Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins
on Sep 26, 2021, Updated Jan 27, 2024
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These peanut butter and jelly muffins are a fun, baby-friendly take on the classic PB&J. They are great for batch baking and freezer-friendly!
My boys love berries, so anything that involves berries in any way, shape, or form will immediately catch their eyes. These little muffins are peanut butter flavored with a berry placed in the center of each one for the “jelly.” They are great to serve for breakfast or just as a snack!
If you love these peanut butter muffins, you’ll also love these simple 4-ingredient peanut butter cookies!
Table of Contents
What You’ll Need
Here is what you’ll need to make these peanut butter and jelly muffins:
- Bananas: The main source of sweetness for these muffins. Try to use bananas that are very ripe with several brown spots. The riper the bananas, the sweeter the muffins!
- Peanut Butter: Adds healthy fats, moisture, and taste to these muffins. You may replace the peanut butter with a nut-free alternative.
- Egg: Used as a binder to help hold the pancakes together.
- Oat Flour: I love baking with rolled oats as they are so nutritious! Gluten-free rolled oats make these muffins gluten-free. You can purchase oat flour separately, but I always make my own by just blending up rolled oats!
- Baking Powder: Use as a leavening agent for the muffins.
- Cinnamon: For added flavor and enhancing the natural sweetness of the muffins.
- Salt: A small amount used to balance the flavors in the muffins.
- Blueberries: For slight added sweetness to the muffins. These blueberries serve as the “jelly” for these peanut butter and jelly muffins!
See the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Recipe Substitutions & Additions
- Peanut butter: You may replace the peanut butter with equal parts of a seed-based butter.
- Eggs: You may replace the egg with a flax egg. To make a flax egg, combine 3 tablespoons of water with 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseed. Let the mixture sit in the fridge for about 15 minutes until it forms a gel-like texture.
- Oat flour: You may replace the oat flour with all-purpose flour or whole wheat flour.
- Salt: The salt is an optional ingredient and may be omitted. I find that including it helps preserve the freshness of the muffins at room temperature, but it is not needed.
- Blueberries: The blueberries may be replaced with raspberries or strawberries.
Step By Step Instructions
STEP 1: Stir together the oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl and set aside (Image 1).
STEP 2: Blend together the banana, peanut butter, and egg until smooth (Image 2).
STEP 3: Pour the banana mixture over the dry ingredients and stir until combined (Image 3).
STEP 4: Pour batter into a mini muffin pan and place one blueberry into the center of each mini muffin (Image 4). Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes.
Storage Instructions
Let the muffins completely cool and store them in an airtight container for up to 2 days at room temperature or up to 5 days in the fridge. To freeze, store in a freezer-safe Ziploc bag once cooled for up to 3 months. To reheat, simply microwave the muffins for 20-30 seconds, or until warmed through!
Tips For Success
- This recipe makes 20 mini muffins. You may make regular-sized muffins by adding a few more minutes to the total bake time.
- You may use premade oat flour, or make your own by blending old-fashioned rolled oats into a flour.
- I like to use a silicone muffin pan to bake these muffins as they pop out easily without any sticking. If using a regular mini muffin pan, be sure to coat with a cooking spray beforehand.
- Use very ripe bananas with several brown spots. The riper the bananas, the sweeter the muffins.
- You can omit the berries altogether and just make mini peanut butter muffins!
Other Peanut Butter Recipes You’ll Love
Peanut Butter Oatmeal Pancakes (PB & J Pancakes)
Peanut Butter Banana Cake (Flourless)
Banana Peanut Butter Bars
If you tried these Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins please leave a ⭐ star rating and let me know how it went in the comments below! I love hearing from you!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 medium overripe bananas
- ⅓ cup smooth peanut butter
- 1 egg
- ½ cup oat flour
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp salt
- 20 blueberries
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).
- Stir together the oat flour, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl and set aside.
- Blend together the banana, peanut butter, and egg until smooth.
- Pour the banana mixture over the dry ingredients and stir until combined.
- Pour batter into a mini muffin pan and place one blueberry into the center of each mini muffin. Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Notes
- This recipe makes 20 mini muffins. You may make regular-sized muffins by adding a few more minutes to the total bake time.
- You may use premade oat flour, or make your own by blending old-fashioned rolled oats into a flour.
- I like to use a silicone muffin pan to bake these muffins as they pop out easily without any sticking. If using a regular mini muffin pan, be sure to coat with a cooking spray beforehand.
- Use very ripe bananas with several brown spots. The riper the bananas, the sweeter the muffins.
- You can omit the berries altogether and just make mini peanut butter muffins!
This is a family favorite. It’s one of my batch breakfast items I make and freeze – keeps well and reheats great. A go-to recipe when my bananas start getting too ripe!
Yum yum! These were great for my 8-month-old, 2.5 year-old, and me! I omitted the salt, and baked everything else as directed. Mine took 17 minutes at 350.
I’m so glad that you both enjoyed these muffins!😊
I make these ALL THE TIME! So easy and so delicious! I have been trying to do more gluten free and dairy free, so this is the perfect recipe to make breakfast/lunch easy. Whatever is leftover i put in the fridge for later.
These were so low effort for me and great tasting for my 9 month old and 2.5 year old. I had 3 ripe bananas so I was able to make 6 PBJ muffins and 6 banana blueberry muffins in a regular sized silicone muffin pan. My 9 month old was double fisting them and my toddler loved that he had options. Thank you for sharing your recipes, tips (silicone pan 👌🏽), family, and humor with us!!
I’m SO happy to hear that you all loved these muffins! And yes, the silicone pan is a game-changer! Thank you for sharing your great feedback, Sarah!😊
Excellent recipe- bonus that it’s so quick and easy to make. I used a full tsp baking powder by accident but they turned out perfect. These will be high on the snack rotation!
I’m so happy to hear that you enjoyed these muffins! Thanks for sharing your great review, Carla😊
Baked these today, did half blueberries and half raspberries, and they turned out absolutely beautiful! Wonderful recipe!!
I’m so happy to hear that you liked them! Thanks for sharing your great review, Sarah!
I made these and while they taste delicious, they came out really dark, like almost a dark gray. Is this just from the blueberries maybe or have you had this happen before? They taste great so I guess it doesn’t matter haha but just curious!
Hi Kristen! I’m not sure why they turned out gray, did the color seem off before they baked? I’m thinking it may be from the liquids released from the blueberries or possibly the brand of peanut butter used? I’m happy that you still enjoyed them despite the color!😊
After I left this comment, I realized it was probably because I used sun butter instead (daycare is entirely nut free). So if anyone else makes them this way and this happens, don’t worry, they’re delicious and totally fine!
Thanks for sharing your feedback Kristen!😊
My nine month old loves these. Also helps us to not waste Bananas. Keep the recipes coming. 😊
I’m so happy to hear that! Thanks for sharing your great review!😊
AMAZING!!!!
This is a favorite in our house! My toddler gobbles these up!!
I’m so happy to hear that your toddler enjoys these muffins! 🙂