Description
Moist and chocolatey recipe for double chocolate banana muffins with cocoa powder and chocolate chips (for 12 muffins)
Ingredients
- 110 g (1 stick) Butter - softened
- 120 g (1/2 cup) Sugar - granulated
- 1 egg - large at room temperature
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 3 Bananas - about 300g
- 80 g (1/4 cup) Buttermilk or Greek yoghurt
- 125 g (3/4 cup) Flour - all-purpose
- 40 g (1/3 cup) Cocoa powder - unsweetened
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 140 g (2/3 cup) chocolate chips - semi-sweet
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 428°F / 220°C and line a muffin tin with paper liners.
- Place the chopped bananas in a small bowl or plate and mash them with a fork.
- Place the softened butter with the sugar in a large bowl and mix with an electric mixer for about 2 to 3 minutes until you have a creamy butter texture.
- Then add the egg, vanilla and buttermilk and mix again for 1 minute to incorporate.
- Add the mashed bananas and mix again with the mixer.
- Finish with the dry ingredients, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, salt and 3/4 of the chocolate chips and fold in with a flexible spatula or wooden spoon.
- Pour the muffin batter into your prepared muffin cups and fill them completely to make large muffins.
- Sprinkle the top with the remaining chocolate chips.
- Turn the oven down to 392°F/200°C and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes, until they are puffed up on top.
- Check baking by sticking a knife blade or toothpick into the center of a muffin, it should come out clean or with a few baked crumbs.
- Let the muffins cool a bit before removing them from the pan and then let them cool completely on a wire cooling rack.
Notes
Storage: about 5 days at room temperature placed in a storage box with a lid and up to 1 week in a refrigerator.
In the freezer: Place in a storage bag or a box and keep for up to 3 months in the freezer.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: muffins, cake, breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 muffin
- Calories: 244
- Sugar: 20.1 g
- Sodium: 160.2 mg
- Fat: 12.1 g
- Carbohydrates: 33.6 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 36.1 mg