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Healthy, quick breakfasts are easy.
Today I bring you moist, soft strawberry banana muffins that are completely FAT FREE and only 90 calories each. And yet, they are SO flavorful. The secret: mashed bananas, applesauce, and fresh sweet strawberries.
I love the portion control of muffins. Grabbing a couple while I’m out the door to the office is just so much easier than taking the time to pour cereal and milk.
I’m not even sure how something fat free could taste so flavorful, but these truly do!
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makes 9-10 muffins
Ingredients
- 1 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 medium banana, divided (mash 1/2 and slice the other half into very thin slices)
- 1/4 cup apple sauce
- 1 egg white, beaten
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup diced strawberries
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Spray muffin tray with cooking spray. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, stir to combine the flour, sugars, baking soda, & cinnamon. Slice the banana in half and mash 1st half with a fork and cut 2nd half into thin slices (set these aside). Add the mashed banana to the dry ingredients and stir. Add the applesauce, beaten egg white, vanilla and stir until just combined. Do NOT overmix.
- Gently fold in the strawberries and banana slices. Pour batter into muffin tray, filling about 2/3 of the way up. Bake for 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Muffins stay fresh and soft up to 7 days in an airtight container. Muffins freeze well.
Notes
Adapted from Averie Cooks
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You may enjoy a few of my other healthy recipes as well 
Skinny Strawberry Chocolate Chip Muffins
Skinny Chocolate Banana Fudge Muffins
Single Serving Chocolate Chip Muffin
Sky High Apple Pie Muffins (low fat, whole wheat)
Peanut Butter Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Bars
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They look delish! Glad my recipe worked for you.
And no oil whatsever…that’s great that it worked! I always worry when cooking with zero fat, no butter/no oil, that it won’t stick together well and will get too crumbly OR will stick to the muffin pan/bread pan. But you pulled it off! YUM!
thank you, Averie! I was a tad nervous how they’d turn out too, but they ended up being SO insanely moist and they taste exactly how you describe your version with fat. i was VERY pleasantly surprised. i also baked up a version of your oreo stuffed brownies w/ vanilla buttercream this weekend. can’t wait to share! and yes, i AM your biggest fan.
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Wow! thank you so much. This made my day!
How could I not love these! The combo of strawberry and banana is so yummy! Plus they’re healthy so I can eat more of them without worrying about my muffin top.
hahaha! reeni you are too funny. i love that they’re healthy too
Okay wow, I JUST made this same recipe over the weekend, in bread form though. Great minds think alike.
And I love that you made it into muffins. They’re so much more fun to eat!
great minds do think alike.
i’m sure the bread was amazing!
This really look delicious and healthy. Thanks for sharing!
you’re welcome!
These muffins are perfection – natural sweetener and beautiful flavours
Love them!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
agreed!
They don’t sound like my cup of tea – so to speak – but I bet they’re quite tasty….
These look amazing too!
I am falling in love with your blog.
thank you SO much for checking my blog out
Okay, I had to print these out as soon as I saw them!! My friend is going to be very happy when I make these for him!!!
love hearing that, thank you!
Just used myfitnesspal.com to calculate the recipe. These are about 90 calories each! Yay!!
Forgot to add that I did change the AP flour to whole wheat, but that’s all I changed.
that’s it??? thanks Jamie! I’ve never used that before. I’m going to edit the post to include that. you are awesome!
So I made these muffins yesterday after seeing them on your blog and holy moly, they were delicious. I had just gotten a big thing of strawberries the other day at Costco and this recipe was definitely an awesome way to use some of them up. Thanks so much for the great idea! I love that they’re totally fat free but still incrediby moist
i’m SO gad to hear it. one bite, and i honestly could not believe they were fat free either.
So I ended up with both strawberries and bananas that needed to be used, lucky for me you posted this recipe and my problem was solved. Between the apple sauce, bananas and strawberries, I also got the ‘gooey’ factor, totally awesome.
Thanks for posting it, I will defiantly be re-blogging this
the *gooey* factor is what makes these muffins! SO glad you enjoyed them
Hiya i was interested in making these and wondering when you say beaten egg white do you mean until it is white and stiff?
Hey Nadia. No, not beaten until white and stiff. Just lightly beaten. Hope you enjoy them!
I feel silly asking but do you suppose I could substitute in plain greek Yogurt? I don’t have any apple sauce.
Chelsea – I’m not sure how they would turn out, but it’s worth a shot! You may always use canola oil in place of applesauce as well.
i made these but traded the strawberry for mango and they tasted fantastic, thanks so much for the healthy recipe!!
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That sounds INCREDIBLE! I’m going to have to try that next time!! Thanks for letting me know.
I loooove how healthy and yummy these look! Do you think it would make a drastic difference if I used all brown sugar or all white sugar instead of a combo?
I don’t think it would make a huge difference at all, Erika! Let me know how they turn out.
Mmm these are in the oven now! Do you think I can freeze them once baked? I am a cooking novice!!
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Definitely! I froze a couple of them and they were fine. I hope you enjoy! Thanks Laura
these look absolutely delicious, however I am a bit confused to what the wet ingredient is? Is the 1/4 apple sauce enough to make the batter pourable?
The wet ingredients are the egg white, 1/2 mashed banana, vanilla, and applesauce. Ie is a small recipe, so yes this is enough wet ingredients. No muffin batter should ever be pourable. It is thick. Thank you Jessica! LEt me know if you make them
I love all your recipes…thanks for sharing!
Thank you Bing!
okay okay, this recipe got me before the peanut butter ones. I felt less guilty because it was fruit.
I only changed the flour to whole wheat and the sugar to all dark brown sugar. They are SO good. My husband and stepdaughter love them too!
(This was my first time making anything with whole wheat flour too.. so I was even more excited haha)
Woo hoo! So glad you liked these Alisha! I have got to make them again. And it’s good to know they turn out well with WW flour & brown sugar. I’m trying that next! You go girl.
Great recipe Sally! The weekend was miserable in London so I baked these to cheer me up. It worked like a charm! I even mentioned it on my blog!
http://afrenchyinthecity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-sunday-muffin-recipe.html
I will definitely try some of your other recipes!
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Thanks Claire! I will go check them out now.
I featured your Strawberry Banana Muffins on my blog! They are wonderful – definitely a recipe to keep.
I featured your Strawberry Banana Muffins on my blog! They are wonderful – definitely a recipe to keep. http://www.allisonskinnyjeans.com
Would you happen to know the weight watcher points per muffin?
Hi Leighann, I do not – I am not familiar with their points system at all. Sorry!
WOW these are great!! My boyfriend always hates when I cook “healthy” but these he loved!!!
That’s so great to hear Emily! I don’t even think these taste healthy!
Oh Sally, I’m addicted to your recipes
After the peanut butter swirl brownies and the peanut. banana Chocolate oatmeal Bars (yummmmm!) today I made these…. Delicious! So so good! I love your healthy recipes, thank you!
Hi Biddy! So glad to hear all of that. You love my healthy recipes which is amazing to hear. They aren’t as popular as the decadent stuff. But I certainly love making them. Thanks for letting me know!
Just made these and they are INCREDIBLE!! So super tasty!
Nice! So glad to hear it. Thanks for reporting back about them!
MyFitnessPal, for me, said 101 calories each, but they’re still delicious either way. I made a batch tonight to pop in the freezer for breakfast next week!
Hi Sally!
I love your website! I made these today and let’s just say, they didn’t last long. The muffin man aka my dad basically ate them all. I better start the next batch!
Hey Zoe! (Love your name!) – I adore these muffins. And aren’t they so easy to make! So glad you loved them!
Has anyone tried using white whole wheat flour instead of all purpose?
yep! I do it all the time. enjoy!
Do you use Regular or unsweetened applesauce?
unsweetened
Hi,
I would like to try this recipe with Gluten free flour. Can I replace the wheat with a gluten free mix for same measurement, or will I need to alter the recipe?
Hi Anu. I wish I could help, but I have no experience with GF baking or GF flours. I don’t want to give you any wrong information. I would research how to best replace AP flour with a GF flour.
These look really good! I have a question though all purpose flour is 100 calories serving size 1/4 cups and the recipe calls for 1 1/4 cups so how are the calories so low it doesn’t make sense to me…?
All of the ingredients I used together equal 900 calories, divided by 10 = 90.
Hahaha o geez maybe I should’ve thought a little harder now I feel like a dummy … Haha well Thank you I am going to be making these in a few minutes. I made your skinny blueberry and banana muffin recipe and we all loved them. I added raspberries to the blueberry batch as well yummy! So, I know everyone will love these thanks again!
Just made these this morning, they were soooo goooood !!
I didn’t have AP flour but I used white whole wheat and it still worked yay!
So glad to hear that, Michelle! I need to make these again ASAP.
If I were to use natural sweetened applesauce would I omit any white sugar?
Hi MoMo- the unsweetened applesauce is still naturally sweet from the apples. That is the kind of applesauce used in this recipe. I do not recommend leaving the sugar out unless you don’t want these sweet at all.
First off, I love your blog- you have great recipes and are creative and funny! I also love these strawberry banana muffins! I even have used them as “cupcakes” – I was asked to bring a dessert to dinner at a friends, so I made these as cupcakes with a white frosting made with coconut oil. They were so good and such a hit…especially when I told everyone afterward that the “cupcake” (minus the frosting) was fat free and low calorie!
Thank you!
I love these muffins! And the fact that you disguised them as cupcakes. That’s pretty genius. Your frosting sounds like it would be incredible!
Since substituting whole-wheat flour for white may make the muffins somewhat dry or heavy, how about also substituting honey or honey-and-molasses for the sugars?
Give it a try – although these muffins are only 90 calories each as is. And the whole wheat flour won’t make these muffins dry; I use it all the time for this recipe.
These are delicious — thank you!
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