Hi everyone Sam here from SugarSpunRun.com.
Today I want to show you how to make my all-time favorite banana muffin recipe.
This is a really simple recipe with a really great flavor.
To start, you're going to need three really ripe bananas. As you can see, these
are pretty brown and that's great. It's going to give your muffins the best
flavor. Go ahead and peel your bananas and add them to a large bowl, and use a
fork to mash the bananas.
To make sure that mine are really well mashed, I like to bring in a potato masher and use that too.
Once your bananas are well mashed add a quarter cup of canola or vegetable oil.
and 1/4 cup of melted unsalted butter. We'll use a mix of both butter and oil
for the softest possible muffins with the best flavor.
Stir these together.
Then add a 1/2 cup of granulated white sugar and a half cup of light brown sugar.
Once those ingredients are well combined add two large eggs and a
tablespoon of vanilla extract.
Finally, add 1/4 cup of buttermilk.
Stir this in.
Now set your wet ingredients aside and we'll prepare your
dry ingredients. You'll start with 2 cups of all-purpose flour, and add one and a
half teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, and 1/2 teaspoon
of salt stir these ingredients together until they're well combined.
Now bring back your wet ingredients and add your dry ingredients to your wet ingredients
Gently fold your dry ingredients into your wet ingredients.
Be careful not to over mix your muffin batter.
Now you will need a muffin tin lined with paper liners.
Scoop your banana muffin batter into the muffin tins filling each cavity
about 3/4 of the way full.
This recipe makes about 15 muffins so if you want to use all of your batter you will need a second muffin tin.
Next we're going to go ahead and prepare the
streusel topping for these banana muffins. Now while this topping is
totally optional. It's really good it's a brown sugar base and it adds a nice
little extra texture to the muffins. you're going to start with a half cup of all purpose flour.
Add 1/2 cup of light brown sugar and a quarter teaspoon of
salt, and use a fork to stir these ingredients together until they're combined.
Once the ingredients are combined, add 1/4 cup of cold unsalted
butter and cut that into your streusel ingredients.
Continue to cut in the butter using a pastry cutter until your streusel topping resembles coarse crumbs.
Once your butter is well mixed in and your streusel resembles coarse crumbs,
you can add it to the tops of your banana muffin batter. Bring back your
muffins and add the streusel topping evenly over each muffin.
Okay, now we are ready to bake these banana muffins. You're going to need your oven preheated
to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. Add the muffins to the oven at 425
degrees and bake them for eight minutes. Once the eight minutes have passed, leave
the oven door closed but reduce the heat of your oven down to 350 degrees
Fahrenheit. Make sure you leave the oven door closed that's very important.
Once you've changed your oven temperature to 350 degrees, continue to bake the muffins
for another seven to eight minutes. By starting with a higher temperature of
425 degrees it allows your muffins to start to rise and get those nice big
muffin tops that we all know and love. Then when we reduce the heat to 350 they
continue to cook on the inside without burning on the outside. This is going to
give you the best softest muffins. When your muffins have finished baking the
tops should be nice and tall the edges will be lightly golden brown some of the
streusel may have baked off onto the side that's completely fine. And that is
how you make these perfectly soft, fluffy, banana muffins. These are so soft and
moist and the insides have the best flavor.
I think you guys are gonna love these muffins. So go ahead try that let me know what you
think and I'll see you next time.