Banana Muffins

Spring is here and now it’s time for a mini theme once again!

Our focus is on muffins. They can be enjoyed for breakfast, as a snack, or even as a dessert. You can put many things in muffins. Fruit and berries are often common ingredients as are oats and chocolate chips.

For our first muffin post, we are looking at bananas in muffins. They add the right amount of sweetness and moistness to a hearty muffin.

We had a banana muffin baking day and we made over 500 muffins with bananas that we had in the freezer that turned brown fast in the heat last Summer. We don’t like to waste them so we make muffins for all of our friends and families and of course ourselves.

One recipe that we always use is my Grandma’s Banana Muffin Recipe. We’ve been making these muffins together since we were little.

Banana Muffins

½ cup vegetable oil

¾ cup white sugar

1 cup of mashed bananas or you can use ½ cup of mashed bananas and ½ cup of crushed pineapple which is what we always do

1 egg

1 ½ cup of flour

1 tsp. of baking soda

Pinch of salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. vanilla

Whisk all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl.

In your mixer’s bowl, add in the sugar and oil and mix.

Then add in the eggs and mix.

After mixing in the egg, add your mashed banana in along with the vanilla and give it all a good mix.

Slowly add in your dry ingredients and incorporate well.

Remove the mixing bowl from the stand and stir in the crushed pineapple.

Spoon into lined muffin tins, about ¾’s full is good.

Bake in a 350 degrees oven for 15-20 minutes. All ovens are different of course so it may take less time or in our case more time. Cool on wire racks.

You can add some semisweet chocolate chips into some of the muffins if you can’t do without a little bit of chocolate in your muffins!

This time we threw another banana muffin into our muffin baking day. We made banana oatmeal muffins which I think are so delicious. We actually made a mini version of this muffin back in February so that’s why you’ll see the some mini ones and some big ones. The process is still the same though. 

Banana Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Muffins

1 ½ cup of flour

1 cup of quick oats

½ cup of white sugar

2 tsp. of baking powder

1 tsp. of baking soda

½ tsp. of salt

½ (heaping) cup of semisweet chocolate chips

¼ cup of vegetable oil

2 eggs

¼ cup of milk

1 cup of mashed bananas

Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a bowl.

In a separate bowl whisk the eggs.

Mix in the oil, milk, and bananas.

Add to the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Since we are making so many batches, it was easier for us to add the dry into the wet, but you’re really supposed to add the wet into a “well” in the dry ingredient bowl. 

Lastly, stir in the chocolate chips.

Spoon into lined muffin tins, ¾’s of the way full and then bake at a 400 degree oven for 15 minutes. Cool on wire rack.