Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins: These days we end up having a lot of over ripe bananas. I think its the warm temperature. So I have been freezing sliced bananas to prepare smoothies and milkshakes and have also been baking with it. I tried a couple of recipes including the chocolate banana cake and a banana muffin recipe.
I have posted a recipe for banana muffins earlier and received feedback from some of the visitors that it didn't turn out as good as expected. Actually it came out well and tasted pretty good. Since some of them didn't get it right I decided to try another recipe and here it is.
I found this recipe for banana chocolate chip muffins in the Taste of Home baking book. I have used bananas itself as an egg substitute and have increased the quantity of baking powder. These muffins came out as good as the previous recipe. It raised perfectly and tasted very good too. I would say that its pretty much low in fat too with just ⅓rd cup of canola oil. Everybody in our house liked it and so did my neighbor's family too.
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Recipe
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup sugar
- ½ cup quick cooking oats
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
Wet Ingredients:
- ⅓ cup oil I used Canola
- 1 and ¾ cups bananas ripen, mashed, about 3 medium
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F/190C for 15 mins. Lightly grease and line the muffin tin with paper liners.
- I pureed the bananas using a hand blender with a tablespoon of water in a large mixing bowl. You could simply mash them with a fork or potato masher too.
- To the banana mixture add the sugar and oil; beat it well with a whisk or electric beater.
- To the wet ingredients add the flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder and salt; mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Fill each muffin cup ¾ths full; around 3 tablespoons per cup. Bake for 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pan to wire rack. Do not leave it in the tin for more than 5 minutes because the paper liner will start giving out moisture and the muffins will become soggy.
My Notes
- If you want to eat the muffins while it is still warm I would suggest spraying the paper liners with non stick spray, so that you can peel off the muffins easily or wait until its cooled completely to remove the paper.
- ¾th cup of mini chocolate chips looks like a LOT while adding to the batter but the muffins did taste very good. So if you are health conscious you could substitute chopped nuts for some of the chocolate chips.
Vanitha says
Hi Madhuram, I made these muffins today, it came out very well and was tasty. My kids loved it. Thanks for the recipe.
Madhuram says
You're welcome Vanitha.
Angela says
Just made these muffins with my 2 year old, my 3 bananas didn't make 1 3/4 cups so I topped it up with applesauce. We made it as mini muffins, so the recipe made 48 minis and I baked them for 10 mins. Great recipe!
Madhuram says
Thanks Angela.
Neerja says
Hi madhuram
I made these first with APF and Then with WWF , both turned out extremely nice...and it took exactly 10 mins to mix and 20 mins to bake, wow! That was simple and easy!and what a great way to use bananas ! My 6year old is fussy with nuts and bananas , but thanks to your recipe he polished these off in no time...very nutritious too, and I could serve it to my vegetarian friends as well so no leftovers!
Thanks , keep up the good work
Neerja
Madhuram says
You're welcome Neerja. If your kid liked this one, you should definitely try the Vegan Banana Bread too. It's the best.
Laxmi Iyer says
HI,
Tried this receipe. Tastes good for those who prefer less sugar. Honestly my kids didnot enjoy coz the sugary content is less. Elders enjoyed as it tasted just perfect. May be next time i shall add 1 cup sugar instead of 3/4th to this receipe and see.
Madhuram says
Thanks for trying it Laxmi. In our house we generally prefer less sweet baked goods. Did you add chocolate chips? There is an option to rate the recipe, so you could if you want to.
Payal says
Hi Madhu,
I made this muffin and it was superb. I am baking it every week it's very tasty.
Payal
Madhuram says
Thank you very much Payal.
keerti says
what other ingredient can be used instead of bananas in this receipe?
Madhuram says
Any pureed fruit should be fine including applesauce. You may have to increase the quantity of sugar though because ripened bananas are naturally sweet.
Mollie says
I had to google eggless muffins this morning because, as usual, we are out of eggs. And also didn't have enough banana or chocolate chips. I used half an apple, thinly sliced and two large, very ripe, bananas. I also cut the oil down to 1/4c. They were delicious!
Excellent recipe. Next time I won't curse when I see that no one has replaced the eggs....
Madhuram says
Thank you very much Mollie.
jeyashrisuresh says
I tried this twice,turned out so nice and infact it is my first baking attempt and my kids loved this like anything and esp my daughter who turned 10 today loved this a lot as i made her fav one.Thanks a lot for the recipe.
Madhuram says
Thanks Jeya. Could you rate the recipe?
Lisa says
I just made these and wow! just wha I hoped for. Only change I will make is that I will use walnots instead of chocolate chips. I sprinkled decorating sugar on top, what a picture. Thanks
Madhuram says
Thanks for trying the recipe Lisa.
Denise says
I made these today and they were very tasty. I think I mixed too much at the end. It was not a liquid batter but a lot thicker, like cookie dough. They were not as fluffy as I like, but the kids loved them! Maybe I'll try it again and see how it works!
Madhuram says
Denise overmixing does make the muffins/quickbreads denser than light. You could add some liquid (water/milk) if the batter is thick.
Denise says
thank you for your input! I also realized that after putting them in a ziploc bag and waiting til the next day to try again made them better! Maybe just letting them set? I don't know. But I can't stop eating them! ha!
Denise says
Oh and it easily made 20 muffins instead of 12. Maybe because it was so thick?
Meera says
Hi,
If I replace APF with whole wheat flour, do I need to make any changes
to the other ingredients ...or I can leave the rest as it is ?
thanx
meera
Madhuram says
Meera, from my personal experience somehow I don't like the taste of banana muffins made with whole wheat flour because they taste like South Indian appams (paniyarams). So If you haven't tried whole wheat flour but would like to experiment with it, start trying with 1 cup of APF and 1 cup of WWF. I also have read that using freshly squeezed orange juice while baking with whole wheat flour would give better results. So for this recipe you may try using 1 and 1/2 cups of mashed banana and 1/4 cup orange juice. Also make sure that you do not overmix the batter. The more you mix the more dense/tough the muffins will be. Some lumps in the batter is okay too.
Meera says
Thanx Madhuram for ur kind comments!! I will try and
let u know how it turned out. 🙂
MEERA says
dear Madhuram, I tried the muffins yesterday...and they came
out just perfect. I made few changes : I added two Tb of Flaxseed
(immersed in hot water for 20 min) and 1 tspn of Cinnamon to it.
yesterday they were smelling of banana but today it's gone.
the muffins were ready in dot 20 min.
thanx a lot.
Madhuram says
You're welcome Meera.
Benita P Toppo says
i tried the without choco-chips and oats version..however i added
vanilla essence,pistachios and semisweet chocolate(i dont like it) ...also i
replaced oil with white butter( i know the amount of calories)...
the muffins are a big hit ...the crust was over by the time the
muffins cooled..great recipe for vegetarians..thanx
keep up the good work
god bless
Benita
Pugaa says
Hi Madhuram,
Thank you for the wonderful recipe. Like you mentioned in the
beginning, your previous recipe did not turn out well. I had
tried that once.
But this one is superb. I tried ur recipe (exactly) last week, and
it turned out superb. After that I have tried the recipe again
twice with but, this time I replaced oats with walnut, and sugar
with brown sugar. It turned out really good as well, and my guests
simply loved it! Thank you again for sharing 🙂
Madhuram says
Thanks for giving this one a try Pugaa.
lc says
hi,
may i know what the oats are for? nutritional value, or for taste, or
texture?
Jeya says
Hi Madhuram,
Yummy muffins. My 2 year old son liked it very much. I used 1/4 cup each of walnut, choco chips and raisins, instead of 3/4 cup of choco chips and it tasted great.
Kavita says
Hi there......the recipe was so simple and sure very healthy...i tried it out today but somehow, found that the outcome was not as I had expected. The out layer of teh muffine is pretty hard and the color is no wher near to what your muffin pictures show, I used 2 bananas instead of 3 as mentioned in the recipe - can that be a reason?
Madhuram says
Kavitha, by outer layer do you mean the muffin tops? That could be because of higher oven temperature, or baking for more time than mentioned. Also bananas add moisture and softness to the muffin. So leaving it out could also be the reason. Since you omitted 1 banana, you should have compensated it with some other liquid like milk etc, so that the muffin batter would have been in the correct consistency.
Pooja says
Hello,
I like your recipes especially since they are eggless and easy.
I tried these banana chocochip muffin and just like Wendy, my batter was also so dry that I could mix in all the dry ingredients in it. I also added some milk and the batter was still very thick and sticky.
The muffins tasted good but were thick and a little sticky. could it be because of insufficient baking powder or some other problem.
Please suggest.
Madhuram says
I think it depends on how ripe the bananas are and how much you get mashing it. So depending on that you may have to add some more liquid to the batter.
Kristie says
Yum! Just made these - substituting brown rice syrup for the sugar
and carob chips for the choc chips. So good...
Madhuram says
That's great Kristie. Thanks for trying the recipe.
Leesa says
I made these today, very good 🙂 I had also considered adding pumpkin, might be my next try 🙂
Madhuram says
Thanks Leesa.
sony says
hi madhurams
Thanks for your reply.... i keep trying your recipes but this banana chocolate chip muffin was the best...it was so yuuuuummmmyyyyyyy that i could not stop eating them all. thanks for all your great recipe. take care