I adapted this banana muffin recipe from the book Vegetarian (available in Barnes and Nobles as Bargain Priced). These muffins are easy to prepare, not overly sweet; perfect to start the morning or have it with coffee in the afternoon to avoid mid-day snack attack. The original recipe had used 2 bananas and 2 eggs. To make it eggless I used 3 bananas and ¼ cup buttermilk and the muffins turned out great.
My husband loved these banana muffins so much that he himself packed it in his lunch bag for a snack. Usually, when I bake something I place a small piece in a Ziploc bag and keep it in his lunch bag and that will come back home intact. So I did not pack this muffin for him. But later only I noticed that he had packed it for himself. That's like "2 thumbs up" for me!
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Recipe
Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups All purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- a pinch Salt
- ¾ cup Granulated Sugar
- ¾ cup Semisweet chocolate chips
- 6 tablespoons Low fat milk
- 10 tablespoons (1 and ¼ sticks) Unsalted, Melted Butter
- ¼ cup Buttermilk
- 3 Ripe Mashed Small Bananas
- 1 cup (optional) Chopped Pecans
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400F for 15 minutes. Line the muffin tin with paper liners or grease the tin.
- In a medium size bowl combine together the milk, butter and buttermilk.
- In another large bowl sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
- Add the sugar, chocolate chips and nuts to the flour mixture and stir well.
- Slowly stir in the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, but do not overdo it.
- Fold in the mashed bananas.
- Fill each muffin cup with 3 tablespoons of batter.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the muffin comes out clean.
My Notes
- The bananas I used were extremely ripe, so I simply mashed it with a fork. If the bananas are not that ripe you could cut into pieces add few drops of water/milk and blend it in a blender/food processor.
- The original recipe used chocolate chunks. Since I did not have it I went with semisweet chocolate chips. If you have chocolate chunks, chop 5 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate into large chunks and use it instead of the chips.
- The sweetness was perfect for us. Not very sweet like the ones you get in stores. If you have a very sweet tooth you would have to increase the quantity of sugar or chocolate chips.
- You could substitute vegetable/canola oil instead of butter to make it healthier. I have tried it in a couple of other recipes and it works. Since I wanted to finish the butter in the refrigerator I did not do this substitution.
- You could also substitute whole wheat flour for the all-purpose flour. I didn't do it this time because the brand of wheat flour I'm using right now is not good in banana muffins. A couple of days ago I tried a banana muffin recipe with whole wheat flour and did not like the taste. I liked it when I made something similar a year ago, but that was a different brand of wheat flour, so I went with all-purpose flour itself.
Maya says
Hey, I tried these today and they came out great! Used oil for butter and adding a little baking soda too. Thanx for the recipe :)!!
Thank you very much for trying it Maya.
Purvi says
Hello,
Great website! I am trying several recipes from here 🙂 I tried this recipe today but some parts of the muffins seemed uncooked. The part that was cooked tasted awesome though 🙂 so i am even more curious to find why did the muffin cook partially?
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks for trying it out Purvi. Maybe the batter was overmixed or it must have required more baking time (another 2-4 minutes). I'm assuming that you cooled down the muffin before tasting it.
Thanks much!
Purvi
Meeta says
Hi Madhuram,
Can u clarify what is meant by folding of bananas.
regards
meeta
Meeta, folding in means nothing but adding it to the rest of the ingredients and mixing it.
sai says
I made this today with a little twist:
Instead of 3 bananas i used 2 bananas and 2 avocadoes
Instead of low fat milk and butter milk - Soy milk vanilla flavor organic.
came out awesome! great way to make my kids eat avocadoes.
Priya says
Simple but yet delicious, muffins makes me hungry!
Uma says
Lovely muffins. So tempting. 🙂
A&N says
Oh I forgot to tell you that this month and the next is an eggless month for us. So, we are posting some eggless recipes 🙂
I've tried this and they are really tasty. The pics are gorgeous!
roma says
yummy looking muffins. Wish I knew where to find muffin paper cups in Blore.
Sonu says
Nice and simple recipe Madhu.:)
Sonu.
Bharti says
Hey Madhu
I just meant regular whole wheat flour found in the baking aisle as opposed to whole wheat atta at the Indian store.
Looks like you've got banana cake..oops muffins on your mind too 😉 Delicious..2 thumbs up from me as well.
Hema says
Hi Madhuram. Really a superb blog. You always try lot of baking stuffs that too without egg. Even I want to learn from you lot of things, coz I'm also vegetarian. I had been to the eggless cakes and cookies class last week. So I got some knowledge how to prepare cakes and cookies. Will try out some of the dishes from you. You can check my website also. I have some of the North Indian dishes and many south indian dishes. I had subscribed your blog.
Thanks Hema.
Priya Sriram says
I'd love to have it for breakfast Madhu... Looks soo stunning! 🙂
Btw, have you been to Salem? I didnt know you could speak Tamil too.. 😀
ashwini says
Perfect looking muffins Madhu..Yummy..
mangala bhat says
wow ! yummy muffin:) 🙂
vrinda says
Lovely muffins Madhu..
DivyA Vikram says
They look too good Madhu. I too hav planned to bake something for your event..
Madhumathi says
Muffins look perfect.Will make this when i have ripe bananas 🙂
Parita says
Muffins look yummy, I want to make banana muffins from a very long time, may be will make these coming weekend 🙂
Arundathi says
Looks delicious!
Asha says
Excellent looking Muffins. I know they taste yum! 🙂
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