Chocolate Blender Protein Muffins

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I love sweets. Dessert, muffins, coffee cake, you name it.

In early 2017, I took a 7-day sugar pledge (you can read all about my experience here), and was forced to say adios to added sugars for a week. I had to find alternatives to my usual snacks (my yogurt had 10g of sugar per serving, or 2.5 teaspoons😞)

Enter these muffins. Naturally sweetened with bananas. Still have that chocolately goodness factor. And so easy to make. Count me in!

This recipe calls for oat flour, and if you don’t have that on hand, you can easily make it yourself. Just throw the 3/4 cup of oats in a food processor or high powered blender, and blend away until it’s a fine consistency. The first time I made this recipe, I didn’t even make the oat flour ahead of time, I just threw all the ingredients into the blender🙈 It worked perfectly fine, and I can’t say I prefer one way over the other. You do you, ok?

I haven’t tried it with alternative flours to make it gluten free, but I imagine it would come out just as good! Leave a comment below if you’ve tried that!

If you want a little indulgence, you can top your muffins with walnuts or pecans, or sprinkle granulated coconut sugar on top before you pop them in the oven. How delicious are those blueberry muffins that have that sweet crust of sugar on top? Do you know the ones I’m talking about? UGH. SO good. Do that to these if you want. Or add some chocolate chips if these are more of a treat than a clean eating snack.

The best part of this recipe: making it in a blender. We got this blender set for our wedding, and it makes short work of anything and everything you put in there. I use the extra tall cup, and make the oat flour first before adding the rest of the ingredients. Blend it all up, pour into the muffin tin and you’re done. With minimal dishes🙌

*Okay, side note from my 3rd round of making these thangs: I put it all in the blender, and after it mixed up it was sealed SO tight. My husband finally got it open, and I kid you not it exploded muffin batter EVERYWHERE. It was in the sink, on the blender, on the wall and on the FLOOR. I definitely overfilled the 24 oz blender cup. Those “max fill lines” are not just suggestions, y’all. It also made 12 muffins this round instead of my usual 9, so I think it depends on the size of the bananas.

A quick note about the protein I use: Nuzest. My stomach used to be really sensitive to protein drinks, like 10 minutes after I drank it I felt bloated and nauseous. Not good at all. Nuzest is the first protein I’ve found that doesn’t give my stomach that feeling, and doesn’t have that chalky taste. I recommend it to anyone who asks me about protein! I always have the vanilla and chocolate and hand and use it for post-workout smoothies and other baked goodies like this. You can check out their flavors here.

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