Mini Muffin Baby Brownies Bites with Green Frosting

By Aileen Cox Blundell

These healthy brownie bite muffins are sweetened only with bananas! Not a pinch of sugar but still so moist and yummy! The frosting is lightly sweetened with a tiny bit of natural maple syrup and the GREEN part is all-natural too! This is the perfect St. Patrick’s Day recipe for your little ones! 

The Mini Muffin Brownie Bites

One word, chocolate. I love chocolate, Oscar loves chocolate. There’s just something about a chewy brownie that is irresistible right? The challenge is that it can be difficult to find a brownie recipe that is not loaded in oil and sugar. I’m not here to shame anyone for eating a chewy sugary brownie every now and again, but I like to do my best to make swaps so that my kids have healthier versions of traditional treats. Bonus, I eat them too 🙂

So the superpower ingredient here is BANANAS. In baking, a nice overripe banana (think brown spots or even mostly brown peel but no runny slimy spots inside) is an amazing sugar swap. As bananas age, their starches turn to natural sugar, making them an excellent natural sweetener. 

The second BANANA superpower it’s the ability to reduce oil in recipe. Like most fruits, bananas are super moist. This natural moisture works great in adding softness to baked goods like healthy brownie bites! When you add bananas, you can reduce the amount of fat in a recipe like oil and butter. 

• Fat= Moisture
• Bananas= Moisture

Note: Your baked goods will come out a bit more on the fluffy side with bananas.

The Green Frosting

Healthier frosting can be a big challenge. Let’s face it, basically, nothing resembles the frosting made with butter all fluffed up with sugar and it’s definitely not something I like to serve babies or toddlers. On that note, I’ve created this much healthier version of frosting. It’s a vegan frosting, too!

To make the frosting, start by soaking cashews overnight in water. This method makes them blend into a beautifully creamy mixture that resembles frosting as you probably know it (made with whipped butter). Cashews are WAY better for you than the fats contained in traditional butter and contain heart-healthy unsaturated fat.

All of the other ingredients in the vegan frosting for the tops of your healthy brownie bites are natural. Like the green colouring, ready for this… I used fresh spinach! Yes I kid you not, this is a veggie-loaded frosting and you’d NEVER know it (neither will your picky eaters). It’s sweetened with just a tiny bit of maple syrup and when you add a bit of vanilla it tastes even sweeter. 

That’s it!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from this Irish Country Girl to you!

Aileen xoxo

More Irish recipes for baby led weaning:

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Super healthy version of the McDonalds Shamrock Shake.

Granny’s 10 Minute Brown Bread

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This recipe is the quickest brown bread you’ll ever make, and the most delicious.

St.Patricks Day Irish Potato Bites

On the Side

Baby Irish potato bites are an easy appetizer recipe for St. Patrick’s Day!

You can purchase all of the ingredients for this recipe in your local Dunnes Stores. I’d love to see how they go for you! PLEASE share your photos with me on Instagram and Facebook @babyledfeeding !!

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Mini Muffin Baby Brownies Bites with Green Frosting

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Prep: 15 minutes minutes

Cook: 25 minutes minutes

Total: 40 minutes minutes

Servings: 24 Brownie Bites

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Refined sugar-free brownie bites for baby-led weaning! Dairy-free recipe with vegan frosting naturally sweetened. Healthy St. Partick's Day recipe for kids!

Ingredients

• 2 eggs
• 375 ml 1 1/2 cups milk of your choice
• 60 ml rapeseed oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 small bananas
• 4 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 300 g 2 cups flour
• 200 g 1 1/2 cups cashew nuts (soaked overnight)
• 60 ml 1/4 cup milk of your choice
• 2 tablespoons melted coconut oil
• 1 tablespoon maple syrup
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Large handful of spinach leaves
• Finely chopped mint leaves to serve optional

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Method

• Pre-heat oven to 170ºC
• (340ºF)2
• Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cocoa powder to a mixing bowl and stir well
• Blend together the eggs, rapeseed oil, vanilla, milk, and bananas, then pour in the flour mixture one scoop at a time and blend until it forms a smooth batter
• Pour the batter into a lightly oiled mini muffin tin and bake in the oven for 25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean
• Leave to cool on a wire rack fully
• To make the frosting, add all of the ingredients to a blender and blend until the leaves have completely broken up and the mixture is a smooth green paste
• Pour into a bowl then leave in the fridge for about 2 hours to set
• Spoon the mixture into a piping bag, then pipe a little to the top of each muffin
• Sprinkle over the chopped mint leaves to serve

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Recipe Notes & Tips

After brownie bites are completely cooled, place in a freezer bag and freeze for up to 2 months. Thaw naturally at room temperature.

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