One heck of a tasty muffin. Good enough to hide a couple of bananas just to use for muffins later. Plus it’s an easy (3/10) bake.
I had the bananas and decided to go for muffins this time. A great decision. I read about ten recipes, but the best ones seemed to have something in common. They controlled the liquid components. By that, I mean all the non-dry things like the bananas, eggs, etc. are added together and only enough milk added to make 2 cups total. It works great.
I’m naming “How to Make the Best Banana Nut Muffins” at Noble Pig as my inspiration, but it could be several others. I did up the baking powder (a lot)
Rating
We loved them. Enough said.
Notes: not a lot this time. Do not over mix the batter and just pour the batter into the cups and let it settle in by itself. Do not pack it in. The sugar and PAM topping forms a nice crust so do not skip on the sugar.
Other Banana Nut Recipes
Cream Cheese Filled Banana Bread
A couple of bananas and a few other things and you’re good to go.
Preheat oven to 350 (not convection this time). Mash the bananas well in a 2 cup measuring cup.
Melt 1/3 cup of butter in the microwave. About 25 seconds depending on your microwave.
Add one egg to the banana and mix until well combined. Add the butter, 1 1/2 t vanilla and 2 T coffee. Add just enough milk to make it 2 cups.
You need 1/2 cup of chopped nuts. I used walnuts, but they were whole, so I chopped them. I used about 3/4 cup since I like walnuts. Use pecans or other nuts of you wish.
Combine the nuts with 1 1/2 cup AP flour, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 t salt, 2 t baking powder, 1/2 t each of baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
Mix wet into dry and mix only until all the dry is incorporated. Do not over mix. Here you see I forgot to wipe the egg into the banana before but it works OK here just don’t mix too much.
Prepare 12 cup cake baking cups. I gave the pan a good spray of PAM so they won’t stick. Pour the batter into the cups.
Sprinkle the tops with a generous amount of sugar. Spray the sugar with PAM.
Bake until a toothpick comes out clean. For me 23 minutes. Some variability due to oven should be expected.
Other Muffin Recipes
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Really Good Banana Nut Muffins
Ingredients
Wet
- 2 bananas - ripe
- 1 egg - large
- 1/3 cup butter
- 2 tablespoons coffee
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Dry
- 1 1/2 cup AP flour
- 3/4 cup sugar - plus more for the top
- 1/2 cup walnuts - chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 (not convection this time). Mash the bananas well in a 2 cup measuring cup.
- Melt 1/3 cup of butter in the microwave. About 25 seconds depending on your microwave.
- Add one egg to the banana and mix until well combined. Add the butter, 1 1/2 t vanilla and 2 T coffee. Add just enough milk to make it 2 cups.
- You need 1/2 cup of chopped nuts. I used walnuts, but they were whole, so I chopped them. I used about 3/4 cup since I like walnuts. Use pecans or other nuts of you wish.
- Combine the nuts with 1 1/2 cup AP flour, 3/4 cup sugar, 1 t salt, 2 t baking powder, 1/2 t each of baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
- Mix wet into dry and mix only until all the dry is incorporated. Do not over mix.
- Prepare 12 cupcake baking cups. I gave the pan a good spray of PAM so they won’t stick. Pour the batter into the cups. 8) Sprinkle the tops with a generous amount of sugar. Spray the sugar with PAM.
- Bake until toothpick comes out clean. For me 23 minutes. Some variability due to oven should be expected.
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If you like this recipe or find it useful, the pleasure of a nice 4 or 5 rating would be greatly appreciated.
Nutrition is for one serving. Number of servings is stated above and is my estimate of normal serving size for this recipe.
All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
Abby
Five stars. Seriously, the best muffins I think I’ve ever eaten. This will be a new go-to recipe!
Phil St. Pierre
The drumstick and thigh recipes are grand. I love your 7-2-11 and this is so simple to bake. One thing ,the house fills with smoke when i bake the thighs so I simply take them out to the grill in a deep pan on a grate with foil on the bottom and close the cover . After 35 minutes at 450 they are just great and picture perfect browned … thanks for what you do and I look foward to future gems from you. And the photos are perfect .
Diane Roark
These look delicious! I love banana muffins. Blessings, Diane Roark