Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
on Jan 23, 2024, Updated Mar 08, 2024
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Soft, warm, and deliciously sweet Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins are the perfect treat for any occasion! These moist muffins are perfect for that bunch of ripe bananas on your counter and come together in under an hour.
Homemade muffins are one of the most comforting foods! The warm, fluffy texture is nostalgic and delicious. These banana chocolate chip muffins are no exception! With each bite, the sweetness of the banana is brought out by the chocolate chips to keep you coming back for more.
The riper your bananas are, the sweeter your muffins will be. Adding a little bit of salted butter to the tops of your muffins adds the perfect contrast to the rich sweetness of the chocolate and fruit.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- It’s a delicious and easy way to use up ripe bananas!
- The most luxurious blend of banana with a hint of sweet chocolate!
- Leaves your house smelling warm and inviting!
- You can leave them on the counter and snack on them at any time!
Recipe Ingredients
- Bananas—Rip and mashed.
- Salted Butter—Helps keep your muffins moist and smooth.
- Brown Sugar—Adds some extra sweetness to your muffins.
- Large Eggs—Gives your muffins a light, fluffy texture.
- Vanilla Extract—Enhances the sweetness of your bananas.
- Baking Soda—To help the muffins rise.
- All-purpose Flour—Can be replaced with half white flour and half oat flour.
- Chocolate Chips—Semi-sweet, milk, or dark chocolate.
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
How to Make Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Step #1. Preheat your oven. Fill a standard size muffin tin with liners and set aside.Use an electric hand mixer to cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl.
Step #2. Once the butter and sugar are thoroughly creamed, whisk in the egg. Add the mashed bananas and vanilla extract. Continue whisking at a low-medium speed until the mixture is smooth.
Step #3. Gently whisk in the flour and baking soda. Once the flour is fully incorporated, fold in the chocolate chips.
Step #4. Fill each muffin liner with batter and bake.Serve and enjoy!
Recipe FAQs
The best way to ripen bananas quickly is by keeping them in a warm spot like next to your stovetop. You can also place the bananas in a brown paper bag overnight. Keeping them together as a bunch will also speed up the process rather than having them separated.
The butter in these muffins will naturally help them to become moist and fluffy while they bake! Something you can avoid to make sure you have moist and fluffy muffins is overmixing your batter. Continuously mixing will destroy the air bubbles, resulting in a flat top muffin. Add all of the ingredients and mix until everything is just combined to keep your muffins nice and fluffy.
Definitely! You can freeze ripe bananas and store them in the freezer for up to 3 months at a time. After that they may start to develop some freezer burn. Using frozen bananas will not affect the taste of your muffins, but you will want to let them thaw completely before mashing them and adding them to your batter.
Expert Tips
- You can use milk, semi-sweet, or dark chocolate chips in this recipe so choose your favorite! For some extra chocolatey goodness, you can up the chocolate chips to 2 cups!
- For a perfect looking dome top on your muffins, fill each liner only ¾ of the way full. This will ensure that they do not spill over the sides and will allow them to come out of the tin better!
- The riper the bananas the better! You can use bananas that are on the green side in a pinch, but they won’t add as much sweetness to your muffins and will be harder to mash.
- Add some more flavor to your muffins by sprinkling 2 teaspoons of cinnamon into your batter!
- You can check to make sure your muffins are done baking by poking a few with a toothpick! As long as the toothpick comes out mostly clean, you can remove the muffins from the oven.
How to Store Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Once these delicious muffins come out of the oven, you can eat them plain or spread some butter on top. These are great for breakfast, dessert, or just a little snack. You can store these muffins on the counter for up to 5 days in a large airtight container. When storing your muffins, I recommend letting them cool down before transferring them to a container. If your muffins are still hot they will create some condensation that will drip back down onto the muffins.
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Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
- ½ cup salted butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 3 ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Fill a standard size muffin tin with liners and set aside.
- Use an electric hand mixer to cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl for 1-2 minutes.
- Once the butter and sugar are thoroughly creamed, whisk in the eggs for about 30 seconds.
- Add the mashed bananas and vanilla extract. Continue whisking at a low-medium speed until the mixture is smooth.
- Gently whisk in the flour and baking soda. Once the flour is fully incorporated, fold in the chocolate chips.
- Fill each muffin liner with batter and bake your muffins for 18 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy!
Notes
- You can store these muffins on the counter for up to 5 days in a large airtight container.
- When storing your muffins, I recommend letting them cook down before transferring them to a container. If your muffins are still hot they will create some condensation that’ll drip back down on the muffins.
- You can use milk, semi-sweet, or dark chocolate chips in this recipe. For some extra chocolatey goodness you can up the chocolate chips to 2 cups.
- The riper the bananas the better. You can use bananas that are on the green side but they won’t add as much sweetness to the muffins and will be harder to mash.
- Add some flavor to your muffins by sprinkling 2 teaspoons of cinnamon into your muffin batter.
- You can check to make sure your muffins are done baking by poking a few with a toothpick. As long as the toothpick comes out mostly clean you can remove the muffins from the oven.
This sounds SO good! I truly believe in banana supremacy. Anything with banana in it, or banana flavoured, tastes amazing 😋🙌