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!
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
Disclaimer
Nutrition information is estimated as a courtesy. If using for medical purposes, please verify information using your own nutritional calculator. Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
More Creative Banana Bread And Banana Bread Muffins Recipes
I hope your family enjoys these banana bread muffins as much as mine does. I think I’ve made them three times this month so far, my kids keep requesting them! I have some other great recipes you’ll want to try as well.
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Debbie Cole says
Delicious! I didn’t change one thing and everyone totally loved them.
Seasons01 says
This is very easy to make…
At first I had the oven at 350 degrees… But because it said turn oven to 400 degrees that is what I did and left it there… I did not turn the oven down until 12 minutes into the baking time. Because I realized while I was cleaning up 400 degrees would burn these in 20 minutes.
Then I opened the door to cool it off but then the oven started to heat up again… so I’m assuming mine will be over done on the bottom. I could see a dark brown on the side and top was starting to tan..>But they were not even close to being done.
So for those of you like me… read full recipe and highlight what is different… I’m sure they will be fine for now.. they smell awesome… I can’t wait to make them again…
Arlynn T. says
Loved using honey instead of sugar. My toddler loved them. I added chopped pecans to half of my recipe which gave those a nice nutty flavor, too! Definitely needed to bake at least twice as long in my oven! After only 20 minutes, the bottom half and middle was not cooked despite the toothpick coming out clean.
Christi Johnstone says
Glad you liked them, Arlynn. I think that using honey in place of sugar, thus adding more liquid, likely impacted the baking time.
Jan says
Best banana bread muffins I’ve bake. I added chopped apples and cinnamon to 4 of them.
Soomin says
This is our new snow-day muffins. The kids loved them. Thank you.
Christi Johnstone says
So glad you liked them!
Anna says
Decided to give these muffins a try and have to say my family devoured them ! My husband and kids absolutely loved them ! They were so easy and yet so delicious .
Christi Johnstone says
Anna, so glad that your family enjoyed these!
Fran says
Great recipe and yummy muffins. In addition to the nuts i also added butterscotch nibs. Turned out really decadent and delicious.
Bev says
I added 1/2 tsp of Watkins Cinnamon Holiday Baking Spice.
Delicious.
Thank you.
Rebecca Lynn Camp says
Muffins turned out beautifully and are delicious. This will definitely be my go to banana muffin recipe. Very easy to whip up multiple batches as I made 5.(Cause I had A lot of bananas :D)
ruth E dupuis says
made these twice now, make a double batch also large cup muffins for my husband lunch he said one a day is enough. so good, i added an apple and a pear this time with the banana. delish.
gonna be a regular recipe here. thank you
. i freeze these also two at a time in a zip lock bag. hubby loves them.