Giant Chocolate Banana Protein Muffins
Hungry? Have a snack that supports your body composition goals and fills you up. Here’s a healthy muffin recipe you’ve just gotta try.
The Ultimate Muffin Recipe
There’s a middle ground between snacking on junk food and snacking on raw broccoli. And that middle ground is delicious. That’s where this muffin recipe – and actually all our protein recipes – come in.
And I won’t stop saying it. You can be lean and jacked without eating like a monk – but by the same token – you can satisfy a sweet tooth without eating like an unsupervised child on Halloween night. That’s the deal with dessert that makes you feel full; it won’t leave you feeling like you need more to be satiated.
This recipe isn’t low calorie because these muffins are enormous. But you may find yourself cutting them in half and sharing with someone else. And if you don’t share, awesome! Desserts that satiate are still the ones that keep us lean.
Each muffin has about 20 grams of protein. That may not seem like a lot, but it’s quadruple the protein of a Starbucks muffin with 100 fewer calories. Scroll down to see how these muffins compare to the ones you’d find at Panera.
So let’s get to the good part: ingredients and directions.
The Ingredients
- 3 small bananas
- 1 can pumpkin puree
- 3 scoops chocolate Metabolic Drive (on Amazon)
- 1 cup Splenda or sweetener of choice
- 1/3 cup (about 5 tbsps) PB2 (on Amazon)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 cup walnuts (optional)
- Non-stick spray (on Amazon)
The Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit (176 degrees Celsius)
- Mash the bananas in a mixing bowl.
- Add all the other ingredients and mix thoroughly.
- Spray a muffin tin with non-stick spray.
- Evenly distribute the batter into a muffin tin that holds four big-ass muffins.
- Pull the muffins out of the oven and check for doneness by stabbing one with a knife or toothpick. If it comes out clean, it’s cooked through. If it comes out with batter attached, it needs a little more time. This recipe doesn’t contain eggs or raw meat, so you can enjoy it undercooked. Or just eat the batter totally raw, you animal.
The Options
- Go nuts… or don’t! I added walnuts in the video, but you can skip them completely or use any type of chopped nut you like. Chocolate chips are also a thing you could add.
- If you only have a standard muffin tin, use it but decrease the cook time by at least 10 minutes.
- You don’t have to use Splenda. Monk fruit (on Amazon) sweetener is also a good choice for this recipe.
- Also, feel free to decrease the sugar substitute if you don’t like your muffins super sweet. Just taste the batter as you go and use that as your guide.
- Sugar substitutions are not calorie free, so remember that any modifications (or any nut additions, changes in muffin size, etc.) you make will alter the calorie and macro count listed below.
Macros, Cals, And How Starbucks & Panera Stack Up
These values are for each jumbo-sized muffin. (The optional walnuts are not included in the nutritional value of the base recipe.)
Giant Chocolate-Banana Protein Muffin
- Calories: 258
- Fat: 3 grams
- Carbs: 33 grams
- Protein: 20 grams
Now compare these protein-filled muffins to what you’d find at two popular places. Here’s what you’re in for:
Panera Pumpkin Muffin
- Calories: 560
- Fat: 24 grams
- Carbs: 78 grams
- Protein: 8 grams
Starbucks Blueberry Muffin
- Calories: 360
- Fat: 15 grams
- Carbs: 52 grams
- Protein: 5 grams
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