Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins Recipe (one banana)

When you’ve got one over-ripe banana on the counter, then I’ve a straightforward breakfast or snack recipe for you. These Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins made with only one banana! This small batch of banana muffins is ideal for utilizing the final tremendous ripe banana within the bunch!

You’ll love this Chocolate Chip Banana Muffin Recipe

I’ve all the time bought one lonely brown banana on my counter. If I had a band, I’d identify it One Brown Banana, and the quilt artwork would seize the loneliness, in fact!

I purchase an enormous bunch of bananas for the week, and between my child banana pancakes in my child breakfast concepts rotation and my double chocolate banana muffins, most are gone shortly! Talking of, I ought to actually add to my child breakfast concepts recipe assortment, as a result of I have been experimenting so much these days.

Since we’re solely utilizing 1 banana, this recipe makes a small batch of banana muffins; 6 muffins, to be actual!

Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins elements

• Banana. Only one lonely banana, the extra brown spots the higher. Utterly brown is ok, too!
• Egg. One massive egg, egg yolk and egg white.
• Vanilla Extract. I all the time bake with the actual factor: pure vanilla.
• Oil. You should use any flavorless oil, corresponding to canola, avocado or grapeseed oil.
• Flour. All-purpose flour that has been fluffy, spooned right into a measuring cup and leveled with a knife.
• Baking Soda. We’re simply utilizing baking soda in these muffins for unimaginable rise, no baking powder at the moment.
• Granulated Sugar. You should use white granulated sugar or coconut sugar right here; the selection is yours. Do not use brown sugar, though–it has a bit an excessive amount of moisture.
• Chocolate Chips. Semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips are the perfect right here, however you need to use darkish chocolate and even milk chocolate chips for further sweetness.

I virtually all the time have all of those elements available, which suggests I can have banana chocolate chip muffins anytime! Any chocolate chips are positive here–dark, semisweet, milk and even white chocolate chips! In case you’re low on chocolate chips, chop up a 3 ounce chocolate bar.

 Do bananas should be brown for muffins?

Sure, bananas should be spotty brown (the darker, the higher) for muffins, as a result of it means the banana is absolutely ripe and aromatic. Totally ripe bananas give the perfect taste to banana baked items.

How ripe ought to bananas be for muffins?

The extra brown spots the higher. Utterly brown is ok, too! Actually, the riper, the higher.

The right way to make Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Make these Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips with youngsters!

This can be a good recipe for baking with youngsters, as a result of the whole lot comes collectively in a single bowl. I’ve discovered that youngsters do higher with small batch recipes within the kitchen, as a result of they lose curiosity after scooping only a few cookies or muffins out. Small batch recipes additionally create much less mess within the kitchen when cooking with youngsters, too!

If you wish to scale back the sugar a bit on this recipe for teenagers, you completely can. Equally, if you happen to’re baking egg-free, merely substitute the egg with ⅓ cup of applesauce. In case you all the time bake with out eggs, you want my eggless banana bread recipe and my chocolate chip cookies with out eggs, too!

Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe storage

These muffins may be saved for in the future on the counter at room temperature. Past that, it’s best to put them in an hermetic container and retailer within the fridge for as much as 1 week. They will also be frozen for as much as 3 months in air-tight meals storage luggage. To serve, microwave for 15 seconds.

Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins Recipe FAQs

Why is my banana muffin exhausting?

In case your muffins are exhausting, it looks as if you overcooked them, I’m sorry.

How are you aware when banana muffins are finished?

To check a muffin to see whether it is finished, insert a toothpick within the middle of the muffin. Whenever you take away it, it ought to solely have moist crumbs clinging to it and no moist batter. Be aware of poking into chocolate chips in order that your information isn’t skewed.

How do you retain banana muffins moist?

Retailer them in air tight containers with a slice of bread.

What makes muffins extra fluffy?

My favourite trick for tremendous fluffy muffins is to preheat the oven 50 levels increased than regular, and decrease it down when you add the muffins to the oven. So, for this recipe, preheat the oven to 400, and decrease the warmth to 350 proper whenever you add the muffins to the oven.

Subsequent time you may have a longing for banana muffins, seize one banana and make this recipe! I do know you are going to ask, so let me say YES, you’ll be able to simply double it, too. You too can make a model with pumpkin: chocolate pumpkin muffins.

Different one banana recipes:

Double Chocolate Banana Muffins

One Banana Bread

Banana Sheet Cake (makes use of 1 cup of mashed banana)

Vegan Banana Muffins

Banana Pudding for Two