Soft-baked gingerbread muffin tops with all the spiced n’ sweet flavor you love during the holiday season! Gluten-free, vegan, and fruit-sweetened, these are the healthiest gingerbread treats you can make. Move over gingerbread men…it’s all about the muffin tops!
It’s crazy how many yummy, creative things I shared in the beginning years of this blog. Looking back, I am quite ashamed of the posts that I included the recipes in (bad pictures, improper grammar, and no real flow or story), but luckily most of the recipes still hold up as something worth making.
It’s my goal to eventually make my way thru my entire archive and revamp all the recipes I shared before I got into food photography and proper writing. The recipe I have to share with you today is certainly an old favorite and it just happens to be PERFECT for the holiday season! Plus, once I saw the Recipe Redux theme for this month, I knew I couldn’t keep this one under wraps for too long.
November 2016 – Theme
Trimming the Table
The holiday baking season is upon us. Time to pull out all the stops. Show us the healthy holiday dessert you will be sharing with family and friends this season.
That’s right, folks. It’s time to truly usher in the holidays with my first GINGERBEAD recipe of the season!
The gingerbread flavor is SPOT ON in these doughy, soft, muffin tops of yum! I seriously considered giving a whole post to the spice mixture on its own…it’s that good. Just the right amount of spice balanced out nicely with the sweetness of the dates and banana. You all know fruit-sweetened baked goods are my specialty!
Gingerbread Muffin Tops
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 10 muffin tops 1x
- Category: Sweet Snacks
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup date paste
- 1 medium ripe banana (130 grams), mashed
- 1/4 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/4 tsp vanilla bean powder
- 1.5 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp coconut powder
- 1 cup gluten-free oat flour
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a large bowl, combine mashed banana, pumpkin, and date paste. Add spices, vanilla, baking powder, cocoa, and flours. Mix together until fully combined. The batter will be a bit sticky. Flour your hands and roll the batter into ten evenly sized balls. Place the balls on a parchment paper lined baking sheet and press them down to flatten slightly. Bake on the middle oven wrack for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack before eating. For even better flavor let them sit overnight in the refrigerator! Store in the freezer or fridge.
Whether you make these for healthy seasonal snacks, a festive dessert, or even as a fun, edible gift to give family and friends, you’ll love this recipe. It’s one that’s very close to my heart because gingerbread flavored things of ANY kind bring up such nostalgia and warm feelings within me. The sweet, spiced taste automatically transports me to the pleasantness of the holiday season. That’s why I make these the whole year thru!
Just like I don’t discern a start or end to pumpkin season…gingerbread is an all season flavor for me too. I think once you make these for yourself you’ll agree that these deserve a place in your kitchen far outside of the holiday season!
Are you a gingerbread lover like me?
What’s your favorite gingerbread treat during the holidays?
What flavors or tastes remind you of the holiday season the most?
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gahhh those scuffins sound so good! totally gotta make those because i have lots of dates waiting to be used too
and that totally sounds like something a dad would joke about haha
Thanks for the recipe, Kaila! I have a medium, overripe banana sitting on the counter right now – all I need is squash puree and applesauce. 😉
Bahaha your dad sounds exactly like my dad seriously. I’m pretty sure he has done stuff like that before. I’m glad you could make those scuffins though. They look fantastic!
Those cookies look great! 😀
what is the calories per serving,and how many can this make? 🙂 GREAT idea
The recipe makes 10 scuffins! I don’t calculate nutritional info for my recipes but I am sure you could do it with an online recipe calculator!!
wow those scuffins look amazing! SO making them 🙂
I can’t wait to see what you crank out with the vitamix!! My mom thinks it’s all hyped up, but I think we would use it a lot. My sister has smoothies every day and I use the blender all the time, so a good high quality one would be a good fit for us!!
I totally would have fallen for your Dad’s trick. That’s something my Dad would say!
Lol, that’s so cool about your Vitamix! My family is so full of sarcasm I often have to ask “wait- are you being serious or sarcastic?”
Those scuffins look really good girl!
That is a funny story about your dad LOL! I would have been tricked too cause you just don’t know these days with sending things in, etc!
My dad would totally do something like that! Oh dads, always keeping us on our toes 😀
I love the holiday cheer and definitely wish it would last all year (or at least all winter!) That is too funny about your dad kidding about the Vitamix motor! I would have believed him too!
Those scuffins look fab, by the way! I’m bookmarking! 😀
Mmm these scuffins look wonderful! Ha and my dad would totes do something like that too 🙂
Interesting concept! I know on my list would be lettuce, mushrooms, cauliflower, peanut flour and some type of berry. As for my spices i would have sea salt, onion powder, garlic, stevia and cinnimon!
I have never tried peanut flour before, but so many other bloggers use it. I think I need some pronto 🙂
BTW, those scuffins look spectacular. I love using dates as a healthy sweetener.
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The best holiday flavor and the best part of the muffin!! I could snack my way through the whole batch embarrassingly fast I have a feeling, so many of my favorite ingredients 🙂
No shame in that, girl! You know I can do that same!! ALL THE MUFFIN TOPS!!!
These look like the perfect breakfast cookie. As you know I like to take gf items with me when I leave the house, for snacking, these will not only be perfect for that, but delicious too!
★★★★★
For sure!! These are so so so yummy!!!
Gosh I AM a gingerbread lover and AM going to be making these ! At Christmas I used to be utterly obsessed with this iced gingerbread loaf from Starbucks ?
Though I’ve been reading your blog from possibly the start ? And I have never once thought any of your posts come across remotely shameful at all . I’ve no doubt you’ll work through your recipes / archives and make them even more gorge saying that !
Aww thanks so much Sarah! You’re the best…honestly, thank you so much for your constant love and support!!! It really means so much to me!!! Definitely let me know when you try the muffin tops!!
Aww that’s so kind of you to say , I just want you to know how much everything you do is appreciated .
And I will !
LOVE YOU GIRL!!! 😀
YES. I love not having a season for flavors. I love making pumpkin bread in April if I freeze pumpkin now. And these look absolutely delightful. <3
Thank you so much! You’ll love these muffin tops!
These sound delicious! I’m so excited it’s gingerbread season and can’t wait to start making all kinds of gingerbread flavoured dishes. Have you ever tried it in oatmeal? That’s something I want to try out.
Gingerbread oatmeal sounds so yummy!! I’ll have to try making some ASAP!! 🙂
Gotta love spicey gingerbread treats this time of year! Thanks for linking up to Funtastic Friday!
Thanks Kimm!
These sound amazing! Can’t wait to add them to my holidays! Thanks for sharing on Homestead Blog Hop!
Love gingerbread! By far by favorite holiday flavor and isn’t the top of the muffin everyone’s favorite? Can’t wait to try this
Thanks Summer!
I love muffin tops – Thanks for sharing on the What’s for Dinner link up!
Thanks for hosting!
“Looking back, I am quite ashamed of the posts that I included the recipes in (bad pictures, improper grammar, and no real flow or story),”
Ha! I think I worry I’m still muddling my way through all of this. I do think I’m better than when I started though, which I think is one of the ultimate goals 😉
I am a recent follower of your blog, so all I know is your wonderful recipes and beautiful food photography. I also hope to one day re-do all of my “poorly pictured” recipe posts.
These cookies sound SO delicious Courtney! My husband is a huge ginger fan and I know he would really just love these.
Thanks os much for sharing at Healthy Vegan Fridays! I’m pinning & sharing =)
Ah sorry! I typed Courtney instead of Kaila! Sorry Kaila! (I had just read a post from another blogger named Courtney… so much for multitasking 😉
Ah sorry! I typed Courtney instead of Kaila! Sorry Kaila! (I had just read a post from another blogger named Courtney… so much for multitasking 😉
No worries! LOL
Thanks so much! We all start somewhere! LOL
I am definitely in a gingerbread frame of mind right now. These sound scrumptious. Thanks for sharing on #TastyTuesdays
Let me know if you try these!
These look so yummy! I’m excited to try them this Christmas. Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks Lindsay! Let me know if you try them!
They sound delicious, I’ll be making these for sure.
Let me know when you try them!!!
I’ve always wanted to make muffin tops!
These are the perfect way to start gingerbread season!
Thanks
Michelle
Yes for sure! Let me know if you make them!
I love a healthier holiday treat this time of year! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday!
Thanks Dee!
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Thanks so much! Let me know if you try these!!
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When you realize you already have all of these ingredients on hand 😉 MUFFIN TOP TIME!
Awesome!! Let me know how you like them!!
Yum! I love when gluten free and vegan recipes don’t have nuts or peanut butter As someone allergic to those, it’s a real challenge finding recipes.
Thanks! I am glad you like the recipe!