Vegan-Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins

January 28th, 2010 , Nutritious Foodie

Vegan-Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins

Ingredients:

- 2 cups White Rice Flour (or 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour, if you are not worried about GLUTEN)
-1.5 tsp Baking Soda
- 0.5 tsp Salt
- 0.5 cup light Agave (or 0.5 – 1 cup sugar, depending how sweet you like it be)
- 0.5 cup grapeseed oil (or regualr vegetable oil, I used grapeseed oil since it is heart healthy)
- 0.5 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 0.5 cup Walnuts
- 0.25 cup Raisins
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- dash of Nutmeg
- 1 tbsp Vanilla Extract
- 3 ripe Bananas

Baking Directions: Yields a Baker’s Dozen

- Preheat oven to 350°
- Combine flour, baking soda and salt together
- Mix agave (or sugar), oil, applesauce and vanilla together
- Slowly (couple spoons at a time) add the flour mixture to agave mixture, add walnuts and raisins.  Make sure you don’t over mix
- Mash bananas in a separate bowl
- Fold in mashed bananas into the muffin mixture
- Bake for 25 min or until done

OH MY GOODNESS!  These turned out AMAZING.   I loved the rice flour in this mixture.  Raymond thought it was a bit grainy but I loved the texture, it is really a personal preference.   You can add a bit more applesauce if you like it really moist… to me it was just perfect.

Category: Recipe, Vegan
Labels: Tags: Baking, Banana, Gluten Free, Raisins, Walnuts

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9 Comments

• At 2010.02.02 19:23, Erin (Travel, Eat, Repeat) said:
  

  This sounds awesome! I might have to whip up a batch this weekend.

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• At 2010.02.02 21:47, Stef said:
  

  oh those look phenomenal!

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• At 2010.02.03 06:45, Jennifer said:
  

  These are so wonderful!! Thanks!

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• At 2010.02.03 23:06, Sarah Jio said:
  

  Such a lovely idea! I’m going to post with a link to your site tomorrow on my blog for Glamour magazine (I’m the health and fitness blogger for Glamour–blog is Vitamin G!). Thanks for posting. Looks yummy! xo, Sarah

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• At 2010.02.04 06:41, kilax said:
  

  What a beautiful picture! You are a great photographer!

  It would be fun to experiment with different kinds of flours!

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• At 2010.02.06 15:42, Glamour… « Nutritious Foodie said:
  

  [...] have an exciting news… I was ecstatic to find out that on Thursday my Gluten Free Banana Nut Muffins were featured in  Glamour Magazine Health & Fitness Online as “Breakfast at your [...]

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• At 2010.04.24 16:58, Mandi said:
  

  These muffins are TERRIFIC! I made them with carob chips instead of walnuts and raisins. I also used half spelt flour and half whole wheat flour and cut back the agave a bit (since I ran out). Really really good. I’ll be making these again.

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• At 2010.05.23 12:36, Jess - The Domestic Vegan said:
  

  I am making these today!

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• At 2010.06.08 11:03, Heather (Heather's Dish) said:
  

  sign me up! these look fabulous…your photos are SO amazing!

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