My Apple Banana Oat Nut Muffins recipe is a scrumptious, healthier breakfast. My recipe has no butter and is packed with fresh apple tidbits and bananas! 

Apple Banana Muffins are good any time of the year as an easy make-ahead breakfast or a snack for the kiddos.

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This recipe is inspired by a 2-year-old

My almost 2 years old great-niece,  Ellie, stayed with us when her new baby brother was born recently. You can read about his interesting arrival here.  

Ellie calls muffins, ‘cup cakes’! Imagine how slick we think we are handing those healthy nutritious muffins over to a child who thinks she is eating cupcakes! She doesn’t even care that they don’t have icing on them!

I had all of the ingredients to make banana nut bread but I also had some apples so I decided to incorporate them into the recipe as well for some added flavor, natural sweetener, and a little punch of Vitamin C.

Table of Contents

• Bananas
• Apples
• Apple Banana Muffins
  • Ingredients
  • Streusel Topping Ingredients
    • How to prepare the apples for muffins
    • Step 1
    • Step 2
    • Step 3
    • Step 4
    • Step 5
    • Step 6
    • Step 7
    • Step 8
  • How to serve
  • How to store
• More Apple & Banana Recipes
• More Breakfast Recipes 
• Must Have Kitchen Tools

Bananas

Did you know that you can freeze bananas? Peel them first! Bananas have a tendency to over-ripen so very quickly, don’t they? Peel them, and freeze them whole in freezer bags and you will have bananas at the ready for smoothies, bread, or any recipe which calls for mashed bananas.

Apples

Apples are rich in Vitamins B, C, and Fiber.  They are even believed to lower bad cholesterol. Once my husband read that we started keeping apples in the kitchen all the time. We frequently enjoy an apple as our afternoon snack. 

Cooking with apples is one of my favorite things. They are good for sweet and savory recipes. I even enjoy apples simmered with onions as a topping for pork chops! Yummy!

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Apple Banana Muffins

These muffins are easy to make and kid-friendly. They mix by hand using a whisk so there is no need to take out the mixer for this one! We skipped the butter in our streusel topping. It is just a little brown sugar and oatmeal mixture you will sprinkle on top before baking. 

Ingredients

Chances are pretty good that you may already have most of these ingredients in your pantry. If you keep baking ingredients on hand, you will.

Bananas are naturally sweet and the riper they are, the sweeter they are. So we use ripe bananas for our natural sweetener and we only use 1/2 cup of sugar in this recipe.

This is a good recipe for using up ripe bananas and apples.

• 2 medium ripe bananas
• 1 large ripe sweet apple
• 2 cups sifted all-purpose whole wheat flour
• ½ cup chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts) Optional
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 Tbsp. baking powder
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• ½ tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. Cinnamon, Optional
• 1 large egg
• 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1 Cup 2% milk

Streusel Topping Ingredients

• 1/4 Cup light brown sugar
• 1/2 Cup rolled oats

How to prepare the apples for muffins

I peeled and chopped my apple in the mini food processor which makes the apple pieces very small and even pulverized. If you want larger apple chunks in your muffins, chop by hand on your cutting board. 

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350°

Step 2

Mix the brown sugar and rolled oats together in a small bowl and set aside.

Step 3

Sift flour into a large mixing bowl and stir in all the dry ingredients.

Step 4

Peel and mash the bananas into a separate medium bowl.

Step 5

Peel the apple, then core, and cut it into tiny tidbits.

Step 6

Mix the apple and bananas together, then stir well.

Add the fruit mixture into the bowl with the dry ingredients. Then whisk in the egg, nuts, and milk. Stir the mixture well by hand for several minutes. The batter will be lumpy.

Step 7

Fill prepared muffin cups ⅔ full with batter and top with a sprinkling of the streusel topping.

Step 8

Bake for approximately 25 minutes. Oven temperatures vary. Muffins are done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.

Serve and enjoy! These muffins are good hot or cold.

How to serve

These muffins are good cold to me but you can heat them for a few seconds in the microwave if you prefer warm muffins. 

How to store

Store these apple banana muffins in an airtight container on the kitchen counter. They should keep for a couple of days.

Make apple banana muffins for an easy back-to-school breakfast on busy mornings.

More Apple & Banana Recipes

Pair apples and cabbage for a weeknight dinner with Apple Stuffed Pork Tenderloin with Cabbage

Want to see just how versatile recipes really are? See These 35 Snack, Dessert & Drink Recipes Using Bananas include unique ways to incorporate bananas into recipes.

One of our most popular dessert recipes made in the Crockpot is this 3 Ingredient Crockpot Apple Dumplings

My favorite Easy Banana Bread recipe is stirred by hand. No need to get out the mixer. Slice it thick and make French Toast with it when it is a couple of days old.

Focusing on breakfast recipes using bananas, we curated this list of 29 Yummy Ways To Use Bananas for Breakfast.

More Breakfast Recipes

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• French Loaf Breakfast Omelet
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Must Have Kitchen Tools

• 5 Blade Adjustable Mandolin Slicer
• Black&Decker 1.5 Cup Food Chopper
• Cuisinart 5-in-1 Griddler
• 5 Blade Spiralizer