Banana Coconut Muffins

These Banana Coconut Muffins are delicious and simple! Coconut sugar and applesauce makes muffins something you can feel a little less guilty about!

Hi friends! It’s Katie from Made to be a Momma.  I am so excited to be back with girls Jessica and Sarah ( who are also some of my real life besties)bringing you a delicious recipe each month!  To start off the year, I wanted to share these delicious banana coconut muffins!  I always seem to have ripe bananas laying around and I decided to add one of our favorite flavors…coconut.

I used coconut sugar and unsweetened applesauce to make these a tad bit healthier. The flavor of coconut in these can’t be beat and the secret is a bit of coconut extract, you can certainly replace it with vanilla extract but I can’t promise you will have the same pop of coconut flavor.  If you don’t have coconut sugar you can also replace it with regular table sugar.

Before I baked these muffins I topped them with some sweetened coconut.  The coconut toasted a bit in the oven but if you would rather a bit more crunch you can toast the coconut slightly before topping them on the batter.

Banana Coconut Muffins

Easy Banana Coconut Muffin recipe! 

5 from 1 vote

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Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Servings: 12

Calories: 154kcal

Author: Pretty Providence

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3 ripe bananas mashed
• 1/4 cup oil
• 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1/2 cup coconut sugar or table sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 tsp coconut extract
• 2 TBSP shredded sweetened coconut

Instructions

• In a medium sized bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
• Whisk together bananas, vegetable oil, unsweetened applesauce, sugar, egg, and coconut extract in a large bowl until well combined. Mix in flour mixture until just moistened
• Divide batter among lined muffin cups and sprinkle with shredded coconut. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Notes

Store leftover muffins in an airtight container.

Nutrition

Calories: 154kcal | Carbohydrates: 24g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 68mg | Potassium: 177mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 40IU | Vitamin C: 2.6mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 0.8mg

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These muffins are such a great breakfast muffin, dinner muffin, or a great treat for the kids after school. For more muffin ideas you should check out these cinnamon applesauce muffins!