It's getting unusual in here

I don't normally bake treats (even those without sugar) since I lack the life skills necessary to stop after one serving. But since it's a holiday weekend (that would be the 4th of July if anyone wasn't aware) and Husband is really good about not eating junk food at home, I thought I would be nice and bake him something. I let him pick whatever he wanted and of course he chose cinnamon coffee cake (out of the box). He prefers box mixes to my homemade ones. Which is probably because I really don't think we even have wheat flour in our house right now...we might not even have sugar now that I think about it.

The problem is that I also enjoy baked goods, so I'm running interference and making myself Cinnamon Swirl Banana Muffins (with no added sweetener) so I'll have something yummy to eat as well. And lets face it, the holidays are meant for eating, right? I don't know a holiday that isn't centered around food. If you follow me on Pinterest, I have a board entitled "Paleo Treats: I shouldn't even have this board". Well sometimes I like treats, and that's what this board is for. I went through a bunch of recipes for muffins and banana breads and came up with this recipe for Cinnamon Swirl Banana Muffins. Since I don't bake often and I invented this recipe myself, here's hoping for the best!

Cinnamon Swirl Banana Muffins (Paleo)
Batter:
2 Bananas mashed
2 eggs
1/4 cup cashew butter (or other nut butter)
2 T grass-fed butter (melted)
1 T Vanilla
2 T coconut flour
2 T Arrowroot flour
1 T cinnamon
1/2 t nutmeg
1/2 t allspice
1/8 t salt
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t gluten free baking powder

Swirl:
1 Tb coconut oil melted
1/2 Tb cinnamon

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix bananas, eggs, nut butter, melted butter and vanilla until bananas are runny with very few lumps. In a separate bowl combine coconut flour, arrowroot flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.

Slowly add dry mixture into wet ingredients making sure to break up any lumps in the coconut flour. Coconut flour is REALLY absorptive so let the batter sit for 5 minutes or so and it will thicken up.

Divide batter into 6 muffins. As a side note for anyone who bakes with regular flour, GF baked goods stick to everything when you bake them. So use those metal muffin liners or the silicone ones. Basic paper liners with stick to your muffins and then you end up with only like half a muffin when you try to take them out! Learned that the hard way a few times.

So the last step is to add the cinnamon swirl part. Melt coconut oil (or butter) and stir in cinnamon. Then drizzle on top of muffins and use a toothpick to make a swirl pattern on them.

Bake in the over for 15 to 20 minutes.

These were some of the best paleo muffins I have mede yet. I think the blend of coconut flour and arrowroot flour make these much more cake-like then ones I've made before. Since I don't eat sugar the bananas were enough to sweeten the batter, but you could always add in a little honey to up the sweetness. And I know a lot of people wont believe me, but since these muffins are the correct texture, you could pass these off as regular muffins. I promise :)

I apologize for the lack of photos for this recipe, I apparently wasn't in the mood to snap pics so I only have the one.