I love making muffins with a cup of tea as a midday snack. These nutty date muffins are delicious and the banana icing is definitely the best part.

That’s not it.

Both the muffin and icing are actually healthy. I promise they’re still delicious.

Who knew that you could make healthy icing with only three ingredients?! Coconut butter, vanilla extract, and bananas. That’s it. You will not be able to eat just one. The most difficult part of this recipe is patiently spreading the icing on the muffins without trying to eat them before. Can you tell I’ve experienced this?

Nutty Date Muffins with Banana Icing

Author: Heather Love

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Ingredients

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¼ cup coconut flour
1 tsp cinnamon
½ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp ginger
1 tsp baking powder

Wet Ingredients

1/3 cup pitted dates, chopped
¼ cup walnuts or cashews
3 eggs
¼ cup maple syrup
¼ cup melted coconut oil
1 tsp vanilla extract

Banana icing

¼ cup raw coconut butter
1 banana (cut off a small section and thinly slice to top your muffins)
1 tsp vanilla extract
desiccated coconut for topping (optional)

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F
Stir dry ingredients in a large bowl
Mix wet ingredients + walnuts in a food processor until it is a creamy, wet consistency
Stir your wet and dry ingredients together in your dry ingredients bowl
Grease muffins tins with coconut oil & add your batter
Bake for 18-20 minutes. I usually start checking mine at 12 minutes with a toothpick, just to make sure they’re not overcooking.
Rinse out your food processor to make the icing
Simply add the icing ingredients to the food processor and mix until it starts to look creamy and smooth like icing, this will take a few minutes
When your muffins are done baking, cover them with the sweet banana icing and top with slices of banana or coconut if you like

Notes

This specific recipe requires a food processor.

Nutrition

Serving Size: Makes 6 large muffins