Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

This recipe was originally published in March 2021. It has since been updated with new images and a new recipe.

These healthy muffins are perfect for quick weekday breakfasts! Whenever I make a batch of muffins, like these or banana carrot muffins, I make sure to freeze a couple. Then when I want a quick and healthy breakfast, I just defrost it in the microwave!

These chocolate chip banana oatmeal muffins are like banana bread but in a muffin. These make such an easy breakfast or quick snack. I recommend making a double batch so you can freeze some! Want to make regular banana bread? Try my brown butter banana bread with chocolate chunks!

Why you'll love these oatmeal banana chocolate chip muffins!

• Banana Bread! These are just like banana bread, but in muffin form!
• Ripe Bananas - This is the perfect way to use up your ripe bananas!
• Filling - The rolled oats will help keep you full.
• Fast & Simple - It takes just 10 minutes to whip up this simple recipe, and you don't need a mixer.
• Meal Prep - This is perfect for meal prep since you can freeze the muffins and have them throughout the week.

Ingredients Needed

• Flour: these oatmeal banana chocolate chip muffins use all purpose flour.
• Sour Cream: a little bit of sour cream is going to make these muffins super moist.
• Bananas: you want to make sure to use bananas that have brown spots and freckles on them! They'll be sweeter and also easier to mash.
• Rolled Oats: I'm using whole rolled oats here, you could use instant oats but the texture will change.
• Chocolate Chips: I used semisweet chocolate chips here but you can use whatever chocolate you prefer!
• Spices: I'm always up for adding some warm spices to banana muffins!

Step by Step Instructions

Step One:Mash your bananas in a large bowl using a potato masher or fork. Add the light brown sugar, egg, butter, vanilla and sour cream to the mashed banana and mix until combined. It is going to look chunky which is fine!

Step One: In a large mixing bowl, whisk together all of the dry ingredients until smooth.

Step Three: Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and fold until everything is well combined. Stir in your chocolate chips, but keep a small handful to the side.

Step Four: Preheat the oven to 350°Fahrenheit/175°Celsius and line a muffin pan with paper liners. Pour the batter into the liners using a ice cream or cookie scoop until it reaches the top. Sprinkle over your reserved chocolate chips, you can also sprinkle over some extra oats. Bake for 25-30 minutes.

Allow the muffins to cool in the pan for 15 minutes before removing them and letting them cool completely on a wire rack.

Expert Tips & Tricks

• Measuring – I highly recommend using a weighing scale and measuring out your ingredients the metric way. It makes a huge difference to your baking and is the most accurate way to bake!
• Fluff and Sprinkle Flour – if you aren’t weighing your ingredients and are using a measuring cup, then use the fluff and sprinkle method to measure your flour. Go to this link here to find out how to do that. If you use too much flour then you won’t have fluffy muffins and they’ll be too dry!
• Room Temperature Ingredients – make sure all of your ingredients are at room temperature before you start baking. Pull out those ingredients from the fridge an hour or two before you start the recipe.
• Muffin Liners - if you don't want to use muffin paper liners, spray each muffin cavity with cooking spray just before pouring the batter in.

Frequently Asked Questions

Storage & Freezing

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