Breakfast muffins for kids
Start your day with warm, homemade muffins – one for the kids, two for you! Including family-friendly sweet and savoury options.
Everyone loves muffins, especially children. Why not bake a batch together for an exciting breakfast? The kids can help mash bananas, tip blueberries into batter, or stir everything together. If you don’t fancy something fruity, try our clever courgette muffins – or maybe veg-packed egg muffins.
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1. Breakfast muffins
Children will love mashing the bananas for these wholesome breakfast muffins, made without refined sugar. Apple sauce and honey add more natural sweetness and there’s cinnamon, blueberries, seeds and vanilla for even more flavour.
2. Easy banana muffins
Get the kids involved with these super-easy banana muffins, ideal for a homemade breakfast when you don’t have much time. Use brown and spotty bananas for the best, most intense flavour and decorate with pecans.
3. Easy egg muffins
It only takes 15 minutes to prepare these easy egg muffins, made colourful with chopped red pepper, broccoli, spring onions and smoked paprika. Add plenty of grated cheddar and a sprinkling of chopped chives to finish.
4. Easy blueberry muffins
Blueberries burst with beautiful purple colour and natural sweetness when you bake them. Add a whole pack to this easy blueberry muffin batter, made moist with natural yogurt. This recipes has more than 150 five star ratings – so try them today!
5. Pumpkin muffins
Children will love these orange-tinted pumpkin muffins, made with a can of pumpkin purée to speed things up. Add plenty of ground cinnamon (or pumpkin spice, if you can find it), and use soft light brown sugar for a rich flavour.
6. Mix & match pancake muffins
Do your kids like pancakes? They’ll love these mix & match pancake muffins, which taste exactly like pancakes (complete with maple syrup) but don’t involve standing over a hot hob. Add fresh raspberries or blueberries for a burst of colour.
7. Fruitburst muffins
These fluffy fruitburst muffins come speckled with blueberries, cranberries, raisins and dried apricots. Orange zest adds even more colour, and the children can help stir the batter together. Plus there’s no added refined sugar – just a little honey.
8. Apple & sultana muffins
Most kids love apples and sultanas, so treat them to these apple & sultana muffins for a weekend breakfast. Grated apple makes these muffins moist, and wholemeal flour instead of the regular kind will keep bellies full for longer.
9. Courgette muffins
Vegetables for breakfast? It will work, we promise! You can’t really taste the grated courgette in this courgette muffins recipe – it’s just there to add moistness, and to act as a secret hit of veg. Leave the soft cheese frosting off, if you think it’s too much for breakfast.
10. Banana and blueberry muffins
Low in fat, these banana and blueberry muffins are bound to be a hit with children. It’s a great recipe for using up overripe bananas, and the egg whites make for a really fluffy texture. Add porridge oats on top for decoration.
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