One of my favorite Valentine’s Day memories is when my hubby, who can’t really cook, decided to make me a dessert as a surprise - it was a super yummy banana split. This year I’m surprising him (surprise honey!) with these delicious clean banana split muffins!
Ingredients:
- 4 medium size ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup date sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/3 cup chopped pecans
- 1/2 cup grain sweetened chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup unsweetened dried cherries
- 1/4 cup no sugar added canned crushed pineapple, drained
Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a small bowl add dried cherries and just enough water so that the cherries are covered completely by water. Let these sit until you’re ready to use them.
- Line a 12 cup muffin pan with paper liners and set aside.
- In a large bowl combine date sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla. Beat in bananas.
- Stir in flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well.
- Lastly, fold in pecans, chocolate chips, pineapple and cherries (drained). Combine to evenly distribute.
- Pour batter into muffin cups, filled to 3/4 full.
- Bake for about 30-40 minutes or until tops of muffins are golden brown.
- Remove muffins from the baking pan and let cool on a rack for about 20 minutes.
- Once muffins have cooled, serve topped with a spoonful of yogurt cheese if desired (see recipe here).
Nutritional Info:
Makes 18 - 20 muffins.
Nutrients per muffin: Calories: 180, Cal. from Fat: 72, Total Fat: 8g, Sat. Fat: 1.5g, Carbs: 25g, Fiber: 2.5g, Sugars: 12g, Protein: 2.5g, Sodium: 23mg, Chol: 21mg

2 Comments
could you please tell me what is date sugar and is there something else I could use?
thanks
Hi Cari,
Date sugar isn’t actually sugar - it’s just pulverized dried dates. You can pick it up at most health food stores. I get mine from Whole Foods - it usually located next to the other sugars and maple syrup. If you don’t want to use date sugar you could substitute with sucanat.
~Sarah