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



























This is the recipe I have been searching for but didn’t know it! I have been trying to integrate chickpeas (Garbanzo beans) into a cookie/muffin/bar/some kind of breakfast thing so my toddler will get protein in a convenient bite sized way. Thank you!!
Actually I also made them the moment I saw the recipe because I urgently had to use up an overripe banana … They’ve just cooled and I tried them. So easy to throw together and yummy! I used peanut butter, erythritol for sugar free and some chocolate chips, too.
For the gluten free people who don’t tolerate oats: I used quinoa flakes, works like a spell.
Thanks Katie, I love your recipes 🙂
How much erythritol did you use in the recipe??
These look so delicious but I can’t eat any nut or seeds. Is there an!alternative you can suggest to the nut butter in this?
You can use Peabutter or Earth Balance. Probably coconut butter, but I haven’t tried it. Be sure to report back if you try!
I’ll have to try these! And you are GORGEOUS!!!! Love the picture of you on the rooftop!
Hiya, Katie! Long time reader, first time commenter. How did you get interested in health-ifying desserts? A lot of people do it bc they have to for themselves for a loved one but you don’t seem to have issues with eating too many calories and a lot of your recipes are designed to be low cal. It’s just something that came up to me. Lol, if anyone can direct me to a post she wrote somewhere or something I’d be happy to read 🙂
This is an older post, but it basically summarizes: https://lett-trim.today/2008/08/26/whats-with-my-blog-url-anyway/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I love dessert and don’t want to eat it in moderation (i.e.once a day or less), so I needed to find healthier alternatives.
I am going to Trader Joe’s today and will be getting the ingredients to make these! Can’t wait!!! Yuuuummmmm!!!
I love how dense these muffins look. I’m all about dense textures..it’s a bit weird. But these look right up my ally in terms of texture!
Hi Ms.Katie, I’m twelve years old and I LOVE your recipes! I make them for my family all the time. I’ll have to try these muffins this weekend. 🙂
Thank you!!
Wow, I was wondering what the secret ingredient to these moist bad boys was! Chickpeas, hooray! However, lately I’ve been in a bit of a rut with bananas. The flavor just hasn’t been appealing to me as much as it used to! That’s why I have to get started on the banana bread and banana muffin recipes ASAP!
These are life-changing good! Thank you for posting this recipe!
Katie these are delicious!! Thank you for the recipe
Hi Katie! I just put these muffins in the oven, and from tasting the batter (or basically eating the whole thing ?) they are THE MOST WONDERFUL THING EVER! I love love love healthy recipes-and this one is going permanently under my belt!! Thank you thank you thank you!!!
Quinoa is a seed not a grain… but if you avoid it, I have made similar dense baked goods with almond meal, I think Katie also suggested this somewhere in the comments but I don’t see it now(it might have been someone else).
I am making this recipe with a mini cupcake tin. Do I leave them in for the same amount of time?
Followed recipe exactly and just added cinnamon and coconut flakes. Delicious! Thanks!
I made them yesterday, they taste great! Too bad I forgot to take one to work today, I’ll make it up when I get home 🙂
Since the peanutbutter I had was sweetened, I left the sugar out. I added some cinnamon, cocos, walnuts and chocolate chips (I couldn’t chose, took all I could find). Thanks for the recipe!
Made the banana blender muffins yesterday and oh my! They are delicious and I will difinitely make them again. I added walnuts to mine and sprinkled some nutmeg on top. My husband loved them too (darn) 😉 Thank you Katie for your delicious recipes!