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posted by Christy Denneyon Feb 1, 2022 (updated Mar 4, 2023) 323 comments »

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Banana Muffins are moist with a little cinnamon and nutmeg and topped with tons and tons of crumb topping. These are the most delicious banana muffins and perfect for a healthy breakfast! My favorite way to use up ripe bananas.

BANANA MUFFIN RECIPE

These are the best Banana Muffins and are a great way to use your overripe bananas.

This is one of those easy recipes that the whole family loves that you can have in the oven in under five minutes. The topping on these is so good you might be tempted to make these all “muffies”. Next time, if you’re feeling adventurous add some chocolate chips. I love this Chocolate Chip Banana Bread with those flavors.

HOW TO MAKE BANANA MUFFINS

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 10 cups in the muffin pan, or line with muffin liners.
In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients : 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg and melted butter. Stir the wet ingredients into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
For the crumb topping: In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in 2 tablespoons butter until mixture resembles wet sand. You can use your hands too to incorporate the mixture. Sprinkle streusel topping over muffins.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool and store in an airtight container.

WHY DO YOU USE OVERRIPE BANANAS IN BANANA BREAD

The reason we use brown bananas in banana bread is because the riper the banana the naturally sweeter it is making the perfect muffins. The starches in the banana begin to convert to sugar. So don’t throw away those bananas with brown spots.

No mixer needed here. In fact, muffins are better when you mix by hand because you’re more likely not to overmix them which makes for a tough muffin.

The best part is the topping. Try to sprinkle as much as you possibly can on top and then you might have a tad left over which I ate.

My sisters and I used to eat brown sugar by the spoonful growing up. Weird, huh.

As with banana bread or any other muffin, these are almost better the next day because the banana flavor taste starts soaking in making for a moist banana muffin.

I’ve made these muffins a million times. This time when I made them I had just put them in the oven for a couple of minutes when I looked over to the egg that was supposed to be in the batter sitting on the counter.

Ugh. Good news, they actually were fabulous without. Didn’t even miss it. So if someone you know has an egg allergy just know that these are great without any eggs.

HOW TO MASH BANANAS

You can mash bananas two ways:

Use a fork to mash small pieces of bananas until soft.
Add chunks of banana to a stand mixer with the paddle attachment and let it beat away.

HOW TO FREEZE BANANA MUFFINS

To freeze these banana muffins, let them cool completely. Next, wrap them in plastic wrap and then place them in the freezer in a large Ziploc bag. To eat them, thaw on the counter at room temperature.

CAN I ADD NUTS?

Yes, you can add chopped pecans or walnuts to the batter.

OTHER BREAKFAST RECIPES

French Toast Recipe
Cinnamon Roll Breakfast Bake
Cheesy Baked Eggs
Jelly Roll Pancakes
Confetti Bacon Hash Brown Casserole
Martha’s Breakfast Casserole
Blueberry Croissant Puff
Cinnamon Roll Breakfast Bake
Fluffy Pancakes

OTHER HOMEADE MUFFINS

As you can see we love muffin recipes and have quite of few of them on the blog. Here are some of our favorites:

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Blueberry Streusel Muffins
Blueberry Lemon Muffins
On-the-Go Breakfast Muffins
Apple Muffins
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Muffins
Coconut Lime Chocolate Chip Muffins

Banana Crumb Muffins

4.61 from 188 votes

Banana Muffins are moist with a little cinnamon and nutmeg and topped with tons and tons of crumb topping. This is the best homemade banana muffins recipe perfect for breakfast!

Ingredients

Batter:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 bananas, mashed (about 1 1/2 cups)
3/4 cup white sugar
1 large egg, lightly beaten
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Topping:

1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons unsalted butter

Equipment

muffin pan

Instructions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease 10 muffin cups, or line with muffin liners.
In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture just until moistened. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups.
For the crumb topping: In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, 1/4 cup flour and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Cut in 2 tablespoons butter until mixture resembles wet sand. You can use your hands too to incorporate the mixture. Sprinkle topping over muffins.
Bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean. Cool and store in an airtight container.

Notes

Source: adapted from Allrecipes . Doubled topping.

Serving: 1g, Calories: 295kcal, Carbohydrates: 51g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 9g, Saturated Fat: 6g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 2g, Trans Fat: 0.3g, Cholesterol: 41mg, Sodium: 280mg, Potassium: 177mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 30g, Vitamin A: 310IU, Vitamin C: 3mg, Calcium: 46mg, Iron: 1mg

Cuisine: American

Course: Breakfast

Author: Christy Denney

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originally published on Feb 1, 2022 (last updated Mar 4, 2023)

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323 comments on “Banana Muffins”

Sheri — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 @ 19:57:52 EDT Reply
Amazing! How long do these last?
- Christy Denney — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 @ 02:31:58 EST Reply
  a few days!
Terikah — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 @ 13:10:25 EDT Reply
Wow. This was the first time making muffins and they came out amazing. I added some pecans to the topping and a dash of cardamom. The muffins were perfectly moist. Definitely my go to recipe.
- Christy Denney — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 @ 00:41:52 EDT Reply
  So glad to hear that!
Ams — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 @ 15:27:23 EDT Reply
These are without a doubt the best banana muffins I ever made
Thank you so much for posting the recipe.
- Christy Denney — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 @ 00:53:12 EDT Reply
  Thank you!
Edith — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 @ 09:32:09 EDT Reply
Perfectly DELICIOUS! Im a stay home mom and I love baking things for my kiddos and one of the things they really enjoy is BANANA MUFFINS. I tried this recipe and I LOVEEEE it. Thank you!
- Christy Denney — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 @ 01:22:10 EDT Reply
  So glad you liked it!
Alicia Segovia — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 @ 20:59:50 EDT Reply
Love these I made them once and family and friends loved loved them. So I made them again with pecans and chocolate chips because we love chocolate and they were the best
- Christy Denney — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 @ 01:28:10 EDT Reply
  Awesome!
Shawkins — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 @ 13:32:51 EDT Reply
You didn’t scroll far enough. Because all her measurements are at the bottom, just like how every recipe website does it. You gave her a bad rating without even reading the whole article to double check that measurements were in fact, there. That’s silly and clearly you just like to be problematic online. I’ve been making these muffins (absolutely amazing) for a couple years now and the recipe has ALWAYS been there. Maybe pay closer attention next time.
Sarah — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 @ 06:06:00 EDT Reply
I absolutely love this recipe! The only note I would add for the author is that the in my experience it definitely takes me personally more like 15-20 minutes to prep this. But other than that, it’s wonderful!
Brenda Courtney — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 @ 10:27:36 EDT Reply
I made these a couple years ago and loved them. Had some bananas that were to the throw away stage and looked your recipe up again!! So glad I did! The topping is what puts these muffins as my favorite. Also, the muffins aren’t too sweet!! Best banana muffin recipe as far as I’m concerned!!
- Christy Denney — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 @ 19:44:11 EDT Reply
  Thank you!
Forbiddenk — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 @ 15:11:30 EDT Reply
Delicious only issue is my crumble seemed fine until it got close to finishing it flattened out idk if the butter was suppose to be room temp or what 🙁
- Christy Denney — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 @ 19:55:03 EDT Reply
  Weird?
Meg — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 @ 12:21:55 EDT Reply
So delicious. Put it in our families favourite recipes file. Added chocolate chip and walnuts. 🙂 Thank you!
Olivia — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 @ 08:43:49 EDT Reply
Yum!! Eating them as I type this! I cut the sugar down to 1/3 cup plus two table spoons and still thought they were amazing. I think when there’s sugary crumble on top you don’t need so much sugar in the batter. I only used a dash of cinnamon in the batter because I dont like when all I taste is cinnamon in my banana bread.