The best kind of muffins take just a few minutes to throw together, are made with all real food ingredients, and taste super yum as well. These beauties tick off all the right boxes!

Here is a great GO-TO banana muffin recipe that you probably have all the ingredients on hand for and works every time. Remember that the riper and mushier your bananas, the better, so wait until those old bananas are right brown and gross looking because that’s when they’re the sweetest and BEST for baking with! Although I have used spelt flour in this recipe, you could absolutely make them gluten-free by substituting your favourite gluten-free flour blend.

Potential add ins: chopped walnuts, raisins, and hemp hearts.

Easy Banana Bliss Muffins

Makes 12 regular sized muffins
3 overripe bananas
1 can full fat coconut milk
3 Tbsp coconut oil, melted
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup whole grain spelt flour
1 cup white spelt flour
1/2 cup coconut sugar
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup good quality dark chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 300F and line your muffin tin with silicone or parchment liners.
In a medium bowl, mash bananas with a fork and add in coconut milk & oil, and vanilla, whisking to combine thoroughly.
In another medium bowl, whisk together all dry ingredients. Pour in wet ingredients and combine with a spatula until smooth. Do not over-mix.
Distribute evenly among muffin tin and bake for 30 - 35 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

As ALWAYS, if you make these muffins, let me know how you like them and remember to SHARE the recipe! Bliss Muffins can make everyone blissful 😊

Inspired by an upcoming Hiking & Yoga Retreat, this cookie has so much endurance, I’m convinced it will get us up and over the Alpines with loads of energy and excitement for more adventure!
Over the years, the cookie has morphed into something very different from what it used to be. Growing up, cookies usually came in a box, were treats or rewards for good behaviour or for special occasions, and you would always grab handfuls of them (dip them in milk, maybe), and never just one. Sometimes we made cookies with white flour & white sugar, eggs, vanilla, etc. Other times, we bought that weird pre-made cookie dough that you could just cut up into rounds and throw in the oven (remember that?!) or we would eat it right out of the package with a spoon 🤢.

These days, as an adult, a Mom, an athlete, a Nutritionist, an advocate for Positive Body Image, I can’t remember the last time I bought cookies that came in a package, my son wouldn’t have a clue what I was talking about if I told him about the store bought cookie dough, and white flour or sugar doesn’t live in our home, EVER.
So cookies, to me, are an entirely different wonder!
When we have cookies lying around our house now, that same excitement takes place in the brain: we may even salivate slightly in our mouths, due to the lovely aromas, we might anticipate them being cool enough to eat, if they are baked, and we are sad when the batch is all gone. BUT it is rare for anyone to indulge in more than 1 cookie at a time. Because they are made with real food ingredients, are nutrient-dense, are high in carbohydrates, protein, AND fats, they are extremely satisfying to the senses, the belly, and the glucose receptors. This style of cookie can, not only, make you feel that sense of joy that you love, but ALSO fuel your body in just one delightful little package.
THIS COOKIE can get you through that 2 hr hike or afternoon power run, a trip to the gym, or a long afternoon at the office, I guarantee. It may even save your soul in the hours of after-school, inundated with tiny, hungry, raging monsters 😈!!

Bake Them.
Enjoy Them.
Share Them.

Banana Date Energy Cookies

Makes 12 large cookies
Ingredients:
3 ripe bananas
1 cup dates, pitted (if hard, soak in boiling water for 5 minutes & drain)
1/4 cup coconut oil
1 tsp pure vanilla
1 tbsp honey (optional)
1 tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp salt
2 cups rolled oats
2 Tbsp hemp hearts
¼ cup mini chocolate chips
¼ cup raisins

In your food processor, combine bananas, dates, coconut oil, vanilla, honey, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt, until well blended. Add oats to the processor and blend until combined, but not overly smooth (you want bits of oats for texture).
Remove mix from processor and stir in hemp hearts, chocolate chips, and raisins. Shape into rounds on a parchment lined cookie sheet and bake 350 for 20 - 25 minutes or until slightly browned around the edges.

As always, if you make these cookies & love them, please let me know AND share them around on social media! I appreciate your support as much as you appreciate yummy cookie recipes! 😋