- Hey guys, today I'm gonna show you
how to make a delicious banana muffin
with three different toppings.
I find that sometimes people prefer walnuts,
others prefer chocolate chips
and some people even like a crumb topping.
So, today we're gonna please everybody
and do one batch of muffins
with three different toppings.
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Okay, let's get to making the muffins.
So, the first thing you wanna do
is begin with two very ripe bananas.
If you don't begin with a ripe banana,
your muffins will not have a very strong banana flavor
and they also won't be very sweet.
Now, if you have found yourself in the house
without any ripe bananas,
I'm gonna show you my favorite hack
for ripening a banana in 20 minutes or less.
This is how you do it.
You take out a large sheet pan,
line it with foil, because this does get a bit messy,
the longer these bananas are gonna sit in the oven.
So, it just makes for easier cleanup.
Place the two bananas on your sheet pan.
Then pop them in the oven
at 300 degrees Fahrenheit, for 20 minutes.
And basically what you wanna do,
is at the 10 minute mark, flip them,
and you'll see the skin of it
will already start turning brown.
But then once 20 minutes have passed,
the whole thing is like black.
And then what you wanna do
is remove the peel
and once inside, you'll see those bananas
will be soft and mushy
and it's just like a banana
that's been sitting in your counter for over a week.
But instead you did it in 20 minutes.
Allow your bananas to cool off a little bit
and then place them in a bowl.
And then to your bananas,
you're going to add two eggs.
Then you're gonna add three quarters cup of sugar.
Then we're gonna do three quarters cup of melted butter,
which is going to add a lot of richness to the muffins.
And then we're also
gonna add a quarter cup of vegetable oil,
which is gonna add a lot of moisture
and make our muffins really tender and moist inside.
And to that you're also gonna add,
two teaspoons of vanilla extract.
And then I also like to add my half a cup of water.
I just find that, that is the secret ingredient
to a light and fluffy muffin.
You gotta have the water.
And then you can whisk that all together, until combined.
And then you can set that aside.
And then in a medium size bowl,
we're going to add one and three quarters cup
of just all purpose flour.
Two teaspoons of baking powder
and a half a teaspoon of salt.
And you can whisk that all up.
Then just add your dry ingredients
to the wet ingredients.
So, once your batter is all ready to go,
then I like to bake these in a jumbo muffin tin.
I think that's how you
get those really elegant looking muffins
that look like they came out of the local coffee shop.
But you could actually make these
in a 12 cup muffin tin,
there's enough batter to do either.
So, the choice is yours.
And then I'm also gonna be using
some parchment paper, muffin liners.
I like the parchment paper
because I think it blends in really nicely,
with the muffin.
And makes for pretty display, as well.
And then to fill your muffins,
I like to use an ice-cream scoop.
So, you're gonna do about a scoop and a half
in each muffin well.
So, normally, if I'm making a bunch of different toppings,
I would just do two of each.
So, two with the walnuts,
two with the chocolate chip
and two with the crumb topping.
So, the crumb topping recipe I'm gonna show you,
would be enough topping for two muffins.
But if you wanted all your banana muffins,
have crumb topping,
I would just triple this recipe, okay.
In a small bowl,
you're gonna add,
a tablespoon of sugar,
a tablespoon of brown sugar,
a half a cup of all purpose flour,
a quarter teaspoon of baking powder
and an eighth of a teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
And you can whisk that all up
until it's combined.
And then you're also gonna add in,
three tablespoons of melted butter,
a quarter teaspoon of vanilla extract.
So, whisk this all together
and you'll start to get, like, a pasty mixture.
And then you also wanna add two tablespoons
of old fashion oats.
And you'll get a nice crumbly crumb.
So, you can distribute this crumb topping
across two muffins.
And then you can add some chocolate chips
to the other muffins.
I like to use the dark chocolate chips,
because I find that dark chocolate
adds a really nice richness to it
that's not too sweet.
But you could also use semi-sweet, if you prefer.
And then the last muffins,
they're gonna get the walnuts.
Then you can bake these
at 400 degrees Fahrenheit,
for just about 22 to 25 minutes.
Just until they're nicely risen and golden brown.
And then I like to dust the ones
that have the crumb topping
with a little bit of powdered sugar.
Because I think it looks really pretty
against the crumb topping.
And you'll see, when you slice into these muffins,
how delicate and light the crumb is.
And how moist and tender they are.
Mixed with the topping of your choice,
you can't go wrong.
There's something for everybody
in this banana muffin recipe.
Now, if you'd like to know
how to make a traditional banana bread recipe,
I highly recommend my Ultimate Banana Bread recipe.
And you can click that annotation
and I'll meet you over there.