Bananas, oatmeal, and chocolate chips just go hand in hand. Whether it’s a bowl of oatmeal or muffin form, it gives you good feels all around, and it’s healthy too. These Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins are slightly sweet, absolutely delicious, and packed full of nutrients. Bananas and oatmeal both have a lot of healthy fiber. A high fiber intake is important for water balance in the body as well as proper digestion. Most people think they have to eat a ton of veggies to get fiber in, but I’m telling you, you can just eat one of these yummy muffins! That’s much more fun than a bowl of broccoli.
Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins are a great alternative to banana bread once your bananas start turning brown. Instead of loading yourself up with high-sugar banana bread, these muffins will give you a healthy energy boost. They’re low in sugar and high in nutrients. Perfect for breakfast, mid-morning with coffee, or for an afternoon treat.
Three reasons why you need to make this recipe!
They taste like chocolate chip banana bread.
As long as your bananas are brown enough, all the right flavors are there. The added oats give it a great texture, and the chocolate chips add a yummy chocolatey sweetness.
You probably already have all the ingredients on hand.
This recipe uses basic ingredients that are sitting in your pantry, just waiting for your bananas to turn brown. No fancy or unique ingredients that you need to hunt down at several different groceries stores are needed.
There are 4 grams of protein per muffin.
That’s almost as much as an egg! These aren’t protein muffins, but oatmeal does have a few grams of protein in it. It gives these muffins a little protein boost.
Ingredients you need to make Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins:
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ⅓ cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 3 medium bananas, mashed
- ¼ cup 1% low-fat milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup quick oats
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ⅓ cup mini chocolate chips
How to make Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins (step by step):
- Preheat the oven to 375F and spray a 12-hole regular muffin tin with some nonstick cooking spray.
- In a bowl, whisk the eggs and brown sugar together until light and fluffy. Add in the apple sauce, mashed banana, milk, and vanilla, and mix well.
- Stir in flour, oats, and baking powder. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter evenly over the 12 sprayed muffin cups.
- Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes.
Makes 12 muffins. Nutrition info for 1 muffin: Calories 160, Fat 4 g, Saturated fat 1.9 g, Carbs 28 g, Fiber 2.2 g, Sugars 9.7 g, Sodium 95 mg, Protein 4 g.
WW Points
- Eggs 0 points
- Brown sugar 16 points
- Unsweetened applesauce 0 points
- Mashed bananas 0 points
- Lowfat milk 1 point
- Vanilla 0 points
- All Purpose flour 16 points
- Quick Oats 7 points
- Baking powder 0 points
- Mini chocolate chips 17 points
5 points per muffin based on the WW app recipe creator.
If you’re using an older version of WW, check out these points below.
Points- 4
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
Different ways to change up this recipe:
- Leaving the chocolate chips out will reduce the muffins to 4 points each. You could substitute fresh fruit like blueberries without adding any points.
- Use Kodiak Pancake Mix instead of all-purpose flour and baking soda, for a quick option as well as a protein boost.
- You can lower the sugar content of each muffin even more by using Lily’s No Sugar Added Chocolate Chips instead of regular chocolate chips. It will still be 4 points per muffin, but it won’t be 9 grams of sugar per muffin.
- You can make these into a fun, healthy dessert by slicing one in half and toasting it for a few minutes in a toaster oven. Spray with spray butter (0 calories), add a dollop of light whipped cream on top, and sprinkle on a few extra chocolate chips. You could even add a few dashes of cinnamon.
- Add ½ tablespoon of cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice to the batter for some autumn flavor.
Tips and Tricks for Making Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins:
- You can use rolled oats if that’s all you have. If you don’t want the big texture of the rolled oats in the muffins, give them a blitz in a blender before adding them to the batter. It will grind them so they’re more fine like quick oats.
- If you find that your chocolate chips are falling to the bottom of the muffins once they’re baked, mix the chocolate chips into the flour the next time you make these muffins. By mixing the chocolate chips into the flour before adding the dry ingredients to the wet, the flour helps the chocolate chips stay in place once they’re mixed into the batter.
- Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins freeze well, so make large batches if you’d like. Keep them in freezer Ziploc bags for up to three months.
- After one day on the counter at room temp, the muffins need to be stored in an airtight container in the fridge.
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Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins
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 the oven to 375F and spray a 12-hole regular muffin tin with some nonstick cooking spray.
- In a bowl, whisk the eggs and brown sugar together until light and fluffy. Add in the apple sauce, mashed banana, milk, and vanilla, and mix well.
- Stir in flour, oats, and baking powder. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Divide the batter evenly over the 12 sprayed muffin cups.
- Bake in the oven for 18-20 minutes.
Notes
Smart Points- (purple) 3 using WW recipe builder
Points Plus- 4 using PP calculator
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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 🙂
I have been making these muffins for several years now and as I made them this cold & snowy morning, I figured it was way past time for me to leave a great review. I make these in my mini muffin tin and my whole family loves them-picky kids included! They are great with breakfast on a busy morning, snacking and to pack in school lunches. Thanks for a great recipe!
Hi Caryn, thanks so much for the review, I appreciate it and I’m so glad the whole family enjoys the muffins 🙂 Stay warm!!