Finally, an easy Banana Muffins Recipe where the flavor of the banana actually comes through. They’re moist and flavorful, just as a muffin should be; we know you’ll love this recipe.
Banana Muffins Recipe
Using slightly less ripe bananas will give a slightly more tart and less sweet muffin, and riper bananas will yield a less tart and more sweet muffin.
You don’t need to have any special skills for this recipe; in fact, it’s an ideal recipe for letting the kids help with. Also, you won’t need to use a stand mixer or electric mixer either, as it can all be mixed by hand.
Another muffin recipe you really should try is our Banana Muffins with Chocolate Chips recipe.
Ingredients for Banana Muffins
8.8 oz (250g / 2 Cups) Self-Raising flour
2.5 oz (75g / 1 Cup) Oat bran
6.5 oz (185g / 3/4 Cup) Superfine sugar
2.8 oz (80g) Unsalted butter, melted
6.2 fl oz (185ml) milk, room temperature
2 Eggs, room temperature
16.9 oz (480g / 4 Medium ripe bananas)
How to make our Banana Muffins Recipe
- Into a sieve: Add the self-raising flour and sift from a height.
- In the same bowl: add the superfine sugar and oat bran.
- Mix: Then make a well in the middle, and set aside.
- In a second bowl: Using a whisk, combine the melted butter, milk, and eggs. Prepare the bananas in a separate bowl by breaking them into smaller pieces.
- Get mashing: With a potato masher or fork, mash the bananas until there are no more hard lumps.
- Combine bananas: with the wet ingredients and stir the banana through.
- Wet and dry: Now add the wet ingredients to the well of the dry ingredients bowl.
- Stir gently: With a silicone spatula or metal spoon, stir the batter gently until just combined, but don’t over-mix.
- Filling the baking tray: Fill around 2/3 of each muffin liner with the batter. Bake the muffins for 18 minutes or until golden.
- Cool: Leave the muffins in the pan for 5 minutes to cool down slightly before removing them from the tray and onto a cooling rack. Wait for them to cool and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 8.8 oz self-raising flour
- 2.5 oz oat bran
- 6.5 oz superfine sugar
- 2.8 oz unsalted butter melted
- 6.2 floz milk room temperature
- 2 eggs room temperature
- 16.9 oz bananas medium ripe
Instructions
- Preheat: Adjust the oven racks so the tray can be placed in the middle of the oven. Preheat the oven to 415°F (210°C). Then line a 12-Muffin pan with muffin liners or coat with butter/oil if you don't have liners.
- Prepare 2 mixing bowls: one for dry and another for wet ingredients.
- In the first bowl: sift the self-raising flour into the bowl, then add the superfine sugar and oat bran, mix well, make a well in the middle, and set aside.
- In a second bowl: Add melted butter, milk, and eggs and whisk together. In a separate bowl, mash the bananas and then add them back to the butter, milk, and egg mixture.
- Wet and dry: Pour the wet ingredients into the well of the dry ones and, using a silicone spatula or metal spoon, stir until just combined, but don’t over-mix. (See note number 1)
- Filling the tray: Fill each muffin liner with the batter to around 2/3 (approx 3 scoops each). Bake the muffins for approximately 18 minutes or until golden.
- Cooling: Allow the muffins to remain in the pan for 5 minutes to cool down slightly before removing them from the tray and onto a cooling rack. Wait for them to cool and enjoy!
Notes
- Don't worry about having some lumps and dry flour still showing in the batter, it's a good sign for light and fluffy muffins.
Nutrition
Can I use ripe bananas?
As mentioned, you can definitely use ripe bananas, the muffins will be less sweet and slightly tart in flavour. Our tip is to use those bananas that you forgot sitting in the fruit bowl, looking almost black. It’s the almost overripe bananas that will give your muffins a sweet flavour and help keep them moist.
Take your banana muffins to the next level
Sometimes you just want to go all out and take things to the next level, go right ahead, we don’t judge!
- Butter: Cut muffin horizontally and add a generous helping of salted butter. The creaminess and saltiness of the butter matches in perfectly with the sweetness of the banana.
- Ice Cream: Adding ice cream pretty much makes everything better. Try heating up a muffin and eating it with vanilla ice cream.
- Chocolate drizzle: White, milk or dark chocolate, it doesn’t really matter! Adding a drizzle of chocolate really is the icing on top.
