An easy recipe for a batch of wholesome chocolate chip peanut butter muffins that can be completely oil free, dairy free, and vegan!
These delicious and secretly healthy peanut butter muffins are extra peanut buttery.
The best part? You probably already have every single one of the ingredients in your pantry needed to make them today!
The healthy muffin recipe is also great for meal prep. Whip up a batch on Sunday to eat throughout the week, or freeze leftover muffins to enjoy on a rainy day.
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Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Muffins
If you think you’re not a breakfast person, just try to resist the charms of these delightfully fluffy peanut butter muffins.
The chocolate chips are optional, but I personally always add them.
Because, of course I do.
If you prefer, feel free to replace the chocolate with white chocolate chips, raisins or chopped dates, or even peanut butter chips. That last option is only for the most ardent of peanut butter lovers!
Also try these healthy Bran Muffins
More Peanut Butter Recipes
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Bars
And then there’s my personal favorite: Chocolate Peanut Butter Nice Cream.
Peanut Butter Muffin Ingredients
Here’s what you need to make the muffins: spelt, white, or oat flour, milk of choice, peanut butter, apple cider vinegar, pure vanilla extract, sweetener, baking powder, salt, and optional regular or mini chocolate chips.
The recipe is naturally egg free and can also be gluten free. For plant based and dairy free muffins, I use almond milk, soy milk, or coconut milk.
The muffins call for regular sugar or unrefined sugar. You can substitute xylitol or granulated erythritol for sugar free peanut butter muffins if you wish. I have not tried using a liquid sweetener such as honey or pure maple syrup, so be sure to report back if you experiment before I do.
Natural peanut butter or conventional (like Jif or Skippy) are both fine choices here and both yield a final product with a soft texture and rich flavor.
For peanut free or allergy free muffins, the recipe works with almond butter, cashew butter, regular butter (such as Melt vegan), or sunbutter too.
There’s no banana required for these muffins. If you do want peanut butter muffins with banana, just use the following homemade Banana Muffins recipe instead of the banana free recipe below.
Baking & Storage Tips
If using natural peanut butter, or if your nut butter is not easily stir-able before beginning, gently heat it up in the microwave or on the stove until soft.
In the video, I added the peanut butter separately to show it going into the bowl. But it is easier to stir the nut butter into the liquid ingredients before adding to the dry.
If you can wait a day, I recommend very loosely covering the pastries once they are cool and letting them sit overnight. The taste and texture are better the next day, and the muffin liners will peel off much more easily.
Because some of the ingredients are perishable, it is best to store leftover muffins after a day or two in a covered container in the refrigerator for three or four days.
Or you can freeze leftovers for up to three months in an airtight container. I like to remove the paper liners before freezing, but it is not required. When ready to eat, simply reheat in the microwave or for a few minutes in a warm oven.
If you want muffins with no refined sugar, make these Flourless Blender Muffins.
Muffin Calories & Nutrition Facts
If made with real sugar and full fat peanut butter, each regular sized muffin will have just 133 calories and 5 Weight Watchers points.
Low in saturated fat and cholesterol free, with protein, iron, and fiber, the muffins are great for a quick and easy snack or as part of a healthy breakfast.
For high protein muffins, you can even replace up to a third cup of the flour with your favorite protein powder or powdered peanut butter.
Full nutrition facts for the peanut butter muffins are included in the recipe box below.
Above – watch the video of how to make peanut butter chocolate chip muffins
Peanut Butter Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups spelt, white, or oat flour (for flourless, try these Keto Muffins)
- 3/4 cup milk of choice
- 1/4 cup peanut butter (allergy-friendly substitutions are listed above)
- 3 tbsp oil or additional milk of choice (or 4 tbsp additional peanut butter)
- 1 tbsp white or cider vinegar
- 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sugar (or xylitol for sugar free)
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 3/4 tsp salt
- optional handful chocolate chips, chopped peanuts, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 F. If not already easily stir-able, gently heat nut butter. Combine all ingredients to form a batter, smooth into lined muffin tins, and bake on the center rack for 20 minutes. Let cool completely. If you can wait, very loosely cover and let them sit, because the muffins taste even better the next day and liners also peel off easily after a day.View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
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Can you make this with peanut butter flour instead of regular PB?
Hmm sorry we have never tried adding or substituting peanut flour.
I would give this recipe 100 stars! I made it with honey instead of sugar extra pb and choc chips. Soooo good!!
Could I replace the oil with 1 large egg? I love all your recipes btw! : )
Thank you so much! I honestly can’t say how that would go, because I haven’t tried it. Edible experiments are always fun as long as you don’t mind the risk.
Hi! I’m wondering why the recipe calls for vinegar and baking powder (not baking soda)? What is the vinegar for (it usually pairs with soda to leaven)? Thanks!
Vinegar is often used in vegan baking with milk to make buttermilk. Baking powder is a binder instead of eggs. The two don’t need to be used together. It looks like they are doing two different things for this recipe.
Refrigerate? Freeze options? Soooo yummy but needing to save some for later weeks!!
You can absolutely refrigerate in a covered container for a few days or freeze for a month or two 🙂
Absolutely delicious! I’m not a vegan but my whole family loved the peanut butter muffins. We added chocolate chips to half of them, both versions were delicious.
These muffins were SO good! We made them last night and already six are gone. Make these!
I was wondering if I could use PB2 (mixed with water to make 1/4 cup of peanut butter) as a substitute?
Thanks! Love all your recipes.
Hi, sorry we have not tried it so really do not know how/if it would work. Be sure to reply back if you experiment!
I LOVE these muffins.
I’m usually disappointed in muffin recipes but not these. I made them with Trader Joe’s crunchy peanut butter and nonfat milk. I used 2 tablespoons of canola oil, one extra tablespoon of peanut butter and one extra tablespoon of milk. For flour I used one cup white whole wheat and a half cup oat flour. For sugar I used 4 tablespoons brown sugar and five tablespoons stevia. I used chocolate chips. I baked them in liners and oiled them slightly.
These ARE my favorite muffins!
This made us so happy 🙂
I am anxious to try this recipe but was wondering if cocoa powder could be added to make a more rich muffin? If yes what would the measurement be? Or just to taste?
Chocolate sounds like a delicious experiment. Katie has a chocolate muffin recipe here: https://lett-trim.today/low-fat-chocolate-muffins-100-calories/%3C/a%3E%3Cbr /> For a peanut butter version, just replace all of the oil and yogurt called for in that chocolate muffin recipe with a total of 5 tbsp peanut butter. And let us know how it goes!
These muffins look delicious. I have followed your site for the several years I have been on WW. I love the convenience of having points figured for me. Have you ever thought about having a link to WW tracking? I am impressed with the way it works on other sites. Thank you for your recipe development.
Thank you so much for reading! We haven’t ever heard of WW tracking that and don’t really know what it means, but we will look around on other food recipe blogs to see if we can better understand it. Please feel free to email us with examples if you have any that you like.
I’m usually hesitant with peanut butter goods, thinking they’ll be dry or too strong. BUT THESE ARE PERFECTION! They are fluffy and just the perfect amount of peanut butter flavor. Of course I added a bunch of dark chocolate chips.
(I used half whole wheat, half all purpose flour, fyi)
I’ll make these again very soon.
Thank you so much 🙂