Enjoy these healthy Strawberry Muffins during strawberry season as a healthy breakfast or snack. These muffins are gluten-free, clean-eating, and paleo.
Muffins are the best, aren't they? I always love a good muffin recipe, like my banana nut muffins and banana chocolate chip muffins, which are some of my most popular recipes on this blog. However, I like to use seasonal fruits to make muffins fresh and yummy during spring and summer.
Since we’re in the middle of strawberry season right now, strawberry muffins HAD to happen. Fortunately, healthy homemade muffins are a great use for ripe bananas and fresh seasonal strawberries. Plus they're gluten-free, sugar-free, paleo, and made with whole ingredients. No artificial flavors added - not even added sugar, thanks to the ripe bananas!
In This Post You'll Find:
- Watch Me Make Strawberry Muffins
- How To Make Healthy Strawberry Muffins
- Health Benefits of Strawberries
- Ingredient Notes
- How Long To Bake Strawberry Muffins
- Tips For Amazing Strawberry Muffins
- How Long Do Strawberry Muffins Last?
- More Healthy Muffin Recipes
- The Best Healthy Strawberry Muffins
- Can You Freeze Strawberry Muffins?
- Reviews
Watch Me Make Strawberry Muffins
Go ahead and imagine waking up to these fresh strawberry muffins for breakfast. Or taking a snack break during the afternoon and enjoying these healthy strawberry muffins? Soft, dense, and tender muffin PERFECTION. Just like my peach muffins, but with strawberries!!
How To Make Healthy Strawberry Muffins
One of the best things about muffins is how incredibly easy they are to make. No only do they require very little dishes to dirty, they are also a quick bread so they bake very fast. I also like them because they are practically no-fail.
Health Benefits of Strawberries
Yes, strawberries are yummy and in season right now, but did you know how good they are for you, too?
Strawberries can…
- improve immunity
- lower blood sugar
- lower blood pressure
- reduce inflammation
- improve skin health
How To Prepare Strawberries For Muffins
For these low sugar muffins…
- after washing the strawberries, remove the husk
- then dice the strawberries into evenly sized pieces
PRO TIP: While it's not ever going to be perfectly even, the same size helps the strawberries cook evenly in the oven.
Ingredient Notes
To make this strawberry muffin recipe healthy, I substituted specific ingredients with cleaner, more nutrient-dense ingredients that are clean, healthy, and good for you.
That means I replaced...
- all-purpose flour with almond flour (AKA almond meal)
- granulated sugar with pure maple syrup and mashed ripe bananas for sweetness
- butter with coconut oil and mashed banana
See how easy it is to make strawberry muffins healthy? And the taste will be just as good, if not better, trust me! I love how using almond meal is a 1:1 ratio with all-purpose flour so that makes these muffins even easier to remember how to make.
How Long To Bake Strawberry Muffins
Another great thing about these strawberry muffins is how easy and quick they are to bake. They'll need 18-20 minutes in your preheated oven. You'll know they're ready to remove from the oven...
- If the center of the muffins is firm
- If a toothpick or knife inserted comes out clean
- If the edges are slightly golden
When you can check off all these 3 things, your strawberry muffins are ready to remove from the oven. Once removed, let them set for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack to cool completely.
Tips For Amazing Strawberry Muffins
These 2 pro tips will make things even easier for you.
- For the best strawberry flavors, use fresh seasonal strawberries – they are sweet and juicy and pure perfection (you can use frozen strawberries but the taste won’t be quite the same and the strawberry muffins will turn out a little more mushy)
- Add diced strawberries to the top of the muffin batter after you poured the batter to the muffin tin – this looks very cool, your muffins will look like they were baked by a professional baker BUT doing this also adds moisture and we all know moist muffins are the best muffins. Plus extra strawberry flavor – another win!
How Long Do Strawberry Muffins Last?
What do you mean how long do muffins last? You don’t plan to eat them immediately??? Ha - just kidding! I recommend making a double batch if you want to store strawberry muffins for later because the first one will disappear in just a few minutes. These strawberry muffins are no joke! They are too tasty to be ignored.
How To Store Strawberry Muffins
At room temperature, these strawberry muffins last for a day or two if stored properly in airtight containers. To maximize shelf life, you can store these paleo strawberry muffins in the fridge, wrapped in plastic foil or in airtight bags. They will last for up to a week like this.
For mor eon my favorite air-tight containers, check out my Ultimate Guide To The Best Meal Prep Containers.
More Healthy Muffin Recipes
One muffin recipe is never enough. I have something chocolatey, something with Fall flavors, and more well-loved classics from the blog listed below.
The Best Healthy Strawberry Muffins
Equipment
- muffin tin
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Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups almond flour
- 1 scoop vanilla protein
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- 4 eggs
- 2 bananas, mashed (to yield ¾ cup)
- 3 tablespoon pure maple syrup
- 2 tablespoon coconut oil, melted, plus more to grease muffin tin
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups fresh strawberries, diced (plus more to top muffins)
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and grease a muffin tin with coconut oil.*
- Then prep strawberries - remove the husk and then dice them into evenly sized pieces. Set them aside while prepping the batter.
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine the almond flour, baking soda, protein-powder, and sea salt, and whisk together. Set aside.
- In another mixing bowl, mash a couple of ripe bananas (roughly ¾ cup) until it’s smooth.
- Next, add the eggs, pure maple syrup, melted coconut oil, and vanilla. Mix until thoroughly combined.
- Add in the dry ingredients we mixed earlier, and mix to combine.
- Now, add in the diced strawberries, and then fold them into the mixture.
- Using a large spoon, pour the muffin batter into the muffin tin, filling each about ⅔ of the way full.
- Add a few more diced strawberries to the top.
- Now, transfer to the oven and bake for 18-20 minutes, or until the muffins are firm in the center and lightly golden edges and a toothpick or knife inserted comes out clean.
- Remove and let set for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack. Then, transfer them carefully to a cooling rack to come to room temperature.
Video
Notes
- If you’d prefer not to add the extra oil, you could also use muffin liners, but I’ve never really been a fan of them, and these muffins won’t stick to the pan if it’s greased.
- Flax eggs can be substituted for real eggs.
Nutrition
Can You Freeze Strawberry Muffins?
Yes, you can totally freeze these strawberry muffins tp enjoy some later day when ya just feel like a strawberry muffin. They also make great grab and go meal prepped breakfast options!
How To Freeze Muffins
- Wrap strawberry muffins in aluminum foil or plastic wrap or place them in heavy-duty freezer bags.
- Freeze.
Frozen, they will last for 3-4 months.
Mimi Chep
Hi,
These look delicious but I wanted to know if I could use flax eggs instead. Would they come out okay. Or one egg and 2 flax eggs.
Thank you.
Aditi Kadur
Can this be made with frozen strawberries instead of fresh? I dont get fresh strawberries all year round in India.
Lacey Baier
Yes, you can totally use frozen strawberries.
Amy
Anything Keto Friendly that could be swapped for the bananas?
Lacey Baier
Sweet potatoes, unsweetened applesauce or pumpkin puree - they'll change the flavor some, but not horribly.
inde dutton
I am anxious to make this muffin using fresh ingredients! I am trying to keep my A1c down and I wonder if there is a substitute for the maple syrup in the recipe?
thanks!
Lacey Baier
You could swap with monkfruit extract or stevia extract to keep the total sugar levels down.