Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Prep time: 15 Min - Cook time: 20 Min - Total time: 35 Min
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup bananas, about 2 medium or 1 1/2 large bananas, mashed
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon King Arthur Pure Vanilla Extract
- 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon butter-rum flavor or coconut extract, optional*
- 1/3 cup milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- 1 cup King Arthur White Whole Wheat Flour
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, pre-toasted in a 350°F oven for 8 minutes, if desired
- 1 cup cinnamon chips, optional but tasty
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly grease 12 to 14 standard muffin cups. You'll use the larger number of cups if you include the full amount of all three add-ins: chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon chips.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl or the bowl of your stand mixer, beat together the butter and sugar till smooth.
- Beat in the mashed banana, then the egg, flavorings, and milk.
- Add the baking powder, baking soda, salt, and flours, stirring till smooth; if the mixture has a lot of lumps, beat at a higher speed until they've nearly disappeared.
- Stir in the chocolate chips, walnuts, and cinnamon chips.
- Heap the thick batter into the prepared muffin cups, mounding them quite full; a muffin scoop works well here. Sprinkle the tops of the muffins with coarse white sparkling sugar, if desired.
- Bake the muffins for 20 to 23 minutes, until a cake tester inserted into the center of one of the middle muffins in the pan comes out clean.
- Remove the muffins from the oven, and tilt them in the pan to cool a bit; this will prevent their bottoms from becoming soggy. As soon as you can safely handle them, transfer the muffins to a rack to cool completely.
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Notes:
Tired of Banana Bread? Try these. Credit to King Arthur Baking
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