Whip up these flourless blender muffins for a super healthy breakfast or snack. The recipe can be gluten free, grain free, oil free, dairy free, vegan, and refined sugar free, with no eggs required!

These delicious soft and moist flourless oatmeal blender muffins are at least one hundred times better than ordinary bakery muffins.
Their addictive fudgy texture is absolutely unreal!
I’ve already made the recipe over a dozen times, and my blender literally has not been put away in over a month. It’s like eating cookie dough in the shape of a muffin.
As soon as I go through one batch, I’m immediately back in the kitchen making more blender muffins!
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Healthy flourless blender muffins
Honestly, I am completely obsessed with these muffins.
If you try them, you will probably become obsessed with the recipe too.
They are the perfect “anytime” healthy snack – at breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, dessert, or when you’re suddenly hungry at midnight or find yourself raiding the fridge at two in the morning…
Are there any meals I’ve forgotten?
If so, these blender muffins go well with those meals too.
And they’re portable, meaning you can easily take them in the car, throw a couple into a lunchbox for your kids, or pack them to enjoy on a hike or a picnic.
Also try my Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Watch the flourless blender muffin recipe video above
Banana blender muffin serving ideas
The blender muffins taste great plain or topped with peanut butter, almond butter, pumpkin butter, mashed banana, or Homemade Nutella.
Serve them for breakfast, snack, or dessert. Or enjoy the muffins as part of a savory meal, instead of dinner rolls or cornbread alongside soup or chili.
If I still haven’t convinced you to drop everything and try out a batch of these muffins right away, they also freeze well!
In my mind, that takes their awesomeness to a whole new level because it means you can have an easy and healthy snack even on days where you may be too busy to make a new recipe from scratch.
My freezer is filled to the top with healthy meals and snacks I’ve made in advance for such occasions when I want something filling and healthy without having to wait.
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Oatmeal blender muffin ingredients
The recipe calls for quick oats or almond flour, mashed banana, white beans or chickpeas, pure vanilla extract, baking powder, salt, and baking soda, nut butter or another fat source, sweetener, and optional cinnamon.
To make the blender muffins without banana, you can sub an equal amount of roasted sweet potato puree (here’s how to cook sweet potatoes).
Or substitute a third cup of applesauce or yogurt, or half a cup of canned pumpkin puree and add three tablespoons of sugar to make up for the difference in sweetness between banana and pumpkin.
Try adding a pinch of ginger, cardamom, pumpkin pie spice, or apple pie spice!
The almond flour or quick oats can be replaced with an equal amount of quinoa flakes. Or you can pulse rolled oats a few times in a blender to make your own quick oats.
Feel free to use garbanzo beans (chickpeas) or white beans like cannellini or great northern. If you prefer a muffin recipe without beans, try these Pumpkin Muffins, Healthy Blueberry Muffins, Oatmeal Muffins, Bran Muffins, Peanut Butter Muffins, Banana Muffins, or the paleo and low carb Keto Blueberry Muffins.
For a chocolate version, try these Chocolate Blender Muffins
How to make the recipe
Read through the recipe, and gather all of your ingredients.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a muffin tin with seven or eight liners, and set this pan aside.
Drain the beans. Rinse them very well to remove the canned bean flavor. Pat dry.
In either a blender or a food processor, combine all ingredients until smooth. If you are using a blender without a tamper (i.e. not a Vitamix or similar machine), stop a few times to stir the muffin mix with a spoon so it will blend evenly.
Smooth the batter about three fourths of the way up into the prepared muffin cups. Do not overfill, or they will rise and then sink in the centers.
Bake for twenty minutes on the center rack, then remove the muffin pan from the oven. The muffins should look underdone; they will firm up as they cool.
Once cooled, I like to refrigerate overnight, very loosely covered with paper towels, during which time they firm up even more. After sitting a day, the taste and texture are even better, and the liners peel off much more easily too.
Store leftovers in the refrigerator for optimal freshness. They will last up to three days refrigerated or a month or two in the freezer. Thaw frozen muffins before serving.
Mini blender muffins
If you wish to make the recipe into mini muffins instead of larger ones, portion the blender muffin batter into lined or greased mini muffin tins.
Follow the same instructions below, baking for just ten minutes instead of twenty.
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And now I am the girl you see at Trader Joe’s who is balancing three bunches of bananas and four cans of great northern beans in her arms.
(I should really learn to take a basket when I shop at Trader Joe’s. Somehow I always end up buying more than I came in for…)
The muffins are also great for bringing to a rooftop brunch.
I’ve gotten my friends hooked on them as well.


Blender Muffins
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup quick oats or almond flour (or try these Keto Muffins)
- 3/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup mashed banana or sweet potato puree
- 1 can chickpeas or white beans, or 250g cooked beans
- 1/4 cup peanut butter or allergy-friendly sub
- 1/4 cup pure maple syrup, honey, or agave
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- optional handful mini chocolate chips, crushed walnuts, shredded coconut, pinch cinnamon, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. Drain and rinse the beans well, then pat dry. This is important to get rid of any canned bean taste. Blend all ingredients until smooth in a blender or food processor. (If your blender has no tamper, stop occasionally to stir ingredients with a spoon to ensure even blending.) Transfer the batter to a muffin tin with liners. Bake on the center rack for 20 minutes, then let cool. The muffins firm up as they cool and firm up even more if you very loosely cover them and let sit overnight on the counter or in the fridge. As mentioned earlier, these muffins are supposed to be fudgy, not fluffy and floury like traditional muffins. Not everyone will be a fan of the texture, but if you like my black bean brownies, then you will probably like these as well! Muffins last for 3-4 days refrigerated or 2-3 weeks frozen.View Nutrition Facts



























Is it bad that I couldn’t stop licking the batter off the scraper? I had bananas that were on the verge of extinction! I’m allergic to cocoa and its hard to find desserts/snacks/ anything really that doesnt contain it. I plan to make these weekly. Thanks for an awesome recipe
These are soooo yummy. My husband said they were ‘too underccoked’ for him, so I plan on making another batch some time soon. In the meantime, the batch I made first with walnuts and choc-chips have almost disappeared because they are just too good and fudgy. Hoooray for Chocolate-covered Katie!
These are pretty fabulous. My kids love them. We use chick peas and wowbutter (soy spread) so that they can be sent to (nut-free) preschool time. Today though, I had a handful of leftover nuts in the cupboard – cashews, pecans and almonds – so I put them in the food processor with some coconut and a touch of cinnamon and brown sugar to make a crumble topping to put on some of them, and they were awesome!
Thanks for this. Looks great and I’m keen to try. Unfortunately I’m on a strict diet that includes avoiding lentils, beans, and soy, in addition to nuts, of any sort. Sorting out seed butter is easy but any suggestions for a substitute for the beans in this recipe?
Unfortunately they make up the bulk of this recipe so you really can’t sub them out. I would recommend a different recipe completely that does not use beans, such as this one maybe? https://lett-trim.today/2014/06/02/chocolate-chip-banana-bread-mini-muffins/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
These are delicious! My 4-year old and 20-month old think so, too!!! And mama is happy cuz they’re so much healthier than other snacks! Thanks, Katie! (The pic is showing the half that remain from a batch that was just made…)
I have quinoa at the house but have never seen quinoa flakes. Can I just grind up regular quinoa? Thanks! Does almond butter work instead of regular peanut butter?
I don’t think that would work, as quinoa flakes are like oats in texture. But you never know unless you try! Almond butter is fine to use though 🙂
Jason
I just made these they are in the oven now!!! It was hard to blend though with my blender so I added likemaybe 1/4 cup of almond milk to help it along….. we will see
I love these. Made them for breakfast. Delicious.
Hey guys, do the beans need to be cooked? Or can they be dry? Please let me know, thanks! ?
I would recommend canned. If using dry, yes you should cook first. If using canned, don’t cook first.
A hot of cup of milk will do justice to this muffins in the morning or a hot cup of tea in the afternoon.
The can beans come in a 15.5 oz can (439g) is this what I can use if rinsed ?
Love it!!! I just made my second batch and could totally eat all of them immediatly.
Can i substitute 1/4 c agave nectar for the honey? I ran out of honey. We tried these these this morning and love them!!!! Your blog and recipes are what ive been looking for! Im a gluten free, lactose free vegan and struggle terribly to find recipes that are easy and delicious, and that i can feed the whole family as opposed to just myself. This was the first recipe i tried and cant wait to try many more. Im also going to buy your cookbook! Super excited!
These look amazing! Sadly I just got rid of my muffin tin (moving stress), so do you think these would work in loaf Form? Maybe a few extra minutes of baking?
Thanks!!
Probably! She has a recipe on here that’s similar for white bean blondies, and that’s in an 8×8. Be sure to report back if you experiment!
I made the no-sugar-added version (with five small packets of stevia), and I am amazed. These are so good! Thank you!
Could I use PB2 in place of some of the peanut butter?
I guess you never know unless you try. Be sure to report back if you experiment!