Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
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These are the most amazing, fluffy and moist Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Such a simple recipe with just the right balance of banana and chocolate. You definitely won’t be disappointed with this easy banana chocolate muffin recipe, as you can tell from the rave reviews!
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Why We LOVE this Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins Recipe
Because, this is such a simple muffin recipe with just the right balance of banana and chocolate. The perfect combination of flavors! You just mix ’em up in less than 5 minutes prep time and bake for 20 minutes.
This recipe is a great way to use up ripe bananas when you have some on hand! Perfect to have on hand when you want banana muffins for breakfast and for snacking throughout the day.
They always come out super fluffy, moist and Perfect-O! So yummy and delish! That’s what sets these banana chocolate muffins apart from other muffin recipes! Make up a batch and see!
What Are Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins?
Banana Muffins are a quick muffin version of Banana Bread. They start with a thick batter that consists of mashed bananas, chocolate chips and simple pantry ingredients.
Our moist and fluffy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins are so easy to make and they smell so good baking in the oven and even better going into your mouth!
Bananas and chocolate are like a perfect match made in heaven! I used Ghirardelli Chocolate Chips in these yummy banana choc chip muffins because I love Ghirardelli!
I promise, you’ll want to make these Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins over and over again! Plus, your family will be so happy!! Such a quick & easy muffin recipe!
Ingredients You Need For Banana Muffins Recipe
Easy Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffin Recipe
- 4 ripe bananas, mashed
- unsalted butter, melted
- sugar of choice
- egg
- vanilla extract
- baking soda
- salt
- All purpose flour or Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free flour
- Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate chips or mini chocolate chips
How to Make Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
- Grease your muffin tins.
- Peel bananas and throw them in a large bowl with the melted butter and smash it all together with a fork.
- Keep blending until the mixture is creamy and smooth, not chunky.
- Add sugar, egg and vanilla and mix or whisk together just until combined.
- Stir in salt and baking soda.
- Add flour and chocolate chips and mix until just combined. Do not overmix!
- Divide into muffin tins.
- Bake until cake tester or toothpick pulls out cleanly for about 18-20 minutes.
- After removing the muffins from the oven, give them a couple minutes to cool off a little, and then remove them and transfer to a cooling rack.
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How to Store Muffins
- Room Temperature: Store cooled fluffy banana chocolate chip muffins in a ziplock bag or an airtight container at room temperature for up to 4-5 days.
How to Freeze Muffins
- To Freeze: cool muffins completely before wrapping and freezing. Wrap securely in freezer wrap, or place in freezer bags, getting out as much air as possible. Muffins can be stored frozen for up to 3 months.
- Muffins can be thawed completely at room temperature, or heat frozen muffins in the microwave by placing unwrapped muffin(s) on napkin, microwave-safe paper towel or plate. Microwave on HIGH about 20-30 seconds for each muffin.
Why Use Ripe Bananas for Muffins?
- Ripe bananas are softer and sweeter, so they’re perfect for baking when you want delicious banana flavor. As they ripen, they turn starches into sugars, making them taste even better. That’s why recipes call for ripe bananas.
Can I Substitute Frozen Bananas for Fresh?
- If you’re using frozen bananas instead of fresh ones in your recipe, make sure you drain the water.
What’s the Secret to Moist Muffins?
- Adding the right amount of melted butter in this recipe is key for making a moist muffin. This fat is what makes the muffin soft and delicious, so don’t reduce the amount listed in the recipe. Plus, we’re adding mashed bananas and egg!
Why Are My Banana Muffins Dry?
- Banana muffins can turn out dry if there’s too much flour. Too much flour makes them dense and hard. To make sure your muffins don’t turn out like this, make sure you use the right amount of flour – just enough to hold all the ingredients together.
- Also, don’t overcook your muffins. If you do, they’ll become tough and dry. Bake them just right — not too long and not too slow.
Does Baking Soda Make Muffins Fluffier?
- Muffins usually use baking soda or baking powder. These ingredients make the muffins fluffy and help them puff up when they bake. We’re using baking soda in these, but if you wanted to use baking powder as a baking soda substitute, you can use triple the amount of baking powder instead.
How Can I Tell if My Muffins Are Done?
- Insert a wooden pick into the center of one of the center muffins. If the pick comes out clean or with a few crumbs, the muffins are done baking. Outer muffins might be ready before the center muffins.
Helpful Baking Tips for The Best Banana Muffins
- Preference not to use liners, because the muffins are so moist they tend to just stick and be messy, unless you lightly spray with them with non-stick cooking spray right before baking.
- These banana muffins are meant to be light, and airy. When you overmix the batter, it crushes the air bubbles and ruins the fluffy texture we’re going for. The less mixing the lighter the muffins.
- Don’t overfill the muffin tins. That way no mess in your oven or overflow.
- Don’t underbake or overbake the muffins. Take the muffins out of the oven at the right time. If you take them out too soon, they may not be cooked in the middle and can be sticky. If you bake them for too long, they may become dry instead of moist and fluffy.
- Removing muffins from muffin pan. After removing the muffins from the oven, give them a couple minutes to cool off a little, and then remove them and transfer to a cooling rack.
- Cool muffins completely before wrapping and freezing.
Add-ins for Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
- We love adding chocolate chips to our banana muffins, but you could add some toffee, walnuts or pecans, or some dried cranberries or dried cherries for a flavorful twist!
Hands down, these are some of the best dang muffins I’ve ever encountered. That’s why these are my ‘go-to’ Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe always! Now let’s make some of these yummy, fluffy & moist muffins! 🙂 For other muffin ideas, go here.
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Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist!
Ingredients
- 4 ripe bananas, medium or 1 & 1/3 cups of mashed banana
- ⅓ cup melted butter cooled
- ⅔ cup sugar or sugar of choice
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- A pinch of salt
- 1 ½ cups all purpose flour or Bob's Red Mill gluten-free flour or 1/2 cup Purely Amazing GF Flour
- 1 cup Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Grease your muffin tins
- Peel bananas and throw them in a big bowl with the melted butter and smash it all together with a fork.
- Keep blending until the mixture is creamy and smooth, not chunky.
- Add sugar, egg and vanilla and mix just until combined.
- Stir in salt and baking soda.
- Add flour and chocolate chips and mix until just combined. Do not overmix!
- Divide into muffin tins.
- Bake until cake tester or toothpick pulls out cleanly for about 18-20 minutes
- After removing the muffins from the oven, give them a couple minutes to cool off a little, and then remove them and transfer to a cooling rack.
Notes
Nutrition
When you say you changed for 18 muffins did you change the servings for measurements or use the batter for 12 muffins? Sorry, just trying to clarify…If you are making the recipe for 12 muffins, you might be over-mixing, you don’t need to… or adding in too much banana, which will make them denser. Hopefully that helps. (If you are trying to make 12 muffins and stretching it to 18 muffins, they will be more like bread because they are thinner and probably baking too long.)
Great to hear Megan! Thank you so much for letting me know! xo That’s so awesome!
Hello. I don’t know why but mine keeps turning out to be like bread. I changed for 18 muffins and followed exactly. Help?
This is my new go to banana chocolate chip muffin recipe. Thank you! They are incredible! We use silicone liners on a baking sheet to cook them. They need about 25 mins because the silicon but slip right out of the liner without the need for spray.
I can’t believe how easy this recipe was and how yummy the muffins turned out!!! They were so moist and tasty!
I just made this recipe today and it tastes really good! My hubby loved it and he said it would be great with some vanilla ice cream! LOL I’ll keep this recipe for sure!!! Thank u for sharing it!
I’ve made many banana breads, banana muffins, banana cookies in the past. I have to say…this recipe is probably sitting in my top 3! They are DELICIOUS!!! I am eating one as I’m typing – a day old – and the muffin is still moist, fragrant, and just the right amount of bounce. I mixed half of the sugar with brown sugar (but i do with most recipes that involve chocolate) and it turned out great.
Will definitely be making these again!
Absolutely! Hope you enjoy Evangeline! xo
Hi, I i haven’t tried these yet, but I added walnuts to the batter. Was that a good choice?
Thank you so much Bonnie for sharing! I’m happy to hear they worked out for you! xo
These are so delicious,I made two dozen.
Yes try the monkfruit Grace! They will definitely be awesome and thank you so much for loving them. That means so much to me! xo
Super delicious and moist! Made these for my 17mo and 5yo. They loved them! I even snuck one for myself, i made 12 muffins with this recipe and 1 muffin is worth 9 points of the blue Weight Watchers program. Because of that point count I almost didn’t eat it. But I did and it was so worth it!!! Next time I am going to use my sugar substitute (monkfruit sweetener) to lessen the points for me.
But this is definitely going to be a house classic!
Thanks Sal, I’m glad you enjoyed it. Yes the banana adds sugar, but you can reduce it as you did with less sugar and Lakanto rocks. I love that sugar! The recipe is correct and thank you for your input! xo
Great recipe; the only issue I noted ways the batter was sickly sweet. Way too much for me . I’m wondering if there is a typo and it’s 1/3 cup sugar not 2/3. The bananas have a lot of sugar to begin with. I used lakanto sweetner thank goodness with equals the sweetness of sugar without the glycemic index and calories.
Sounds delicious! Thank you so much for your ideas Cyndy! xo
Have made them a few times. The second time, I made them with berries and bananas instead of chocolate. Very good!! Think I am going to try chocolate and berries with the bananas next time.
Happy Day! 🙂
That could be it, I’m not sure. What I am sure about is that these are the best muffins my family has ever had!
Maybe the oven was preheated enough? Not sure, but glad they worked out for you Hailey! Thank you for sharing! xo
For some reason, my muffins just didn’t cook at all after 20 minutes, so I raised the temp to 375 and left it in there for 15 more minutes and it was just perfect.
Yes you can Susan, enjoy!
Could you use semisweet chocolate chunks?
Christina, I hope you figured this out, but anywhere from 8-15 minutes.
Making these now! But I’m using mini muffin tins. What time do you suggest I cook them for in mini muffin tins?
I’m happy to share! Thank you so much for trying it Donna! xo
Thank you so much! Great to hear! xo
This is my very favorite banana muffin recipe of all time! I used espresso chips on one of the many batches I’ve made & they were perfect. Thank you so much for sharing this recipe 🙂
my friend made these and i tried them yesterday and they were delicious!! not too sweet, not too much banaan, not too much of anything. very well balanced. very mosit but not like a messy cake. she added some pecans adn those were good. im making a batch rn !
Dana, I would bake it anywhere from 45 to 70 minutes. I haven’t done it as a loaf, but usually when I do them in my oven, it’s usually 50-60 minutes or more. I’m so happy to hear about the devouring experience of your friends. Thank you so much for sharing! Happy Baking! xo
Yay! Thank you so much Effie. I’m so happy to hear it’s a favorite! xo
These are the best chocolate chip banana muffins!! Everytime I make them people DEVOUR them. So moist but hold their shape! Thank you for this wonderful recipe; it’s always my go-to 🙂 Also, just wondering, if you were to make this as a loaf instead, what should you do differently (temp/baking time)?
A favorite at our house!!
Ours too! Thank you so much Katrina for sharing!
My favorite chocolate chip banana muffins!
Made these today. So moist and delicious.
I’m going to have to try that combo! Maybe we’re gonna have to bake up a batch soon! Thank you so much Stacie! xo
Every time I make these, they turn out AMAZING!! Always perfect! Enjoyed by everyone in our family. My son sneaks them off the cooling rack haha!
**My husband and I like to add peanut butter chips to ours for a banana-milk chocolate-peanut butter version. VERY tasty ????
Me to Stacey! Everyone here loves them! Thank you so much!
This is my go to recipe when I have ripe bananas! Everyone loves them 🙂
Thank you Charlene! Glad you enjoyed!
So glad you enjoyed! Thank you Charlene!!
Delicious. So moist and easy.
I love the idea of mixing the chips up! Especially with peanut butter 🙂 Thank you so much Cheyenne!
I’m so excited you love the way they taste Kristin! Thank you so much Kristen for your experience! xo
Just made these they smell divine will try them soon but I’m sure they’re delicious
These muffins are absolutely incredible. Super moist and flavorful. I’ll use fewer chips next time to highlight the banana flavor.
Delicious! Instead of 1 cup of chocolate chips I used 1/2 cup chocolate chips & 1/2 cup peanut butter chips.. Kid approved!