I was in a muffin baking kinda mood and I realized I didn’t have just a simple oatmeal chocolate chip banana muffin. I was also in chocolate kinda mood haha and I wanted these muffins to be filled with chocolate chips, not have fewer chips than I can count on one hand 😉 These oatmeal chocolate banana muffins are delicious, big and fluffy and filled with lots of delicious chocolate with every bite! Makes 12 muffins at just 4 smart points each on WW freestyle.
Oatmeal banana chocolate chip muffins
3-4PP, 4 SP on blue, green, 3SP purple
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 3 small-medium bananas mashed
- 1/4 cup milk I used 1%
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1 cup oats quick oats is fine
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F and spray a 12 hole regular muffin tin with some non stick spray.
- In a bowl whisk your eggs and brown sugar together. Add in apple sauce, mashed banana, milk and vanilla and mix well.
- Stir in flour, oats and baking powder, fold in chocolate chips.
- Divide batter evenly over your 12 muffin cups.
- Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes, makes 12 muffins at 4SP each, muffins will freeze well, store in a sealed container and best in the fridge after day 1.
- *Note- you can leave the chocolate chips out if you'd prefer and they will be 3SP each
Notes
Personal Points- 3-4 depending on your 0PP foods Freestyle SP- (blue & green) 4 using WW recipe builder
Smart Points- (purple) 3 using WW recipe builder
Points Plus- 4 using PP calculator
Nutritional info per muffin.. Calories 160... Fat 3.3g... Sat Fat 1.7g...Carbs 28.5g.. Fiber 2g... Sugar 10.4g...Protein 4.2g using My Fitness Pal *Note includes all ingredients, old SP/PP were determined before entering the fruit
Smart Points- (purple) 3 using WW recipe builder
Points Plus- 4 using PP calculator
Nutritional info per muffin.. Calories 160... Fat 3.3g... Sat Fat 1.7g...Carbs 28.5g.. Fiber 2g... Sugar 10.4g...Protein 4.2g using My Fitness Pal *Note includes all ingredients, old SP/PP were determined before entering the fruit
36 Comments
These sound scrumptious but dealing with banana allergy. Anything I could substtitute?
Bananas make up a big part of the recipe so I can’t guarantee the same outcome if you do replace but substitutes could be more apple sauce, pumpkin
How do you think these would work using Swerve brown sugar instead of regular brown sugar?
If you like swerve then I think they will be fine, I have never used it so I can’t give an honest answer sorry
These are so yummy with a cup of coffee in the morning! I used almond milk and truvia brown sugar to even lower the calories. Very moist and delicious
Hi Julia, I am so glad you enjoyed the muffins 🙂
Made these last night, delicious!!
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed them 🙂
I made these today but replaced the chips with pecans (just because I don’t usually like fruit and chocolate together). They turned out amazing. Thank you for the recipe.
Awesome, so glad you enjoyed them 🙂
These look like something my very picky teen might eat. Is there anything I could do to increase the protein? Thanks.
Hi Traci, I bet you can sneak in some protein powder if you want, just leave a little flour out in replace of it
I have rolled oats. Would that work or should I prepare them someway before hand??
They should work fine 🙂
I really enjoyed this recipe. It was just the right amount of sweet. Thanks!
So glad you enjoyed them 🙂
These are teen approved. I made them and they are almost gone now. It’s only been a day. Great flavor and easy to make.
Haha I love hearing that! I have a teen too and she enjoyed them 🙂 thanks for sharing
I got 4 points plus using the WW calculator
Hi Cindy, you are right!! Typo on my behalf, thanks for letting me know I updated it
I made this recipe (double batch) to use up the oatmeal that’s been sitting in the pantry and some bananas that turned too fast. I didn’t like it – I LOVED it. These muffins are delicious and taste just as good thawed from the freezer. I used (white) Splenda because we have a diabetic in the family and I can’t find the brown sugar variety; seriously delicious! Thanks Kate!
Hi Anna, Yay..so glad you loved them 🙂 Thanks for sharing that splenda worked just as good 🙂
I made these a few weeks ago. My husband has asked me to make more! I froze half of them and grab one for a quick snack before my exercise class or for a yummy late afternoon snack!
Hi Lisa, so glad you both enjoyed them 🙂 they have easily become one of my favorites!
Do you heat up or just defrost before eating?
I personally would probably pop in toaster or air fryer even for a few minutes to heat up but you don’t have to
I made these last night. I used Sukrin Brown sugar to lower the ponts to 3 pts each. They are wonderful! Taste great and come together quickly!
Hi Lynn, so glad you enjoyed the muffins and thanks for the tip 🙂
I recall this recipe requiring egg whites. Was this updated to include whole eggs?
Nope it always called for 2 eggs, it was pre-smart points that I used egg whites more often in baking since eggs had points, but you can use egg whites if you wish
Hello!
Love your recipes! How many points are these muffins without the chocolate chips?
So glad you are enjoying them, I think the chocolate chips add 1 point to the muffins
These are delicious. I just calculated the SP and I got 5 for Green. Did I do something wrong?
SO glad you enjoyed them, did you use the nutritional numbers or build the recipe in the App? The numbers I give incl all ingredients even zero-point ones like banana, I build the recipes in the WW app to determine points then I build the recipes in MyFitness pal to determine nutritional numbers, if you did build the recipe in your app and still got 5 it could just come down to the different brand of something used
This recipe is so good. I used dark chocolate chip and sprinkle cinnamon on top. Thank you!
You are very welcome, glad you enjoyed 🙂