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



























Should I let them sit inside or outside the oven?
Hi there! I have baking powder but not baking sida- will it work without it?
Unfortunately there’s really no way to know the results without trying, as the two are completely different ingredients and not interchangeable. But if you experiment, be sure to report back with results!
This recipe has saved me diet and health! I share these muffins with my family, you know, the ones that say they hate anything gluten free and could never do it! I just laugh when they say how delicious they are. And oh, by the way, what’s in them! Thank you Katie for ALL your amazing gluten fee ideas. I have been sharing your website with all my friends! (NOT my family!!! wink wink)
Omg im so excited to seee how this turns out! Just put a batch of the sugar free ones but made it as a loaf. i sprinkled it with cocoa nibs and added extra vanilla. I also swapped white beans for kidney beans. The mixture tastes divine!! I’m so excitedd
i think i fall in love of you!!
These look tasty and the ingredients are easily accessible, can’t wait to try; I don’t have a muffin tin, do you think they could work in a pan baked as bars?
My goodness, these are fantastic!!! Made them yesterday and added a couple of chocolate melts to the food processor for a little bit of a chocolate swirl through the muffins, and it was great!
I think next time I’ll press a chocolate melt into the centre of each of the muffins before I put them in the oven so that they have a nice gooey chocolatey centre when you bite into them.
Thanks for sharing this recipe Katie!!
OMG, I needed a snack for my newly vegan 11 year old daughter – who is craving protein like crazy. I must admit I was VERY skeptical…. I even mumbled under my breath that I was going to have to throw the whole thing away. To take it a step further, I didn’t have white beans, so i used BLACK, and I didn’t have quick oats so I used regular….. and you know what???? SERIOUSLY, DELICIOUS!!! Thank you, thank you!!
Did not like these at all. Made them with chickpeas like in the image.
Turned out like wet cardboard and a bit darker than the image on here. Actually cardboard would taste better.
I swear by the bean brownies, make them all the time. So thought I’d try this. Very disappointed.
Well, this one does say it’s not for everyone. Glad you like the brownies! 🙂
Jason
I made these for the second time today and I can’t believe how amazing they are! My 3 year old also loves them. Thanks for another incredible (and easy) recipe Katie!
Is there any way to sub for the beans? ??????My husband is highly allergic so we don’t use beans in our house. ?
https://lett-trim.today/2015/11/05/nutella-muffins/%3C/a%3E 🙂
Love this recipe! Although mine turned out looking nothing like yours, they are delicious! I only added maybe half a tbl spoon of honey and it’s sweet enough for me. Next time maybe no sweetening at all. The banana makes it sweet enough for my taste I think.
Love this recipe, thank you! It also makes great flourless pancakes if you thin out the batter with almond milk.
I made these yesterday and love them! Such a perfect, hearty snack to take to work with me.
My college-age son was leery, telling my husband that “mom is making muffins in the blender and with beans”, but they all ate one and liked it, too. They weren’t as keen on the texture, but will either get used to it, or I’ll get more to myself. So either way, it’s a win!
Haha I love stories like these! Good for them for being open minded and giving the muffins a try even after knowing what the ingredients were!
I just made these with canelli beans and they are amazing! I bought some vegan chocolate and chopped into them to make them a slightly more indulgent snack. I can foresee many of these muffins in my future!
Thank you so much for this great recipe! I have been obsessed with bean brownies and looking for other bean baked treats. I made these with a half cup date sugar for a whole food sweetener instead of the sugar. I wanted to add ground flax, so I put in 4 T and another half a banana. Then I mixed in raisins and chopped raw ginger for extra flavor. I LOVE these. The texture is so nice a gooey, very satisfying. They were warm and wonderful straight out of the oven after 16 minutes of baking.
So I can use both northern beans or garbanzo beans for this recipe?
Either will work 🙂