- If you love bananas and chocolate you're gonna die
for my banana chocolate chip muffins.
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where I,
John Kanell,
teach you how to make delicious homemade dishes
to share with your family and friends.
These banana chocolate chip muffins will be ready
before you know it.
So let's get started.
First off,
set that oven to 375.
You want it nice and hot
'cause this recipe comes together in a snap.
We're also gonna melt one third
of a cup of butter,
that's 75 grams.
Let it cool down slightly
so it's not piping hot when we pour it in.
I'm lucky enough to have some ripe,
ripe bananas.
These are like on the cusp of throwing away.
They're giving a lot of banana smell.
If your bananas are not ready yet pop them into
the oven 350 for 10 minutes.
Let them blacken up and get gooey.
And then they'll be ready to use.
It's that easy.
For the dry ingredients,
we want one and a half cups of flour,
that's 180 grams.
No, no, no.
Zero that scale,
180 grams.
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To get these to puff up,
I want one teaspoon of baking soda,
half a teaspoon of salt.
And as usual,
I will caution you that if you're using fine grain salt,
use less of it.
And the last semi-dry ingredient,
sugar's actually a wet ingredient,
but we're adding it in any ways,
is two thirds of a cup,
113 grams of sugar.
You can let me know in the comments
if you like to add any spices to this.
Cinnamon goes in really well,
but there's so many things you can add
to make this your own.
Set that aside,
we're gonna mush some bananas now.
For this recipe,
we're gonna use three medium bananas
and you can see they're falling apart.
That's how you want them.
You want them to be like right on the edge.
You can mush these bananas up all the way.
if you want to have it really nice and smooth.
I actually like chunks of banana.
So I'm gonna leave some big pieces
in there.
I'm just gonna use a fork to mush these up.
But you could use like a potato masher
or anything you want,
even your hands.
Chocolate and bananas is such an amazing combo.
And I love making this,
especially because my boys Locklan
and George are muffin crazy right now.
Any muffin,
they are are gonna be so pleased with.
So this'll be another treat after dinner.
Okay, nice and mushy.
Look at that.
It's giving you a lot of banana flavor.
One room temperature egg
and my favorite,
one teaspoon of a nice vanilla.
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So good.
Give it one more mix.
And now for that delicious melted butter.
Oh yes.
♪ This what I will do ♪
Okay, now we're gonna add
the dry into the wet and fold it together gently.
You want these muffins to rise up,
be really tender and just melt in your mouth.
So if you over mix the batter,
they're gonna be kind of dense
and like just not as good.
You don't want gummy muffins.
You want delicious ah muffins.
Now just fold it in gently.
You don't have to be crazy.
You could actually even use a whisk
for this if you wanted to.
But I like using a spatula 'cause I really know
when the batter has just come together.
In my recipes,
if you go to preppykitchen.com,
you'll see that I say mix until almost combined
and mix until just combined.
So today we're gonna mix this batter
until almost combined and then add the chocolate chips.
So I want to see that there's still some pockets
of flour hanging out hither and thither.
And then,
we're gonna add our chocolate chips in,
one cup of chocolate chips.
And today I'm using semi-sweet.
You will reserve a handful though.
That's for the top afterwards.
I'm just gonna dump these in now.
Fold together until you see
a nice distribution of chocolate chips.
And just like that,
the batter is done.
Pop those papers into a muffin tin.
I like my muffins to have papers.
I know some of you like the crunch.
We're gonna fill these up all the way.
Normally for a lot of cupcakes,
you fill them up two thirds of the way,
but we want these to be nice and high.
Plop those in there,
let the oven do its work.
It's supposed to make 12 muffins.
I think I overfilled these.
So today I got 11 muffins.
I think my bananas were slightly smaller than usual
but 11 to 12 muffins distribute.
So it's mostly filled to the top.
We're gonna top these with some more chocolate chips now.
And they go into the oven.
Just give a nice generous distribution of chocolate chips.
Now we're gonna pop this into the oven 375
for 18 to 20 minutes,
or until the centers are set.
You can use a toothpick to check if you're not sure.
In you go,
these are fresh out of the oven.
That's amazing.
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That is really good.
I'll see you in the next video.