How to make healthy muffins without sugar?
It's easy to replace the sugar in your homemade muffins with dried fruit, especially dates, and fresh fruit, especially ripe banana. To make delicious date muffins without sugar, you will need:
- 60 grams of pitted dates
- 22.5 centilitres of milk
- 12 centiliters of sunflower oil
- 2 ripe bananas
- 2 eggs
- 430 grams of flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 pinch of ground ginger
- 1 pinch of cinnamon
To make your sugar-free date muffins, start by preheating your oven to 180 ° C. In a saucepan, put the dates and the milk. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, mash the dates with a potato masher. Add the oil and mix. Mash the bananas with a fork and add them to the mixture. Then mix the dry ingredients in a bowl. In the warm date mixture, add the eggs and mix thoroughly. Incorporate the dry ingredients and mix until you get a homogeneous mixture. Fill your muffin cups to the brim. Bake 25 minutes and let cool to taste.
Our recipe for sugar-free blueberry muffins
The delicious recipe for sugar-free blueberry muffins will ask you:
- 150 grams of white flour
- 50 grams of whole flour
- 1 and a half tablespoons of baking powder
- 75 grams of butter
- 2 teaspoons of cinnamon
- 75 grams of applesauce made without sugar (just cook the apples with a little water)
- 100 grams of plain yogurt
- 10 centilitres of milk
- Vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 150 grams of blueberries
- 1 pinch of salt
Preheat your oven to 200 ° C. In a large bowl, pour the flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Mix. Melt the butter. Add the vanilla extract, butter, milk, yogurt, egg and applesauce to the flours. Mix until you get a homogeneous device. Add the blueberries and mix again. Fill your muffin tins about two-thirds full. Bake for 30 minutes: your muffins should be nicely browned out of the oven. Let cool before tasting.
Lightened, our sugar-free, butter-free muffin recipe
If you don't have time to prepare tasty lemon curd muffins (or they are a little too full of sugar for your taste), let yourself be tempted by sugar-free and butter-free muffins, perfect for the snack break! You need :
- 120 grams of wholemeal flour
- 20 grams of oatmeal
- 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon of liquid honey
- 1 egg
- 6 centilitres of vegetable milk
- 55 grams of unsweetened applesauce
- 75 grams of banana
- Vanilla extract
To make these sugarless and butterless muffins, preheat your oven to 200 ° C. In a bowl, mix the flour, cinnamon, baking powder and baking soda. Beat the egg. Mash the banana with a fork. Add the chocolate chips, oatmeal (reserve 2 teaspoons of flakes for decoration if desired), egg, vegetable milk, compote, banana, vanilla extract to the dry ingredients . Mix well. Fill muffin cups with this dough. Arrange the oats you have reserved for decoration. Bake for 20 minutes. Drizzle the muffins with liquid honey and bake again for 5-10 minutes. Let cool before tasting.
Our tips for making sugar-free cakes
As in the previous recipe, if you want to concoct tasty desserts without sugar, you just have to replace the sugar with certain ingredients, for example:
- fruits or fruit coulis, which naturally sweeten pastries;
- honey ;
- maple or agave syrups;
- stevia;
- spices
- natural flavors
Read also :
⋙ Sugar-free diet: which foods to eat to consume less sugar on a daily basis?
⋙ Sugar-free ice cream: our tips and good recipes for success with or without an ice cream maker
⋙ Icing without icing sugar: how to do it?