These Vegan Peach Muffins are moist, juicy muffins perfect for breakfast or vegan kids’ snacks. Bonus, these are healthy muffins made with no refined sugar.
I love making healthy muffins with bananas, like my Vegan Banana Muffins, Vegan Chocolate Banana Muffins, and Pumpkin Banana Muffins but since it’s the beginning of the peach season, I knew I needed to make banana muffins with peaches.
Banana and peach muffins are moist banana muffins filled with juicy pieces of ripe peaches. They are a great kid snack full of plant-based proteins from oats, and wheat flour and mostly sweetened with natural sugar from fruits.
Ingredients and Substitutions
The ingredients you need to make these kids vegan peach muffins are:
- All-Purpose Flour – You can also use all-purpose gluten-free flour like Bob Red Mills mix. This gluten-free mix contains gum and works perfectly as a 1:1 replacement for wheat flour for kids with gluten allergies.
- Old-Fashioned Rolled Oats – Don’t use quick oats or steel-cut oats.
- Cinnamon – Optional but flavorsome.
- Cane Sugar – This recipe uses only a small amount of unrefined cane sugar simply because ripe bananas and peaches are already very sweet. It means that if you want to make the recipe with no added sugar, you can! Just leave out the sugar, and the recipe will work very well too.
- Baking Powder and Baking Soda – For a fluffy texture.
- Salt – optional for small kids, can be removed.
- Mashed Bananas – About 3 large ripe bananas are used in this recipe. I recommend you peel, mash the bananas with a fork and then measure the amount called by the recipe. Precision is the key to egg-free baking, or the batter can be very dry.
- Olive Oil – Use a light-flavored olive oil to avoid a bitter aftertaste in your banana and peach oatmeal muffins. Another option is to use vegetable oils like canola oil or nut and seed oil like almond oil or coconut oil.
- Vanilla Extract – for flavor.
- Diced Peaches – You can use fresh or canned peaches for this recipe. If you use canned peaches, pat dry the pieces in absorbent paper to remove the extra juice from the can.
How To Make Vegan Peach Muffins
- First, in a large bowl, whisk the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In another bowl, combine the wet ingredients, mashed bananas, olive oil, and vanilla extract.
- Next, stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, half at a time, stirring between each addition to incorporate the flour gently and avoid lumps.
- Finally, fold the diced peaches into the batter.
- Bake the muffins for 20 to 30 minutes in preheated oven at 350°F (180°C) until the top is golden brown and a pick inserted in the center of the muffins comes out clean.
- Cool down the muffins for 2 hours on a rack before eating.
Peach Muffin Variations
You can create different muffin flavors by adding 1/2 cup of:
- Blueberries – The muffins will be very moist if you add more fruits, but kids love it.
- Chocolate Chips – Some are sugar-free and dairy-free too, like Choc Zero dark chocolate chips.
- Unsweetened Shredded Coconut – For a slight tropical flavor.
- Maple Syrup – Swap the crystal sugar with unrefined liquid sweeteners like agave or maple syrup.
Storage Instructions
These are very moist fruit-filled muffins, and they must be stored in an airtight container in the fridge. They last up to 4 days in the fridge, or they can be frozen for up to 3 months. Thaw the muffins in your kid’s lunchbox the day before.
Frequently Asked Questions
You can bake this healthy banana peach muffin recipe in two or three trays of a 12-hole mini muffin tin.
The mini muffins bake way faster, about 15-20 minutes maximum.
These healthy banana peach muffins are delicious snacks or breakfasts for kids. They contain all the proteins, fiber, and nutrients to start the day right.
For a complete breakfast, serve one muffin with a glass of almond milk or a serving of Greek yogurt (or dairy-free calcium-fortified yogurt).
No, you don’t have to peel the peaches to make this peach muffin recipe.
However, if the recipe is for kids from 2-5 years old, the skin can be a choking hazard, so I recommend peeling the peaches.
Yes, you can make peach banana bread with this recipe. First, line a 9-inch loaf pan with parchment paper and oil the paper with coconut oil.
Then, transfer the batter to the pan and bake in the center rack of your preheated oven at 350°F (180°C) for 40 to 50 minutes or until cooked in the center.
More Vegan Muffin Recipes
I love vegan kid muffin recipes for lunchboxes and snacks. Below I listed more kid recipes for you to try.
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Vegan Peach Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cup All-Purpose Flour - or white whole-wheat flour
- ⅓ cup Rolled Oats
- ¼ cup Sugar - or 1/3 cup for sweeter muffins
- 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 ¾ cup Mashed Banana - about 4 small ripe bananas or 4 large bananas
- ¼ cup Light Olive Oil - or canola oil
- 1 cup Diced Peach - pit removed, peeled – about 1 large peach
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 12-hole muffin tray with paper cups or grease each hole with oil. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine all the dry ingredients: flour, rolled oats, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Set aside.
- In another bowl, combine mashed bananas, vanilla extract and oil. Stir in the flour 1/2 cup at a time, stirring between to gently incorporate the flour to avoid lumps.
- Stir in the diced peaches. If you use canned peaches, make sure you pat dry the pieces to prevent adding juice to the muffin batter – this can make the muffin too moist. The batter will be very thick, but that's what you want.
- Fill the 12 muffin holes up to the top.
- Bake for 20-30 minutes or until the top is golden brown and a skewer inserted in the center of the muffins comes out clean or with few to no crumbs on it.
- Cool down on a rack for 2 hours before eating.
These are so good!!! I added about 1/2 cup of fresh blueberries because I had some left, and they still turned out great. I subbed applesauce in place of bananas and it worked perfect. One question though, are these freezer friendly?
How much applesauce should I use if I want to substitute for the bananas?
Same amount
You can absolutely freeze these muffins and thaw the day before serving. Enjoy.
I made them today & are so good love it will do them many more times thank you
I’m wondering if I did something wrong. The bottom half of my muffin stuck to the paper muffin insert.
It’s not an issue with this recipe in particular, but something that can be avoided with preparation of your muffin paper cup. Try to spray cooking oil on the paper cups next time, and wait until muffins are fully cooled down before removing from paper. Enjoy!
Salut Carine
Can I omit the banana n use only peach or I need it as an egg replacer? Just have a lot of peaches n nectarines left from a gathering. Merci
No you can’t but you can swap for unsweetened apple sauce, this is a egg replacer and you must add this to the batter or the muffins won’t hold. Enjoy
I’ve made 2 loaves of this bread recipe…. Yummy! Shared some with friends and family
Hi! What step do you add the vanilla? It didn’t mention it so I added it at the very end but I’m thinking I should add it during the banana/oil stage? Thanks!
Thanks for spotting that, true it’s easier to mix with the liquid ingredients but don’t worry too much, the taste will be the same if you added the vanilla at the end!