Equipment
- 3 bowls one for wet ingredients, one for dry ingredients & one for mashing bananas
- 1 hand blender for blending butter and sugar
- 1 spatula
- 1 spoon for filling muffin cups
- 2 muffin pans
- baking cups for lining muffin pan
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
Ingredients
- 1 cup bread flour
- 1 cup pastry flour (or all purpose flour)
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter softened and slightly melted
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup milk
- 3 medium bananas (ripe) mashed
- 2 tbsp sugar to sprinkle on top of muffins before putting in the oven (optional)
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, add sugar and softened/melted butter. With a hand mixer on low speed, cream butter and sugar until fluffy for a few minutes. Add eggs one at a time and mix until blended, then add the vanilla extract.
- In a separate bowl, sift dry ingredients (bread flour, pastry flour, baking powder and salt) together.
- Next, add dry ingredients gradually to the egg/butter mixture, alternating with milk.
- Mash ripe bananas in a bowl and then add to mixture.
- Grease muffin pans well with butter, make sure to grease tops of pans as well. Line muffin pans with baking cups.
- Pile mixture high in each muffin cup. Sprinkle sugar over the tops to create a sugar crusted top (optional).
- Bake at 375 degrees for 25 minutes for regular size muffin pans and 20-22 minutes for mini muffin pans. Muffins are done when the top is lightly browned and a toothpick comes out clean after inserted in the middle of the muffin.
Notes
This recipe works great as a base recipe for making blueberry muffins as well. If you choose to make blueberry muffins. Exclude the bananas, and use 2 1/2 cups of blueberries. Separate out 1/2 cup of blueberries and smash them, then stir into the mixture by hand. And take the remaining 2 cups of blueberries and coat them with the dry mixture before adding them to the mix. Add to mix by stirring in by hand being careful not to over mix.
You could also simply add some blueberry muffins to your banana muffins to make Blueberry-Banana Muffins! Feel free to get creative!