Gluten-free, dairy free, oat and nut flour, sweetened with dates and chocolate chips for an energy power, energy muffin for the health of it.
Healthy Power Energy Muffins – The gluten-free boost you’ll love
There’s something so satisfying about a muffin that actually fuels your day, not just fills it. My Healthy Power Energy Muffins are exactly that kind of breakfast or snack.
Made with wholesome nut and oat flours instead of wheat, these gluten-free muffins pack in energy, flavor, and a touch of sweetness from nature’s candy, dates and a few chocolate chips for good measure.
Why These Muffins Are A Powerhouse Of Nutrition
Instead of using refined wheat flour, I turn to oat flour and nut flour, like almond, rice, or coconut, for a gluten-free base that’s high in protein, fiber, and healthy fats.
These flours not only make the muffins easier to digest but also keep you feeling satisfied longer.
Oats bring complex carbohydrates for steady energy, while nut and coconut flours add richness and a slightly sweet, nutty flavor that pairs beautifully with the other ingredients.
What Makes These Muffins Special
These muffins aren’t your typical sugar-loaded pastries. They’re energy-packed, nutrient-dense, and deliciously balanced, the kind of snack that keeps you going through a morning workout, a long workday, or a mid-afternoon slump.
Each bite offers warmth from oats, sweetness from dates, crunch from walnuts, and that irresistible touch of chocolate.
And best of all? They’re gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined-sugar light, proof that healthy baking doesn’t have to sacrifice comfort or flavor.
Healthy Energy Food
Food that is healthy has a way of bringing us comfort, powerful energy, a sense of loving ourselves by feeding our body good things.
Maybe it’s the smell of a particular food, or the taste that brings a smile to our face, but it’s the powerful whole ingredients that make us feel healthy.
I wanted to make something healthy and yummy to have with afternoon tea, a time of day I like to pause, gather my thoughts and just take a moment for me.
Gluten vs Gluten-free
Gluten is not an issue for me since I don’t have celiac. However, celiac is a discomforting disease in which some people have an immune reaction to eating gluten; which is a protein found in wheat and a few other grains.
The gluten-free trend (I call it a trend only because many who don’t have celiac feel they should be gluten-free), did teach me something.
It exposed me to so many other types of flour to cook with that are actually healthier and more delicious.
So, I went into my pantry and fridge, which is also looking strangely different in recent years, as I’ve explored so many healthy alternatives to the baking ingredients I grew up using.
Grabbing a hodgepodge of ingredients that spoke to me, chocolate being the first, dates, nuts, oats and a few other goodies followed.
My Muffin Madness
When my four children were growing up and I was a single mom with an in-home business, I needed fast easy ways to feed my children healthy meals.
Muffins were a great way to have these little power bombs of everything healthy I could think to put in them.
Waiting for each little sweet face at the breakfast table, or have ready for after school snacks at the end of their day, was my way of giving a variety of hugs throughout their day.
Healthy Energy Muffins
Sometimes the muffins had fruit and nuts, while other times they were loaded with eggs, meat and veggies. I soon became the muffin queen.
When I went to Brazil to live for a few years (empty nest time), I made muffins for friends I met.
Before long I was being approached to go into business and open a chain of muffin shops all over Brazil! How fun would that have been, but I declined.
They had never seen a muffin. Imagine that, a country with fabulous bakeries on every corner, a gazillion types of bananas, energy rich fruits of many types, but no muffins.
Needless to say, my Banana Muffins were a smashing hit!
Healthy Muffins Are A Comfort Hug
These gluten-free, healthy power muffins, came together fast in my mind, and even faster once I began whisking the ingredients together.
They are so delicious that I wanted to document the recipe right here so I will always have it to come back to, and of course to share with you.
More Superfood Muffins To Love
Since the documenting of this article, I have published so many other healthy muffins, both yin and yang; savory and sort-of-sweet.
Life has moved several years from that wretched year that knocked us off our feet, but the desire to eat healthy has become more powerful than ever before.
Hope you will enjoy many more easy to make, healthy muffins for your busy days, and relaxing weekends.
- Apple Muffins – Recipe has the added healthy ingredients of oats, nuts and lots of fresh apples for an Autumn hug.
- Zucchini Muffins – European inspired healthier zucchini lemon bread or muffin recipe is made with pure Rapeseed oil, kefir, lots of garden fresh zucchini and two whole lemons.
- Banana Muffin Recipe – are made with barley flour, sweet ripe bananas, olive oil, yogurt and molasses, for the best healthy banana muffins ever.
- Oatmeal Muffins – healthy overnight oat muffins with ginger for our tummy, molasses for bones, oats for everything and cardamom, a cholesterol aid, are muffins for all.
- Sweet Potato Muffins – while this recipe was created around an AB Blood type, and can only be found in my cookbook, its concept was designed from my Sweet Potato Pie.
- Spanakopita muffins – all the yummy spinach, feta, lemon, fresh oregano and eggs found in spanakopita, made into a muffin, without phyllo!
- Cheeseburger muffins – All your favorite burger ingredients in a muffin batter with another mini cheeseburger on top, pickles and tomatoes!
My Muffin Madness Cookbook
Now that I’ve got you thinking outside the box about muffins, are you ready to try other creative and delicious muffin recipes you won’t find anywhere else?
Hot off the press this year: My Muffin Madness Cookbook!
The Ingredients Needed That Make It Work
- Oats flour add structure and a hearty texture, a slow-burning source of energy.
- Rice flour or Coconut flour, both are naturally gluten-free and create a light, tender crumb. Coconut flour also adds subtle sweetness and extra fiber.
- Walnuts bring crunch, omega-3s, and healthy fats that keep your mind sharp and your body energized.
- Coconut sugar or sweetener of choice, thought the dates might be all the sweetness you need.
- Baking powder and baking soda, the leavening duo that helps these hearty flours rise beautifully.
- Salt, a pinch to balance and brighten every flavor.
- Dates, naturally sweet and packed with potassium, dates give the muffins caramel-like flavor and a chewy bite.
- Eggs, the protein-rich binder that keeps everything moist and fluffy.
- Olive oil, a heart-healthy fat that adds tenderness and depth of flavor.
- Almond milk (or your favorite alternative), keeps the batter smooth and dairy-free.
- Chocolate chips, because a few dark chocolate chips never hurt anyone, they make each bite a little reward.
Equipment Needed
- Muffin tins – I’m loving these silicone muffin trays, they never need non-stick spray!
- Measuring spoons and a measuring cup for easy precision.
- Cutting board and a sharp knife to chop the dates.
- 2 Mixing bowls for both wet and dry ingredients before they are combined.
- Baking paper cups if using a metal muffin tin so the muffins are easy to remove.
- Oven to bake the muffins.
Perfect For Any Moment
Enjoy them warm out of the oven with a drizzle of almond butter, or pack them in your bag for an on-the-go breakfast.
They also freeze beautifully, so you can bake a batch on Sunday and enjoy fresh-tasting muffins all week long. An do try my other muffin recipes, I promise you’ll love the unique variety!
Healthy Gluten-free Power Energy Muffins
Equipment
- Muffin tin
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups Rolled Oats ground to a flour
- 3/4 cup Rice flour, coconut flour or millet flour
- 3/4 cup Walnuts ground to a flour
- 1/4 cup Coconut sugar or sweetener of choice
- 1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 10 Dates pitted and finely chopped
- 2 Eggs
- 1/4 cup Olive oil
- 3/4 cup Almond milk or Whole milk homemade almond milk
- 1/2 cup Chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven 350
- Mix the wet ingredients in a medium mixing bowl.
- Mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then add to wet ingredients.
- Add chocolate chips and chopped dates. Transfer batter to paper lined muffin tins.
- Bake until done, about 25 minutes.
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