Cocoa & banana oat muffins.

A great, quick and healthy breakfast or afternoon snack.

This recipe is so quick and easy to make - great for a night when you are pressed for time or really don’t have the energy to start baking. An easy homemade sweet treat. These oat muffins can keep in the fridge for a couple of days and are great to bring to work for an afternoon snack or even for breakfast the next day! Give yourself a magnesium boost from the cocoa, pumpkin seeds and bananas. These cocoa muffins are perfect for that time of the month, or just a healthy snack any time of the month.

Ready in 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 cup oats

• 2 bananas

• 2 tbsp cocoa powder

• 3 chopped dates

• handful of pumpkin seeds

• 1 tbsp date syrup

• 1 tbsp flax seed (optional)

Method

Mash bananas in a bowl, add cocoa powder, flax pumpkin seeds, oats, chopped dates and mix well. Add date syrup and mix in. Bake in oven for around 5-10 minutes. Top with pumpkin seeds and a drizzle of date syrup. This recipe makes around six small oat muffins.