Lyndsey These wonderfully easy banana mini muffins are the deliciousness of banana bread wrapped into the perfect bite size snack.
Why easy banana mini muffins, do you ask? I have really been struggling to find some school snacks for my son this year. His school has chosen to become tree nut free, and that can make things a little bit complicated for finding snacks he will actually eat. I have been leaning a lot towards fresh fruits, as he can be very picky when it comes to pantry snacks. The bananas that I have bought for snacks keep getting forgotten, or other fruits and snacks are being chosen over the bananas. Bad news… the bananas keep getting way overripe. Good news… I can use them to make banana bread (which my whole family enjoys).
After I made the first loaf of banana bread, an idea occurred to me. These would be the perfect tree nut free snack that my son would actually be excited to bring. What a wonderful treat for a school snack every once in a while! So, for the next batch, I decided to make these into mini muffins instead of a loaf of bread. They turned out fantastic!!!
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Ingredient
- Overripe bananas
- Butter
- Sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
- Cinnamon
- Salt
- Flour
- (optional additions) chopped walnuts or chocolate chips
- Mini muffin pans
- Handheld masher
About Easy Banana Mini Muffins
Bananas – you will want to use bananas that are ripe. Overripe bananas will give you the best sweetness and flavor in this recipe. Additionally, this gives you an excuse to make some delicious baked goods when you have some bananas that are just too far past their prime.
Butter – you will truly want to use real butter for this recipe. You can use salted or unsalted, it won’t make too much of a difference in this recipe. Margarine is not going to provide the moisture and richness that makes this recipe so good. You will want to use this butter melted instead of softened. This will make the consistency you are looking for prior to adding the dry ingredients to your mixture.
Vanilla Extract – I highly suggest that this you use pure vanilla extract in this recipe (well essentially in every recipe). You can use the artificial, but I personally believe that real vanilla extract adds much more flavor and depth to any dish.
You can use this recipe for a loaf pan, or for mini muffins. If you choose to create this in a loaf pan, you can use a 8.5 x 4.5 pan for baking.
Check out the recipe below. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions in the comments below!
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Easy Banana Mini Muffins Recipe
Equipment
- 1 mini muffin pan can use more than one to bake all at once
- 1 Bowl
- 1 potato hand masher
Ingredients
- 2-3 Ripe Bananas overripe is best
- 1/3 cup Butter melted
- 3/4 cup Sugar
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract pure is preferred
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1 tsp Baking soda
- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 cups Flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts amounts as desired, no more than 1 cup THIS IS OPTIONAL!!
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°. Prepare mini muffin pans (or loaf pan if making bread instead of muffins) with nonstick cooking spray.
- Peel and place the bananas in a medium/large mixing bowl. Use the potato hand masher to mash the bananas well.
- Add in the melted butter, sugar, egg and vanilla to the bowl with the banana. Stir well to combine these ingredients.
- Add in the baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt to the bowl. Stir well to combine.
- Add in the flour and stir until just combined. Do not over stir the mixture.
- Use a spoon to transfer the batter into the mini muffin pans, filling about 3/4 of the way full. If you are making a loaf with this recipe, pour all the batter into a 8.5 x 4.5 loaf pan.
- Bake the mini muffins on the middle rack for about 15 – 18 minutes.
- Bake the loaf pan on the middle rack for about 50-60 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and let cool before trying to remove. If the muffins are hard to remove, let them cool longer, and give them a little twist to pop them out.
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Lyndsey,
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by!! These look really delicious!! I will have to try making these…
Thanks so much for sharing!!
Hugs,
Deb
These are perfect for freezing – a breakfast on the go!! Visiting from the Full Plate Thursday party. I’d love it if you visited our party – What’s for Dinner.
https://lazygastronome.com/whats-for-dinner-sunday-link-up-437/
Hi Helen, thank you for visiting and thank you for the invitation. I will check it out this coming Sunday!
I love banana, bread, banana, muffins, all of that! I think these little little bitty ones would be hard to keep around!
Visiting from the Homestead blog. I am glad you shared your recipe. Thank you for coming by.
Laurie
They are a little hard to keep around, but they are so good! Plus they are perfect for my son to bring for a school snack.
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