Sugar-Free Vegan Banana Muffins (2024)

These sugar-free vegan banana muffins are soft, moist mini muffins perfect as a first vegan baby recipe from 6 months. They are easy to eat with small hands and are allergy-friendly: egg-free, dairy-free, and refined sugar-free.

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I love baking super-simple vegan recipes that are also healthy and delicious. I believe that you can have treats that are both nutritious and conscious.

I have made many healthy vegan muffins, like my 3-Ingredient Banana Muffins, Oatmeal Vegan Muffins, or Vegan Gluten-Free Muffins.

What Are Sugar-Free Banana Muffins?

Sugar-free Banana Muffins are healthy banana muffins, also known as baby-led weaning banana muffins, perfect to offer as a baby’s first food from 6 months of age.

They are perfect for mums who want to start baby-led weaning, a baby feeding technique that consists of offering real food to babies instead of baby puree.

Baby muffins are sugar-free, which means they don’t contain added sugar, and they are made with wholesome, nutritious ingredients, safe for babies from 6 months of age.

Ingredients

All you need are 5 simple ingredients:

• Flour – whole wheat flour or all-purpose flour. Both options work great. Whole wheat flour contains more fiber and makes the muffin a little denser, but it is a nutritious flour for babies. If your little one has some food allergies, you can adapt this recipe to make it gluten-free by replacing whole wheat flour with all-purpose gluten-free flour and add 1 teaspoon of lemon juice to the recipe to help the muffin raise more.
• Melted coconut oil or vegetable oil you have at home, like light olive oil or canola oil.
• Milk of choice – you can use breastmilk for babies from 6 months old or non-dairy milk like almond milk, coconut milk, or oat milk.
• Ripe bananas – these are sugar-free banana muffins only sweetened with mashed bananas. It means that the ripest the banana is, the sweetest the muffins will be!
• Baking powder – essential to give them a little rise.

Flavoring Options

For toddlers from 12 months of age, you can add the following:

• 1/3 cup of chocolate chips
• 1/4 cup of coconut sugar
• 1/2 cup of dried raisins
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
• 1/3 cup of finely chopped walnuts
• Replace the plant-based milk with the same amount of a liquid sweetener, such as maple syrup.

You can also use this baby banana muffin recipe to create a range of baby-led weaning muffins.

Stir in the batter some of the ingredients below to introduce new food to your baby.

• 1/3 cup of finely grated carrots.
• 1/3 cup of finely grated and squeezed zucchini.
• 1/4 cup of nutritional yeast to add a cheese flavor.

How To Make Sugar-Free Banana Muffins

These baby-led weaning banana muffins are super easy to whip up in 15 minutes.

1. First, peel and mash the bananas in a large bowl.

2. Then, add all the remaining wet ingredients: coconut oil and almond milk.

3. Now, stir in baking powder and flour until it forms a smooth muffin batter. It’s ok if there are bits of bananas in your banana baby muffins. The bits will be very soft after baking and soft for the baby to swallow.

4. Grease two 12-hole mini muffin pans with coconut oil. Then, fill each hole up to 3/4 of its volume.
5. Bake the batter in a preheated oven at 350°F (180°C) on the center rack until a pick inserted in the middle comes out clean. It takes 15 to 18 minutes.

Remove the muffin tins from the oven and cool the baby-led weaning banana muffins on a cooling rack for 30 minutes or until they reach room temperature before offering them to your kids.

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