Banana, apple and cacao mini muffins - Real Recipes from Mums

Serves 3
Makes 25
30 minutes
Difficulty Easy
8 Ingredients

These little muffins LOOK like chocolate muffins but taste like banana and apple bread. Great for fussy eaters who are lured into trying by the resemblance of chocolate cake!

Ingredients (serves 3 | makes 25 Mini muffins)

1 Cup Self Raising Flour
1/2 Cup Cacao Powder
1 Cup Caster Sugar
125 ml Apple Puree or 1 whole finely grated apple
1 Cup Mashed Banana
50g Melted Butter
60 mls milk
1 Egg lightly beaten

Method

Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan-forced and grease a mini muffin pan or mini muffin patty cases.
Sift flour and cacao powder into a mixing bowl. Stir in sugar. Add your butter, egg, milk, apple and banana. Stir until combined.
Pour into your prepared pan and bake for approx 15 Minutes.

Notes

You can half the amount of sugar if you like.

32 Comments
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- - meedee said
  - 23 May 2021
    8:30 am
Yummy. Things like this popped in the microwave for a few seconds just to warm and then served with a tablesppon of icecream. Perfect dessert

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- - mom111059 said
  - 06 Jul 2017
    4:24 pm
Great recipe. Thank you for sharing

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- - mom112023 said
  - 16 Apr 2017
    3:29 pm
Thanks for the recipe. Looks good.

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- - mom19782016 said
  - 29 May 2016
    8:48 pm
Reckon you could substitute honey or rice malt syrup for the caster sugar. Bet this tastes lovely!
- Kate Shelby Author: Amazing Beautiful Individual replied
  
  31 May 2016 , 3:13 pm
  Yes or what you can do is scratch the sugar completely and use Cacao Syrup. Not as easy to find in stores but its also quite sweet.
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- - serotonin said
  - 26 May 2016
    9:17 am
These look scrumptious and healthy enough to not worry if they get scoffed quickly. Mmm.

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- - reread said
  - 26 May 2016
    7:34 am
mimi anything is usually a winner in our house

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- - mom111362 said
  - 26 May 2016
    12:59 am
these look very good, thankyou

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- - ella12 said
  - 25 May 2016
    4:32 pm
They look very yummy, thanks for sharing.

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- - mom64210 said
  - 25 May 2016
    1:02 pm
How much milk? No mention in the ingredients but it says it in the method!
- Kate Shelby Author: Amazing Beautiful Individual replied
  
  25 May 2016 , 2:14 pm
  60mls of milk.
  
  I’ve been having problems when ui upload my recipes. Some of the fields are dissapearing after I add a picture.
  - Kate Shelby Author: Amazing Beautiful Individual replied
    
    25 May 2016 , 2:20 pm
    
    P.S. They will fix it. Just might take some time
  - mom64210 replied
    
    25 May 2016 , 10:43 pm
    
    Thank you!
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- - mom160421 said
  - 25 May 2016
    10:56 am
They look delicious. What a great combination of ingredients.

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- - Nas01 said
  - 25 May 2016
    10:46 am
Great recipe. These look so good. Thanks for sharing

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- - rovermum said
  - 25 May 2016
    10:27 am
I love these little mini muffins. Great ingredients. Definitely trying these ones.

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- - rachelvk said
  - 25 May 2016
    9:24 am
These look very yummy. I might experiment with using honey to try and reduce the sugar content a touch!
- Kate Shelby Author: Amazing Beautiful Individual replied
  
  25 May 2016 , 12:45 pm
  You could use coconut sugar too which is a little better than caster sugar.
  
  It works out approx 10mg of sugar per muffin. So even if you halved the sugar (5mg per muffin) its an improvement.
  - mom64210 replied
    
    25 May 2016 , 1:05 pm
    
    1/2 cup sugar works fine with very ripe bananas!
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- - mum4107 said
  - 25 May 2016
    5:17 am
They look great.
Nothing wrong with the occasional sweet treat
- Kate Shelby Author: Amazing Beautiful Individual replied
  
  25 May 2016 , 12:52 pm
  Too true! They may be sugary but you know exactly what’s in them! No anti caking agents. No preservatives. No extra numbers and colors you can’t recognize. No modified ingredients. Better than a packaged cake from the shop which is often filled with just as much sugar AND extra nasties.
  - mom93821 replied
    
    07 Jul 2016 , 5:54 pm
    
    Love sweet treats and these muffins sound and look delish!
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- - mom134803 said
  - 25 May 2016
    2:46 am
A full cup of sugar on 1 cup of flour…that’s a lot !!
- Kate Shelby Author: Amazing Beautiful Individual replied
  
  25 May 2016 , 12:47 pm
  Across 25 Muffins its less sugar than a box of chocolate cupcakes from Woolworths.
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- - deb_gs said
  - 24 May 2016
    11:05 pm
I can see that fussy eaters would embrace this -it has a lot of sweet tasting ingredients in it!

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- - Kuks said
  - 24 May 2016
    8:13 pm
Haha it might lure my kids in to try it but I’m not sure they’ll eat more than a bite… A bit of a gamble for me

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- - mom81879 said
  - 24 May 2016
    7:16 pm
Disappointed to see sugar in this otherwise healthy and delicious looking recipe
- Kate Shelby Author: Amazing Beautiful Individual replied
  
  24 May 2016 , 9:17 pm
  Sorry you aren’t happy with the sugar. In my home we eat sugar in moderation. I allow the occasional treat. Which is why I use small cases for the muffins. I’m sure there is a low sugar section on this website – Maybe you would be less disappointed with those.
  - mom93821 replied
    
    08 Jul 2016 , 5:08 am
    
    I agree – as treats they are perfect and I love treats – thanks.
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- - sharna_booth_weinrowski said
  - 24 May 2016
    6:41 pm
This is a great recipe! I will be trying this on the weekend!

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- - youngoldlady said
  - 24 May 2016
    5:09 pm
Great for tricking my grand daughter who is into anything that looks like cake. She will eat these and can also make these GF for my younger children. Great to have on hand.

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