Gluten-Free Coconut Flour Banana Muffins (Paleo)

Today’s March Muffin Madness recipe is Gluten-Free Coconut Flour Banana Muffins.

Happy Easter and welcome to March Muffin Madness (MMM) once again, folks! This is the best March Madness; don’t you agree? It’s full of gluten-free muffin recipes, cookbooks, guidebooks, meal plans, subscriptions, food products that you need and love, and—this might be the best part—fabulous kitchen equipment! After all, the grand prize is a Blendtec!

Gluten-Free Coconut Flour Banana Muffins from GAPS Diet Journey

Starlene of GAPS Diet Journey is sharing Gluten-Free Coconut Flour Banana Muffins (Paleo). Starlene doesn’t actually call them “paleo,” but they do fit the requirements for paleo, which means they’re gluten free, grain free, dairy free, and refined sugar free. As Starlene shares GAPS diet-compliant recipes on her blog, you won’t be surprised that this recipe is also suitable for those on the GAPS diet. Last, these muffins are nut free!

Starlene’s description of these muffins is to the point: “This is one of my favorites, Banana Muffins. So easy to make, always turn out perfect and everyone loves them!” The only thing left is the making and enjoying of these muffins!

Starlene has some other muffin recipes you must check out as well.

~ Carrot Cake Muffins,

~ Pumpkin Spice Muffins with Pumpkin Spice Buttercream Frosting,

and don’t forget the muffins recipe that she shared for the last MMM event:

~ Bacon Muffins (these are brilliant—a complete meal, which include veggies, in a muffin!)

There are some more recipes at GAPS Diet Journey that you will definitely want to see: Pumpkin Poppers, Silky Chocolate Pie in a Chocolate Crust, Cinnamon Mules, How to Make Coconut Yogurt—Thick, Creamy, and Delicious, and Cinnamon Swirl Bread (grain free).

Please take a moment to see all the daily prizes below the recipe. They are Starlene’s cookbooks from her ongoing coconut flour ebook series! Be sure to enter the drawing for the overall/grand prize giveaway and please remember that every comment on every post is an entry!

Gluten-Free Coconut Flour Banana Muffins Recipe

Yield: 12 muffins

Gluten-Free Coconut Flour Banana Muffins (Paleo)

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These light and fluffy banana nut muffins can be eaten with breakfast or served as dessert.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup mashed banana
• ⅓ cup honey
• ½ cup melted coconut oil (I use Tropical Traditions Gold Label Organic Virgin Coconut Oil)
• 6 whole large eggs
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ½ cup coconut flour, packed (82 grams) (I use Tropical Traditions brand)
• 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Place cupcake papers into muffin tins, or grease liberally and dust using coconut flour, or currently I highly recommend using silicone muffin cups. They are FABULOUS!
3. In a mixing bowl, mash bananas until creamy, stir in honey. Melt coconut oil and whisk in with bananas and honey. Add eggs and blend using a hand mixer or whisk. Add salt, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
4. Measure coconut flour into a ½ cup measuring utensil. Pack flour into cup firmly. Use a back side of a knife to cut across the top of the measuring utensil so that your measurements is exactly ½ cup. Sift flour to remove any lumps.
5. Mix half of the coconut flour in with the wet ingredients. Allow to sit for two minutes to give the coconut flour time to absorb. You are looking for a consistency of mashed potatoes. If the mixture is very runny, add the rest of the coconut flour. Again allow batter to sit for 2 minutes. Coconut flour is tricky sometimes. It is better to add the coconut flour in small increments than to end up with your batter being too dry.
6. Add vinegar to batter and blend quickly.
7. Fill 12 cupcake forms (slightly under filled). Bake for 25 minutes or until lightly browned on top and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

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Today’s Daily Giveaway

Update: These giveaways are all closed.

Starlene is a self-taught expert on using coconut flour, which is a grain-free and nut-free flour used for paleo, GAPS, and other special diets.

She says: “Coconut flour is VERY UNIQUE when compared to other flours; however, you CAN discover how to work with coconut flour and you will be successful once you have all my tips and tricks for baking with coconut flour.”

Note that she uses eggs in her coconut flour baking; only a few of her recipes will work with flax gel eggs or egg substitutes. All of her recipes, including today’s Banana Muffins recipe, are made using Tropical Traditions organic coconut flour. Thanks to Starlene for sponsoring this giveaway of her cookbooks! She also sponsored the giveaway of the silicone baking cups earlier in MMM.

~ Mastering the Art of Baking with Coconut Flour (1 winner)

~ Baker’s Dozen Sweet Quick Breads Volume 1 (1 winner),

 ~ Baker’s Dozen Pumpkin Treats Volume 2 (1 winner),

~ Baker’s Dozen Holiday Breads Volume 3 (1 winner), and

~ Baker’s Dozen Chocolate Treats Volume 4 (1 winner)

Grand Prize Giveaway (1 winner for each)

Be sure to enter the overall/grand prize giveaway at the bottom of this post and come back tomorrow for another terrific gluten-free muffin recipe and another daily giveaway. Again, remember that commenting on every post during the MMM event gives you additional entries into the grand prize drawing, which includes the following, so spread the comment love here and on participating posts!

~ 1/2 gallon Hidden Springs Vermont organic maple syrup,

~ USA Bakeware 12-cup muffin pan,

~ Kettle & Fire bone broth (thanks to the folks at Kettle & Fire!),

~ 5-lb bag of Honeyville almond flour, 

~ Cuisinart ice cream maker,

~ Paderno World Cuisine vegetable slicer/spiralizer,

~ Crockpot casserole slow cooker,

~ Instant Pot pressure cooker, and

~ Blendtec Designer 625 with Wildside+ jar and Twister jar—this is our grand prize! It’s sponsored by the generous folks at Blendtec. The winner even gets to choose the color of their high-speed blender/all-in-one appliance

You can see the up-to-date listing of daily prizes and the complete lineup of bloggers and recipes in the kickoff post here.

Originally published March 27, 2016; updated March 15, 2025.

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