Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins – Sugar Spun Run

These chocolate chip banana muffins are primarily based off my well-loved basic banana muffins. They’re packed filled with chocolate chips and will be made in minutes WITHOUT a mixer! Recipe features a how-to video!

The BEST Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Basic banana muffins are getting a chocolatey enhance in the present day! These chocolate chip banana muffins are tender, moist, and filled with chocolate/banana taste. They’re extremely easy to make and are available collectively in minutes–excellent for a last-minute breakfast deal with!

What makes my recipe the most effective:

• Makes use of two completely different temperatures for tall muffin tops and smooth, tender interiors (similar to my chocolate chip muffins).
• Based mostly off my well-loved banana muffin recipe however scaled right down to make a fair dozen muffins. 
• Simply 10 minutes of prep work with NO mixer required (the truth is, please don’t use one!).
• Seems so fairly with sparkly sugared tops and further chocolate chips. These muffins could be even prettier in my parchment paper muffin liners!

I really like baking with bananas not just for the flavour they supply but in addition their moisture and sweetness too.

Right here’s a brief history on using bananas in baking, when you’d wish to learn extra.

What You Want

The substances in in the present day’s recipe are only a bit completely different than my plain banana muffins. There are a couple of price nothing earlier than we dive in.

• Bananas. Don’t use inexperienced bananas! Identical to when making banana cake, utilizing overripe (I’m speaking black or brown!) bananas will yield probably the most taste right here. I discover it best to make use of a kitchen scale to weigh my bananas and them mash them, however you possibly can definitely mash after which weigh too.
• Sugar. We’ll use a mix of granulated and brown sugar for depth of taste. I additionally wish to sprinkle some additional granulated sugar on high of the muffins earlier than baking; it provides a pleasing crunch and slight sweetness. You should utilize coarse sugar, like turbinado or demerara, as an alternative for a extra pronounced crunch.
• Buttermilk. Buttermilk is a key ingredient for taste and moisture (particularly since this recipe is oil-free)! I extremely advocate utilizing actual buttermilk for finest outcomes, however when you don’t have any available, my simple buttermilk substitute will work in a pinch!
• Chocolate chips. Semisweet chips are my desire, however you need to use no matter sort you want. Milk chocolate could be tasty right here too! For a bakery type look, I like to avoid wasting a couple of chocolate chips for including to the tops of my muffins earlier than they go within the oven.

Enjoyable reality: do you know that baking with bananas didn’t turn out to be widespread in america till the Nineteen Thirties? Till that point, bananas had been a uncommon merchandise in most chain grocery shops, so house bakers had been compelled to bake with different fruits as an alternative. Are you able to think about a world with out banana bread?! Right here’s a brief history on using bananas in baking, when you’d wish to learn extra.

Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the publish!

Learn how to Make Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins

1. Begin by mashing the bananas right into a puree, then stir within the melted butter and sugars.
2. Add the buttermilk, egg, and vanilla and stir till nicely mixed.
3. Whisk collectively the dry substances in a separate bowl.
4. Fold the dry substances into the moist substances till 50% mixed, then add the chocolate chips.

SAM’S TIP: It’s necessary to not over-mix the batter when you add the flour, as this may result in robust, chewy muffins. Cease mixing as quickly as there aren’t any massive pockets of flour left, and no matter you do, do NOT use a mixer!

5. Fold within the chocolate chips till evenly integrated, however watch out to not over-mix or you possibly can create dense, rubbery muffins.
6. Evenly divide the batter right into a lined muffin tin. I like to make use of an ice cream scoop for this!
7. Add a couple of additional chocolate chips and a sprinkle of granulated sugar on high if desired, then bake at 425F for 8 minutes. With out opening the oven door, scale back the temperature to 350F and bake for 7-8 minutes extra till completed.
8. Let the muffins cool of their baking pan for 5-10 minutes, then take away to a cooling rack to chill fully. Eradicating the muffins shortly after baking prevents soggy muffin liners.

SAM’S TIP: When checking for doneness, it’s regular to have a couple of moist crumbs sticking to the toothpick; this means that the muffins are moist and never over-baked!

Incessantly Requested Questions

I’d love to listen to what you concentrate on this recipe in comparison with my basic banana muffins!

Take pleasure in!

Let’s bake collectively! I’ll be strolling you thru all of the steps in my written recipe and video beneath! In the event you do that recipe, remember to tag me on Instagram, and you too can discover me on YouTube and Facebook

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