My slight obsession with peanut butter continues here with these whole wheat chocolate chip peanut butter muffins. I know I eat too much of the stuff so I tried to make these muffins a little healthier then many of my other muffin recipes. I used whole wheat flour (wholemeal in the UK), applesauce to help sweeten them, buttermilk because its incredibly low in fat and always makes muffins tender. And I added as little sugar as I could get away with. The whole batch only has 90 grams that’s 7 tablespoons of sugar included. Hey that’s pretty good for one of my recipes 😉















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Chocolate Chips















I don’t really break my recipes down into calories, but I did with these just out of interest to see what they come out as. They seem to be around the 210 calorie mark and if you wanted to shave a few more off you could always leave out the chocolate chips . Though I do highly recommend you don’t, they really do at that little bit of va va voom…















After all who doesn’t love a warm muffin when all the chocolate chips are still soft and a little bit melty? Takes the whole muffin eating experience up a notch…. or is this just me? Answers on a postcard please 😀















And to make these even more dangerous and addictive I drizzled on a little melted peanut butter onto a few of them. Guess which ones went first? Again this is optional but highly recommended.

Healthy….ish!

I don’t claim these to be skinny muffins, like I said before these come in at around 210 calories. Your average muffin tends to be around the 300 to 350 mark. I just swapped in a few alternatives to make them a little less calorific.















Hard to believe I know with all that melty peanut butter dripping down the side 😉 But it is true. The whole wheat (wholemeal) flour is a good source of fiber and a little better for you than white flours. To combat the heaviness this flour can bring to baked goods I used buttermilk as it always help’s to keep muffin batter moist and tender. The very low fat in buttermilk is nice as well 😉















The applesauce really replaces most of the fat in this recipe but I did find I needed to add a little oil still. As without it they were just wrong! They tasted a bit…. wrong! You could try using coconut oil if you wanted to try something a little healthier. I haven’t tried it but if I was to I would use the oil in it’s liquid state.















Give these a go they are fabulous and these are definitely my new favourite muffin and I am sure they will be yours too!



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