Healthy Banana, Honey and Date Scone Muffins
I absolutely LOVE scones! And I absolutely LOVE muffins! I mean, who doesn’t?
So, I merged them together and recreated them into a moist muffin without losing the scone taste! AND! They’re HEALTHY!
Yields 18 LARGE muffins
160 calories per muffin
Weight Watchers: 3 ProPoints | PointsPlus each!
Perfect with a cup of your favourite morning tea or coffee…and Oprah reruns.
Healthy Banana, Honey and Date Scone Muffins
Weight Watchers: 3pp per muffin!
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Serves: 18 large muffins
Ingredients
- 2 cups wholemeal self raising flour (or all purpose flour)
- 2 cups rolled oats
- ½ cup almond meal
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 3 tablespoons natural sweetener/sugar of choice
- 2 teaspoons baking powder (use 1 tablespoon of baking powder if using all purpose flour)
- 2 large ripe bananas
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons (40g) softened light butter or coconut oil
- 1 egg
- ½ cup low fat greek yoghurt
- ½ cup unsweetened almond milk
- 6 chopped fresh dates
- 2 tablespoons honey (extra for drizzling)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C. Spray a muffin tray with coconut oil cooking spray.
- Place into a food processor flour, rolled oats and almond meal and process for approx 2 minutes.
- When oats are finely ground, add the salt, sweetener/sugar and baking powder, and process again for 1 more minute.
- In a separate bowl, mash bananas and add the honey, butter, egg, yoghurt and milk until combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet, and gently mix with a wooden spoon until all ingredients are mixed through. Do not over beat!
- Fold in dates.
- Bake in preheated oven for 12-15 minutes or until golden and toothpick inserted into the centre of a muffin comes out clean.
- Drizzle the tops with honey.
- Serve warm
Nutrition
Calories: 160kcal
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Stephanie Batson says
where can I find wholemeal self raising flour in the US?
Cafe Delites says
Hi!
You can substitute with wholewheat all purpose or pastry flour. Just add an extra 2 teaspoons baking powder and it should be fine ❤️❤️