Peanut Butter Muffins

Hello fall!

This is my absolute favorite time of year. The leaves are changing (kind of), the weather is finally cooling down, & everything is pumpkin flavored (literally everything).

As much as I LOVE pumpkin, believe me it is a lot, my first love is actually something else. Peanut butter. If I could put peanut butter on everything I would. It is my favorite thing to eat (sometimes just straight out of the jar). But I have done such an awesome job getting to my goal weight and now building muscle so I can no longer just allow myself to eat a whole jar of peanut butter while binge watching the office.

So like any other person who is craving delicious food I ventured on to pinterest. I stumbled upon this awesome picture & found this amazing blog (found here)! It looked amazing just the way it was, but almost too healthy to combat my sweet tooth too. So I changed some things up to make it both enjoyable for me & my husband. Because who doesn't enjoy peanut butter, protein, banana, chocolate chip muffins (name still pending lol).

The original recipe only allows 6 muffins to be made (I like to food prep so I doubled it). This is what I gathered up & put in a big mixing bowl.

4 Tbsp. Peanut Butter

1 Medium Banana Mashed

1/3 Cup Oat flower

2 Whole eggs

1 Cup Egg Whites (I eyeballed this)

2 Scoop Vanilla Protein (be careful when adding this because you do not want to dry out the muffins)

2 Tsp. Baking Powder

1 Pinch (the tiniest pinch) of brown sugar.

2 Tsp. chocolate chips

I mixed that all up in a bowl and whisked it until it was a smoothish consistency.

Then I poured the mixture into the cute little cupcake tin with my Halloween liners until about 2/3 full in each little liner. It should make about 12 muffins.

I baked them at 350 degrees for about 12 minutes (I forgot to set my timer so I had to do a lot of eyeballing on that too).

Overall it was pretty simple and it turned out delicious.

Because I am super health conscious I also calculated out the calories and macros for about ONE muffin:

Calories: 115

Protein: 9

Carbohydrates: 12

Fat: 5

Obviously these muffins don't replace a steak when it comes to protein, but they are SO filling and are going to be a great addition for that weird time between post-workout and lunch. Plus it helps me not want to eat an entire box of cookies, or a jar of peanut butter. 

Side note: next time I plan to add chia seeds. I've done this for peanut butter banana nut bread & it tastes amazing. I just wanted to add chocolate to this batch for Tyler. 

Enjoy!