and salt – now add this to the banana mixture.
- Spray your muffin tins with non-stick cooking spray and spoon in the batter. Bake for about 20-25 minutes. These are very banana-y so they will still be a little soft.
- Makes 12 small-medium sized muffins.
oh wow, these sound amazing. yet another recipe on my to-do list!
the muffins look great! thanks for posting the recipe 😀
YYYYYUUUMMM!!! 😀
Oh those little cocoa muffins look good!
mmmmmmmmmm yummy looking muffins 🙂
thanks for your comment on my blog! i decided i missed blogging all of my meals too much!
Definitely taking note of this recipe! I love banana muffins! And with cocoa.. EVEN BETTER!
Those muffins looks so good! I will have to remember this recipe next time I have some bad naners.
Wow those look good – and I have bananas I need to use up!
Oooo those look delicious! I never think to put cocoa powder in muffins…but I love chocolate and banana so it would only make sense. I love that they are super bananay!
What a yummy and simple recipe!
That looks yummy. I’m always looking for muffin recipes that haven’t been sugared to death!
Yum.. Gotta love Trader Joe’s
I just found this recipe from one of your backlinks and I love it! I can’t wait for a few of my bananas to go overripe on me 🙂
I was looking for a cocoa muffin recipe and found this. We can’t wait till it bakes so we can eat it. 🙂