A flourless almond butter and jelly muffin that’s gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free, oil-free and whipped up in the blender in under 5 minutes flat.
Almond butter and jelly… is there any combination that’s more classic? Well, peanut butter and jelly, maybe, but you guys know how I feel about those lunatic legumes.
Lunatic? Really, Amanda?!? Ugh, sorry guys… my thesaurus failed me and I couldn’t find another word for ‘pesky’ that started with an ‘L’. But I digress. Back to the almond butter and jelly.
It’s one of my favourite combos, right up there with cheese and dough (read: pizza), cookies and [ice] cream, and chocolate and my face. I love it on toast; on rice cakes; on oatmeal; on spoons (true story); and now, on in muffins…
Let’s try that again… IN muffins…
Better. And these aren’t just any muffins… Nuh uh. they’re flourless, gluten-free, refined sugar-free, dairy-free, oil-free, blender muffins. Kind of a mouthful, eh? But a mouth full of deliciousness! Err. That was a bad one — sorry. But these muffins? They’re gooders.
My flourless muffins are probably some of my favourite recipes here on Spoons, and seeing as they also happen to be the ones that get the most pins and shares, I’m going to go ahead and assume that you guys like them too. And for good reason! Not only are they ridiculously quick and easy to whip up (with barely anything to clean up), but they just so happen to be pretty darn tasty… and made with ingredients that you can feel good about eating.
So the next time you get hit with a craving for an almond butter and jelly sandwich (or peanut butter and jelly if you swing that way), scrap the bread and take an extra 10 minutes to whip up a batch of these flourless almond butter and jelly muffins — I can pretty much guarantee that it’ll be love at first bite.
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Flourless Almond Butter and Jelly Muffins
- Total Time: 15 mins
- Yield: 9 muffins 1x
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (128 g) almond butter*
- 1 medium, ripe banana (100g or 1/2 cup)
- 1 large egg
- 1/4 cup (80 g) honey
- 1/2 cup (40 g) rolled oats
- 2 Tbsp (14 g) ground flaxseed
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 cup (60g) of your favourite jelly, divided*
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F (190C) and prepare a muffin pan by spraying 9 cavities with cooking spray. Set aside.
- Add all ingredients except for jam to a blender and blend on high until oats are broken down and batter is smooth and creamy.
- Use a greased tablespoon to spoon approximately 2 Tbsp (30 ml) of batter into the prepared muffin pan, filling each cavity about 1/3 of the way full. There should be enough to generously cover the bottom of the cavity.
- Add 1 to 1 1/2 tsp. of jam to the centre of each cavity before topping with another 2 Tbsp (30 ml) of batter, or until each cavity is 3/4 of the way full. You want to make sure that all of the jam is covered so that it doesn’t seep out and burn on the side of the pan.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the tops of your muffins are set and a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean. Allow muffins to cool in pan for ~10 minutes before removing. Store in an air-tight container for up to a week.
Notes
* you can easily sub this with a different nut butter, or use a seed or soy nut butter to make these nut-free.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 10 mins
Looking for more flourless muffins recipes? Try one of these!
Flourless Chocolate Chip Almond Butter Muffins
Flourless Double Chocolate Chip Muffins
Flourless Banana Bread Muffins
Almond butter and jelly is such a classic combo — the best. I’ve never been much of a fan of peanut butter myself. These muffins look so perfectly moist and just amazing. I love how simple and natural the ingredients are. Beautiful job!
pinning!
Looks delicious as always! There’s nothing like nut butter – I am SUCH an addict. Ay yi yi!
I absolutely LOVE your flour less muffins…these are GENIUS and yes probably best combo EVER!
Ummm, holy yum. I’m such a sucker for PB and J (or AB). I’m supposed to take a brunch dish to church on Sunday, and I’m thinking these just might be perfect!
I am so HERE for this, girl!
I want to do mine lunatic style thought. #trill
Don’t you just LOVE muffins and cupcakes that have a little fun surprise in the middle?? These are TOO cute 🙂
I actually have almond butter now so I can make these the way that you’re supposed to make them! Any sort of nut butter and jelly makes me happy…although I just finished my raspberry jelly so now I need more.
Favourite food combo right now? Justin’s + spoon. Speaking of which, I think i need a snack…
Love your blender recipes! They’re so easy to whip, not to mention pretty delicious also! Pinning these for the next time I have a muffin craving… what am I talking about? That’s pretty much all of the time!
Any thoughts on how to sub in almond flour or coconut flour for those of us who don’t do any grain? Look yummy!
I’m pretty sure you could replace the 1/2 cup of oats with 1/2 cup of almond flour and they’d come out just fine.
Thanks so much!
you know the way to my glutenfree heart! <3 pb &J
I’m not a huuuuge jelly fan (I know what’s wrong with me?) but these maybe combined with um…..nutella?….would be awesome. Not really healthy buuuut that’s beside the point. Also–A++ for your photos–seriously amazing.
This post just inspired an office rant by me as to WHY the pastry chef doesn’t start getting fancy with their donut creations and then demanded they make me an AB&J filled donut.
It won’t happen.
Now you’ve given ME a huge craving for ABJ donuts… or heck, any donuts.
OMG yum!! These look awesome!
THIS IS GENIUS!! When you told me you were making these I didn’t realize the jam and AB were in the center. omg. Right now my food combo is… strawberries and chocolate.
This officially makes you the queen of flourless muffins. Even though I don’t like Jelly and consider oat flour a flour but that’s just me being sassy lol. I’m also hungry so if you wanna omit the jelly and send me some of these I would be eternally grateful!
Yup yup oh yesssss these are so making the to-make list!
Although my jelly won’t look nearly as perfect in mine. Seriously how is it not dripping or squished when you cut it? You magician 😉
These look awesome! I like to freeze my muffins but haven’t ever tried freezing filled ones…think that’d work ok?
Yum, yum yum! You say peanut butter, I say celery.
Oh yum! I love almond butter and jelly together! These muffins looks so moist and delicious!
Would you hate me if I made these with peanut butter instead? I love almond butter for the sake of convenience (i.e. what I have on hand), peanut butter has a one up! Lately I’ve been loving the combination of dark chocolate & coffee…especially when you dip the chocolate into the coffee- heavenly! As for peanut (or almond) butter, I especially love it with chocolate…or bananas…or a spoon ;)!
I don’t think I could ever hate ya, lady <3 And I'm SO with you on chocolate and coffee... I've been taking a few squares to Starbucks with me every morning and enjoying it that way 😀
Wow these look perfect. I do love the flavor combination of peanut butter and jelly. I am also biased considering I take one to work every other day.
Oh wow! Marvelous work m’lady ..this is just perfection. An incident with a regular store-bought muffin (it was chocolate at that!) emphasised -to me- that indeed, your flourless muffins are the fairest by far. , once the taste buds have been acquainted with them, very rarely a muffin that can live up to those standards!
I would give anything to have one of these in front of me right now!! They look incredible and I love the ingredients list too. They shall be pinned! 🙂
You say peanut butter, I say… dark chocolate!!! Or give me a spoon. Either way.
I must say, after reading your post for some reason the milkshake song came in my head.
Your muffins bring all the boys to the yard…
… I’ll stop now :o)
Ugh… now you’ve got ME singing it 😛
Yumyumyum yet again! I think I’ll make these with PB since I’m a die hard PB fan 🙂
You’ve done it again! I think I also want to add a glob of peanut butter to the center! I’m pretty upset that I don’t have jelly or this would be happening right now…
I’m just going to have to become a taste tester for all your ways with almond butter. I think it’s a match made in Heaven, yes?
I cannot wait to make these!!!
Mmm they sound amazing! I’ve had such a craving for a jam and almond butter sandwich recently 🙂
These look good… sadly I can’t tolerate bananas in any form 🙁 Do you think I would be successful subbing applesauce?
I can’t remember if I’ve commented this before, but I have a couple of recipe videos on my YouTube channel I think you would LOVE, Amanda! Almond butter (or soy or sun butter!) can totally be subbed for the PB in my peanut butter energy bars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwZsAJddlcE (no bake, super easy, incredibly easy, there is CHOCOLATE involved) and in my Maple Cinnamon Nut Clusters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVan12lTNKY you could just leave out peanuts! Just thought I’d let you know, they actually really make me think of your food tastes (especially the bars.. haha!)
Have a great day!
Ella
http://www.youtube.com/user/SparklesAndSuch26
I’m honestly not sure about the applesauce… I might have to give it a try one of these days and see if it works out. And I just checked out your energy bars and they definitely look like the kind of thing I love. All of my favourite things in one bar <3
Please let me know what happens if you try them w/ applesauce! They look so good otherwise! Thanks for checking out the bars, I’m glad you enjoyed! They really reminded me of you haha!
oh yum. and I have almond butter and it’s the weekend so no excuses! a big thank you from my kids…they will love this and can help me with it so bonus!
Should I congratulate you on the brilliant creation or be mad because almond butter is about three times as expensive as peanut butter? Meaning I could still try these but let some lunatic legume action happening ;). Which is what I’ve been doing with every of your almond butter recipes I’ve tried so far. Lunatic krispie cereal energy bites?! I feel I’d better not advertise them that way…
You say peanut butter I say: lunatic deliciousness but beaten by almond butter. Though I’ve mixed them at breakfast today and that wasn’t half bad either. Then again: what’s not good when eaten with almond butter?!
You’re secretly planning on killing me, aren’t you? Keepin’ my eye on ya 😉
Yum! Thanks for sharing. I feel like many of my best creations are spontaneous.
Any recipe that can be whipped up that quickly is good in my books! Especially with a center like these. I totally agree about the combo, I often don’t even taste the difference between almond butter and peanut butter anyways so this is as good as classic! Haha chocolate and my face is also a good combo, that made me laugh!
Wow, do these look amazing! Peanut butter and jelly is such a classic combination and always reminds me of my childhood. It’s still one of my favorite sandwiches to eat even as an adult, and I love the idea of having it in muffin form. Can’t wait to give these a try!
I like these. A lot. Obviously made with peanut butter in place of almond but still, so simple. I never liked peanut butter and jelly as a kid and probably didn’t learn to like jelly at all, especially with my peanut butter until I was in college. I don’t know, jelly wasn’t my thing. It still isn’t but I have learned to appreciate it.
Yum! Do you think these could be made without jelly? Do you recommend a substitute? I am probably the only person in the world who doesn’t like jelly…I know, its a sin!
You could always just make the chocolate chip ones. It’s basically the same recipe just with chocolate chips instead of the jelly.
Hi Amanda! Now I’m loving your almond butter & jelly muffins, but with your permission, I might make those double chocolate chip muffins first! They are calling my name. Like for breakfast too.
My little one is always wanted to bake something and after making 3 meals a day, I get so lazy. But I’ll indulge her this time.
Have a lovely weekend!!
Baking with my momma was one of my favourite things growing up! You totally should indulge her 😉 And what better way than with chocolate?
Peanut butter and banana is a winning combo but any nut butter and jam is a classic combo.
These look great – I will definitely be whipping them up next week when I am home from visiting my family! Gluten free goodness at it’s best. Jam in muffins is so bloody good – all warm and gooey! Could really use one for my afternoon tea actually. Fancy sending one over the Atlantic with a courier – we’ve got two hours… 😉
Hope you have a fabulous weekend 🙂
You threw a banana AND honey in them too!!! With AB/jelly/honey/& nanners, these muffins have ALL the bases covered!
Love how dense your muffins look!
Have a wonderful weekend lady! xx