These banana chocolate chip streusel muffins are moist, buttery, and cake-like. (And dessert-like!) Fill and high every with a scrumptious streusel manufactured from brown sugar, cinnamon, walnuts, and chocolate chips. They’re like portioned banana crumb muffins with gooey chocolate chips and cinnamon swirl inside!
Consider common banana muffins as a pair of cozy, reliable sweatpants and in the present day’s chocolate chip studded, brown sugar streuseled model as your over-the-top, sequins and feather-bedazzled blazer. (What, you don’t have a kind of?!)
At the moment’s recipe has lived on my web site since 2012 and initially got here from my pricey pal Amy who makes them each Christmas season. The recipe has actually stood the take a look at of time and so they style each bit as indulgent as they give the impression of being. One reader, Katie, says:
“Not even kidding, by no means in my life have I commented on a meals weblog. I’ve made dozens of various banana muffin recipes and so they have at all times been dry and dense. THIS RECIPE…these are the perfect banana muffins I’ve had in my life! This can be my go-to any longer!“
Banana Chocolate Chip Streusel Muffins Are:
- Satisfying, buttery, moist, and gentle.
- Like common banana muffins, however with a texture improve from crunchy walnuts and melty-soft chocolate chips.
- Layered and swirled with cinnamon swirl, similar to this cinnamon swirl fast bread.
- A good way to make use of up bananas.
- Fairly straightforward, together with the streusel—you don’t want to chop in butter, simply combine a number of substances collectively.
- A scrumptious deal with for breakfast, snack, or dessert.
Primary Baking Elements Required:
Can I Use Frozen Bananas?
Sure, frozen and thawed bananas work on this recipe and you may learn extra about Find out how to Freeze & Thaw Bananas for Baking if you happen to’d like. Two vital issues to recollect:
- The riper the banana, the higher. If you bake with bananas, you wish to use brown, spotty super-ripe ones.
- Pressure off extra liquid. As bananas thaw, they let loose a number of liquid, which may throw off the moist substances in any baking recipe. I at all times suggest draining off most or all of that extra liquid earlier than mashing and measuring them to your recipe.
Begin By Making the Streusel
The chopped walnuts and chocolate chips aren’t within the muffin batter, they’re truly within the streusel together with the brown sugar and many of the cinnamon. You’ll layer the streusel with the banana batter in your muffin liners, then swirl all of it collectively. Mix the streusel substances first, so it’s prepared as quickly because the banana batter is completed.
(Sidenote: be happy to make use of this streusel and swirl it into zucchini muffins or pumpkin muffins!)
Can I miss the walnuts? You’ll be able to substitute chopped pecans for the walnuts, or go away the nuts out solely—you’ll simply have rather less streusel, and never as a lot crunchy texture.
The banana batter is fairly easy and makes use of most of the similar substances as banana bread. Word that we use creamed butter and sugar on this muffin recipe to supply a cakier-style muffin, vs melted butter (or oil) in these banana muffins, that are denser and heartier.
You want a mixer for in the present day’s recipe.
Let’s Layer It All Collectively
Now comes the (considerably) messy half: layering the batter and the streusel. Seize a regular 12-count muffin pan, both greased or lined with cupcake liners. For those who want a advice, this muffin pan and this muffin pan have each held up properly with very common use.
Spoon a number of the batter into every muffin cup—a scant 1.5 Tablespoons every. Subsequent, sprinkle on a scant Tablespoon of streusel in high. Prime that with one other giant spoonful of batter, and end by topping with extra streusel. Use a toothpick of knife to softly swirl it collectively.
My #1 Muffin Success Tip:
Bake at an initially excessive oven temperature. Bake the muffins for five minutes in a extremely popular oven. Then, maintaining the muffins within the oven, decrease the oven temperature. This preliminary excessive oven temperature rapidly lifts up the muffin high. As soon as the temperature is lowered, the facilities of the muffins bake.
I do that in all my muffin recipes.
Description
Tremendous-moist and flavorful banana chocolate chip muffins with layers of crunchy cinnamon streusel.
- Preheat oven to 425°F (218°C). Spray a 12-count muffin pan with nonstick spray or line with cupcake liners. Put aside.
- Make the streusel: Combine all of the streusel substances collectively in a small bowl. Put aside.
- Make the muffins: Whisk the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt collectively in a medium bowl. Put aside.
- Utilizing a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar collectively on medium-high velocity in a big bowl till creamed, about 2 minutes. Scrape down the edges and backside of the bowl as wanted. Add the egg and beat till mixed, about 1 minute. Scrape down the edges and backside of the bowl as wanted. Add the mashed bananas and yogurt, after which beat on excessive velocity till mixed; combination will look curdled and that’s okay.
- Add the dry substances and beat on low velocity till mixed. Batter is thick. Don’t overmix.
- Layer a big spoonful (about 1.5 Tablespoons) of batter into every muffin cup. Sprinkle with 1 scant Tablespoon of streusel. Layer one other giant spoonful of batter over every, utilizing up the remaining batter, then end by sprinkling remaining streusel on high of every muffin. The 12 muffin cups must be crammed all the best way to the very high. With a toothpick or knife, gently swirl the streusel topping with the batter.
- Bake for five minutes at 425°F, then, maintaining the muffins within the oven, scale back the oven temperature to 350°F (177°C). Bake for a further 15–16 minutes or till a toothpick inserted within the heart comes out clear. The overall time these muffins take within the oven is about 20–21 minutes. Permit the muffins to chill for five minutes within the muffin pan, after which switch to a wire rack to proceed cooling, or get pleasure from heat.
- Muffins keep contemporary coated at room temperature for a number of days, then switch to the fridge for as much as 1 week.
Notes
- Make Forward & Freezing Directions: For longer storage, freeze the muffins for as much as 3 months. Thaw in a single day within the fridge, then heat up within the microwave if desired.
- Make as a Cake: Use this banana chocolate chip crumb cake recipe.
- Can I miss the walnuts? You’ll be able to substitute chopped pecans, or miss the walnuts solely. Or do this common banana muffin recipe as a substitute, including in some chocolate chips.
- Frozen Bananas: You should use thawed frozen bananas on this muffin recipe. Thawed bananas are additional moist, so drain off as a lot of the surplus liquid as you may earlier than mashing. See Find out how to Freeze & Thaw Bananas for Baking if desired.
- Yogurt or Bitter Cream: You should use both common or Greek plain yogurt on this recipe (any fats content material) or bitter cream. In a pinch, 1/4 cup (60ml) buttermilk could also be substituted.
- Why the preliminary excessive oven temperature? Like I do for many muffin recipes, bake the muffins for five minutes at a extremely popular temperature. Then, maintaining the muffins within the oven, change to a decrease temperature for the remaining bake time. This preliminary excessive temperature will rapidly carry the muffin tops so that they’re additional excessive, then the facilities will bake in the course of the decrease temperature bake time. This trick makes lovely bakery-style muffins each time.
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