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



























Any idea if I can sub part of the oats for protein powder?
i made these yesterday! but i’m new at cooking so i still don’t own muffin cups. I used a medium pan with a little bit of oil, and when i tried to take it out of there once it was ready, i messed everything up. they still taste delicious! i love the texture! but i would love to hear tips so i can have real muffins or cake the next time, instead of messy pieces…please help me! Katie i love all your non-bake recipes and also this first bake recipe as well. i’m going for more!
Hey!! I made these yesterday as mini cupcakes, they were a hit! I’m thinking of treating them like cookies; bake them like cookies and make sandwiches with Nutella in the middle – has anyone else tried dropping these on a cookie sheet and bake them like that??:D
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I used butter beans, sunbutter and quinoa flakes it was awesome! My husband was obsessed and me too 🙂 thnx
I love this recipe! I’ve made it many times now, and I usually double it for more muffins. I make this with sunbutter so that my fiance with nut allergies can enjoy a healthy breakfast treat too.
I also shared the recipe with a kickboxing facebook group and people really enjoyed the recipe there as well! Many of them have added protein powder with great success.
Thank you so much for making them… and also thank you for your sweet comment on my other post. Really meant a lot to me 🙂
This has just passed the busband test. He has no clue what is in them except for banana and peanut butter. I did three recipes. One with honey, one with honey and added chocolate chips after blending and one with maple syrup. All of them are made with quinoa flakes. Thank you.
Going to try making these, but just wonder if vegetable oil will work instead of peanut butter? Don’t have the latter at home.
Katie, the sugarless banana bean muffins are incredible! I used home-cooked pinto beans, home-made walnut butter, and added 1/2 cup of Erythritol, a granular sugar alcohol, but it was too sweet. Next time I’ll try 1/4 cup. I let them keep cooking at a slightly lower temperature and they came out almost like normal muffins.
I try to use as little Stevia as possible since I learned that it metabolizes to become a cancer-causing agent. I first read about this at NutritionFacts.org, on their page about Stevia. For this reason, The World Health Organization has a recommended daily upper limit for Stevia based on a person’s weight, something like 0.8 grams times your weight in kg. You can find the correct information on their website. Erythritol tastes better, anyway. It does take time to become accustomed to using it in large quantities, but at least it’s safe and it works like sugar.
Thank you so much for all your work. You do look gorgeous; the gym workouts are paying off!
I replaced the banana with applesauce, added lemon juice, and 1/2 a tsp of poppyseeds: a batch of flourless lemon poppyseed blender muffins! They were great!
Tastes great. Nice substitute.
I love love love your flourless pumpkin muffins and blondies and these muffins. I am having surgery in jan and have been trying to make a lot of them to have in freezer and just saw that you wrote they only last 2-3 weeks in freezer ): I assumed they’d last months. IS there a reason why?
Thank you so much! My 11 month old and 2.5 year old love these too!
I just made these for the first time!!! They are amazing…I love the texture. I think I will probably be making these on a weekly basis from now on.
I just made these and my 1 year old baby loves them! Perfect snack! Thank you 🙂
made these and brought them into work… they were gone in minutes!! People even asked for the recipe and didn’t believe me when i said there were beans in them.. they are so good and simple to make! Cant wait to make again.
I triednthe recipe only to use up the canned chick peas i had. Normally i have no need for gluten free, sugar free, vegan or whatever dietary restrictions.
I must say they smell a bit strange. Surely they are edible but not convinced.
I tried some gluten free beers so farband noticed they are plain horrible. Could it be that gluten is somehow a flavor carrier like fat? When you substitute things just don’t taste good anymore.
I’m tempted to try a 100% opposite of these. Even add some bacon to counter the vegan aspect. Just for comparison ?