Easy Chocolate Chunk Banana Muffins
These soft and moist banana muffins are packed with chocolate chunks! They're made with brown butter, giving you so much flavor. Plus, you don't need a mixer to make these chocolate chunk banana muffins!
Servings: 12 muffins
Calories: 323kcal
Equipment
- 12 cup muffin tray
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ cups mashed bananas about 3-4 medium bananas
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- ⅓ cup sour cream room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 oz chocolate bar chopped
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425°Fahrenheit/218°Celsius and adjust the rack to be in the middle of the oven. Place 12 liners in 2 muffin pans, leaving every other muffin cavity empty.
- Place the butter in a small saucepan and place over medium-low heat so the butter melts. Use a rubber spatula to stir until the butter begins to foam and sputter. You should start to see small white milk solids at the bottom of the pan. Once those turn a golden brown and the butter smells nutty and toasted, pour into a bowl and let cool for 10-15 minutes.½ cup unsalted butter
- In a small or medium bowl, whisk the flour with the salt, baking soda, baking powder and ground cinnamon. Set aside.1 ¾ cup all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon kosher salt, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pour both sugars into the cooled brown butter and whisk together.½ cup light brown sugar, ½ cup granulated sugar
- Whisk in the eggs, mashed bananas, sour cream, and vanilla extract.1 ½ cups mashed bananas, 2 large eggs, ⅓ cup sour cream, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pour the dry ingredients in and use a rubber spatula to fold together until just combined.
- Stir in the chopped chocolate bar, but keep a few pieces to the side.5 oz chocolate bar
- Pour the banana muffin batter into your prepared liners to the top then sprinkle over the extra pieces of chopped chocoloate.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 5 minutes, then lower the temperature (without opening the door) to 350/175 and bake for an extra 14-16 minutes. Let the muffins cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
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Notes
My recipes have been developed and tested in metric grams. I highly recommend using a weighing scale and measuring out your ingredients the metric way. I have provided a conversion to US cups but please note that I haven't tested the recipe with this method.
I make sure that all of my ingredients are at room temperature before I start the recipe, so pull out all of the ingredients about an hour or two before you start baking.
Salt: If you don't have kosher salt, halve the amount of salt called for in the recipe. 1 teaspoon kosher salt = ½ teaspoon fine salt. I'm using Diamond Crystal Kosher Salt and not Morton Salt which is too salty for this!
Sour Cream: if you don't have sour cream, use full-fat yogurt or Greek yogurt.
Chocolate: use any type of chocolate you like, I've tested this recipe with semisweet and dark chocolate but you could also use milk or white chocolate. You can also swap out a chopped chocolate bar for chocolate chips.
Storage: keep in an airtight container at room temperature for 2 days, or in the fridge for five days.
Freezing: freeze baked and cooled muffins in a freezer bag. Let them thaw in the fridge or at room temperature.
Nutrition
Calories: 323kcal | Carbohydrates: 44g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 0.3g | Cholesterol: 55mg | Sodium: 341mg | Potassium: 240mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 24g | Vitamin A: 344IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 55mg | Iron: 3mg
