These easy banana bread muffins are a delicious way to start your day and they also make a sweet afternoon pick me up. You can mix this recipe up quickly by hand, no mixer required. After making your first batch, this will become one of your go to muffin recipes!
If you have ripe bananas sitting on your counter, print this recipe, get into the kitchen, and in approximately 30 minutes you’ll have a delicious batch of banana bread muffins ready to enjoy. As an added bonus your entire house will smell absolutely divine!
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Making The Best Banana Bread Muffins
Banana muffins can be hit or miss. I’ve had amazing muffins but I’ve also had lackluster ones. This banana bread muffin recipe gets a great big thumbs up from my entire family, the request it often. It’s moist, just sweet enough and has the perfect flavor.
The only downside is how quickly the entire batch disappears, nobody can resist these muffins, especially when served warm.
While I left the nuts out of these due to nut allergies in my family, I think these would be spectacular with walnuts or pecans folded in. I also love to make these as banana chocolate chip muffins or even bananas blueberry muffins.
My kids love these flavorful muffins for grab and go breakfasts, and they are also a popular snack or lunch box addition in my family. Basically, you can’t go wrong with this easy recipe.
Ingredients Needed:
At a glance, full recipe below
- All Purpose Flour
- Baking Powder
- Baking Soda
- Salt
- Ripe Bananas
- Butter
- Brown Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Walnuts, Pecans or Chocolate Chips (optional)
Why Use Ripe Bananas?
Most banana bread and muffin recipes call for ripe bananas. The riper a banana is the easier it is to mash. In addition to being easy to mash, riper bananas are sweeter and more flavorful, which is perfect for banana bread.
You don’t have to use overly ripe bananas, but I do find that these muffins are at their absolute best when they are made with some unattractive, ripe and brown bananas.
Can You Freeze Muffins?
Absolutely! Allow your muffins to cool complete, then place into a freezer bag and store in the freezer. Muffins can be thawed by simply sitting them out on the counter for an hour or so, or placed in the microwave for 20-30 seconds.
Frozen muffins also work great for popping into a backpack or lunchbox as they thaw fairly quickly.
Easy Banana Bread Muffin Recipe
Love chocolate with banana? Try my Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins, Chocolate Banana Cake or my Chocolate Banana Muffins.
Have more bananas to use up? Try my Banana Pancake Recipe or myBanana Bread Pudding Recipe.
Easy Banana Bread Muffins
Equipment
- Muffin Pan
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 medium to large very ripe bananas
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (melted and cooled)
- 3/4 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
- 2 large eggs (lightly beaten)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Prepare a muffin pan with 12 muffin liners.
- In a large bowl, mash bananas until only small chunks remain. Add in melted (and cooled) butter and brown sugar and stir until well combined. Stir in beaten eggs and vanilla and stir until combined.
- In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt, stir to combine.
- Combine wet and dry mixture until just combined. Do not over-mix. If desired, add in optional nuts and stir to combine.
- Divide batter between 12 muffin cups.
- Place in oven and immediately reduce the oven temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, and tops are turning golden brown.
- Remove from oven and allow to cool for five minutes. Remove muffins from pan and serve.
- To save remaining muffins, wrap tightly with plastic wrap and store in the refrigerator.
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Notes
Nutrition
The nutrition facts provided are calculated using a third-party tool and are estimates only. Actual nutritional content may vary based on the ingredients and brands you use, as well as portion sizes. For accurate results, please consult a registered dietitian or nutritionist.
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Love this @!@! I had some bananas left and I finally caved at making this. No nuts. Lil bit of chocolate chips , I don’t think this pan full will last thru the night. I WILL make this again !!!! Yes and very quick and easy
I want to use your recipe but I don’t have unsalted butter. Can I use regular butter? Thanks in advance!
Absolutely! Honestly I’ve personally never noticed a taste difference in anything with salted vs unsalted butter, but people always want to know which to use, so I default to “unsalted butter”. Either will be completely fine.
Thank you so much ?
5 stars
Great easy recipe! I added 1/4 tsp nutmeg and 1 tsp cinnamon just to spice it up a bit.
Turned out perfect! Beautiful recipe.
Hi. I don’t have baking soda. Only baking powder. Is that ok to just use baking powder?
Renuka, I have an entire post about Baking Powder & Baking Soda. While not ideal, you can use baking powder in it’s place, but you’ll want to add twice as much baking powder as the baking soda calls for.
Best banana muffins I’ve ever made! Added cinnamon as well!
The BEST banana bread I’ve ever had!
My muffin pans made 18 standard muffins not 12 as noted in the recipe. Is this recipe designed for 12 jumbo muffins?
Some muffin pans can make a few more, there definitely is some variability not only in standard muffin pans, but also the liners themselves, and then there is variability in how full people fill their muffin cups (with the same instructions some will fill half full, some will fill all the way to the top). People tend to get upset if you overestimate a recipe (it didn’t make enough!) vs underestimate (hey I have a few extra muffins, life is grand!). This recipe should always make at least 12. Hopefully a few extra muffins wasn’t an issue for you!
I live in Alberta and I think these turned out pretty much perfect. They were just slightly dry, but could be an Alberta thing. Then again in no way did it stop me from binge eating them!!
This made such delicious and moist muffins! I used 4 bananas and added 1/2 chocolate chips. Had it with tea, will definitely make these again.