The Best Banana Muffin Recipe
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The Best Banana Muffin Recipe
Description
The Best Banana Muffin Recipe combines mashed ripe bananas with a blend of avocado oil and melted butter to produce a moist and flavorful muffin. The sugars balance sweetness with richness, enhanced by vanilla extract and buttermilk, which contribute to a tender crumb. Dry ingredients such as flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt are gently folded in to avoid overmixing, maintaining fluffiness without toughness. The optional streusel topping adds a sweet, crumbly layer made from flour, brown sugar, salt, and cold butter, cut into coarse crumbs.
The muffins bake at 425°F, resulting in a lightly browned, crisp exterior with a soft, dense interior filled with banana flavor. Filling the muffin liners about three-quarters full helps achieve a uniform rise. This recipe makes about 15 muffins, which may require extra muffin tins or baking in batches. Adding nuts or chocolate chips is easy by folding them in at the end of mixing to add texture and flavor bits.
These muffins suit breakfast, snacks, or dessert, pairing well with coffee or tea. The option to include streusel provides a richer eating experience. The recipe's use of avocado oil alongside butter balances moistness and flavor, and the buttermilk adds subtle tang that enhances the banana's sweetness.
Note that the batter should be mixed just until combined to avoid tough muffins. Pre-mashing the bananas thoroughly ensures even distribution of banana flavor and moisture throughout the muffin.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups banana This is typically 3 large bananas for me, well-mashed, ripe
- ¼ cup avocado oil may substitute vegetable or avocado oil, or vegetable oil or canola oil
- ¼ cup butter melted and cooled at least 5 minutes, unsalted
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ cup light brown sugar tightly packed
- 2 large egg room temperature preferred
- ¼ cup buttermilk room temperature preferred
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
Streusel (optional)
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup butter unsalted, cold
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425F (220C) and line a muffin tin with paper liners*
- Place peeled bananas in a large bowl and use a fork or a potato masher to mash them - bananas should be well-mashed.
- Add oil and melted butter and stir well.
- Stir in sugars until well-combined.
- Add eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla extract and stir well. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together your dry ingredients -- flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add dry ingredients to your wet batter and gently fold in until ingredients are just combined (don't over-mix the batter!).
- Portion batter into prepared muffin tin, filling each liner ¾ of the way full. Set aside and prepare your Streusel topping.
Streusel Topping (optional)
- Combine flour, brown sugar, and salt in a medium-sized bowl and use a fork to stir the ingredients together.
- Using a pastry cutter, cut in your cold butter until the butter is well-worked in and your mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
- Sprinkle streusel topping evenly over each muffin.
- Bake muffins on 425F (218C) for 8 minutes and then reduce the oven temperature to 350 (175C) (do not open the oven door or remove the muffins, just leave them in and reduce the temperature) and bake another 7-8 minutes on 350F (177C). A toothpick inserted in the center of the largest muffin should come out clean or with few moist crumbs (no wet batter) to test for doneness.
- Allow muffins to cool before enjoying.
Notes
- The recipe yields about 15 muffins, so consider the capacity of your muffin tins or bake in batches.
- You can add nuts or chocolate chips by stirring them into the batter just before portioning for added texture.
- To preserve the muffins, store them in an airtight container at room temperature for a few days or freeze for longer storage.
Nutrition Information
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Serving: 15muffins
Amount Per Serving
Calories 281 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 1muffin | |
| Calories | 281kcal | 14% |
| Carbohydrates | 43g | 14% |
| Protein | 3g | 6% |
| Fat | 11g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Trans Fat | 1g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 42mg | 14% |
| Sodium | 173mg | 7% |
| Potassium | 185mg | 4% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 24g | 48% |
| Vitamin A | 247IU | 5% |
| Vitamin C | 2mg | 2% |
| Calcium | 44mg | 4% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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