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.
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Thank you so much!!
perfect blend of deliciousness.
Great to hear!! Thank you so much for your amazing and appreciated review! xo
They were amazingly delicious! I would definitely try this again.
I’ve been looking for a great banana bread recipe and these muffins were a hit! Cupcakes needed around 25 mins to bake and were super moist!
So great to hear Rita!! Thank you so much for you awesome review and yes Ghirardelli is the bomb!! 😉
Made the banana chocolate chip muffins today they are soooooo delicious. I will always use this recipe. I agree to use Ghirardelli Chips they are the best. I don’t use any other chocolate chips but Ghirardelli. Thanks so much for this wonderful recipe.
Yay, I’m so happy you bookmarked these for later! That makes my day! So happy to hear everyone loved them! xo
These came out perfectly! Added this recipe to my favorite muffins list on my iPhones “bookmark” section. I doubled the recipe (8 bananas) and it was perfect! Gave me 30 regular muffins. I tried without liners and with liners. I preferred the unlined ones as she recommended since they are so mouse they came right out! I took a knife around the edges that seemed stuck and popped them right on out onto cooling racks! My toddlers love these! Hubby and I too.
Absolutely amazing! We live in highlands ranch colorado. The muffins turned out perfect! Made 24 mini muffins and 5 big muffins. Best tasting homemade muffins we’ve made! Popped out of our silicone mini muffin Pan easily (first recipe to not stick in them). Thank you so much for this recipe! I could praise this recipe forever! Can’t wait to share it with friends and family!
That’s so awesome to hear Ismat! Thank you so much for commenting! I appreciate it so much! xo Happy Mother’s Day!
Hi there,
Normally I do not like banana muffins or loaf but I had 2 banana sitting so I tried it, baking with my toddler and 2 other toddlers in my home childcare. And I will tell you this honestly, THE BEST BANANA MUFFINS! My husband liked them and so did the children and so did I! So thank you very much, will definitely bake these again!
Tried this recipe for the first time today and they turned out amazing, this recipe is a keeper! Moist and delicious! However, I used milk chocolate chips instead of semi-sweet, just a personal preference!
Thank you!
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That sounds amazing, I love your modifications! These muffins are so adaptable as you can tell! Thank you so much Whitney for your kind comment! xo
My family and I love these muffins. I make a double batch and I use ghee, dairy free chocolate chips, coconut sugar and soy free eggs. I place them in big 6 muffin pan… I cook them for about 50 minutes. Talk about perfection
So easy to bake and so yummy! My only recommendation is to bake it for 23-25 minutes to give them that golden brown edge. Or maybe it’s because my bananas added a bit more moisture than expected! Will definitely bake again.
These are my all time favourite banana muffins! I’m a terrible baker but always love to try muffins ,because yum chocolate chip banana is perfection. These are perfect for a non baker like me. I have a stoneware muffin pan so my cook time is a touch longer. Thanks for this simple delicious recipe!
That’s great Kate! Thank you so much for your comment and rating! xo
These were so easy to make and came out so good!
That’s the kind of feedback we love! Thank you so much Mia!! xo
perfect cant get enough
These are perfect for using the sugar-free chocolate chips! I do the same 🙂 I’m so happy to hear you added these to your go-to banana muffins for future! Thank you so much Danni!!
Love all of your substitutions and additions Kaytelyn! I’m so happy to hear you’ve added these to your go-to muffin list! Whoooohoo! Thank you so much!!
You use hard butter and then melt it Chelsey. 🙂
These are amazing! Only minor change I made is I used sugar free chocolate chips instead of regular ones. They were so good they didn’t even last a day in my house before they were gone. This recipe is saved for my go too with banana muffins.
This recipe made the most delicious & moist muffins! I substituted 1/2 called for amount of chocolate chips for butterscotch chips, 1/2 called for amount of sugar with light brown sugar, and added about 2 TBSP of ground flax seeds for a little pop of nutrition. They turned out fabulous and will be my new go-to muffin recipe. Thank you!
Hello. just wondering if you use 1/3 cup of hard butter then melt it. or do you fill up a third cup of melted butter?
Sounds like something wrong with your measurements. Hopefully you try them again. 🙂
This could have been 100% user error but I either filled the cups too much or messed up a measurement. The batter was runnier and did not set.
So happy you are on board with these muffins Amy and your grandson too! Thank you so much!! That is awesome to hear!
I made these for the first time a couple of months ago, and I’ve made them about five times since then! My grandson LOVES them. I stretch the batter to fill 18 muffin cups so they don’t disappear so quickly. Thanks for a wonderful recipe.
That is great to hear Tara! Woohoo! Thank you so much!
This is the banana chocolate chip muffin recipe I KEEP coming back to! So yummy. Thank you!
You are so sweet Mary! Thank you so much for sharing the recipe and your kind words! I’m so happy to hear you love them!! xo
It probably depends how full and how big the bananas are, but I’m so happy they turned out for you Dawn! xo Thank you so much for trying them!!
I made these muffins this morning.
We love them.
15 muffins baked perfectly for 18 minutes.
Thank you for every one of your step by step directions and suggestions..
I have shared this recipe with my favorite bakers!
Be well.
Stay safe.
These were really good! I had to bake mine for 30 minutes as they were raw at 20
Awesome! Did you use a muffin pan? Interesting Darci!!
Delicious! My oven isn’t working well so I actually made mine in an air fryer at 300* for about 10 minutes. Came out perfect!
We live in Indiana, and we got a ton of snow as well. I’m so happy to hear your muffins were so yummy and sounds perfect with hot chocolate! YUM!! Thank you so much for trying it Tamara!!
I made these during our snow storm here inMichigan. The oven kept the house warm! These muffins turned out wonderfully yummy! Thanks for the great recipe! I love them! Went perfect warmed with a cup of hot chocolate this morning
I’m so ecstatic that you and your son found them delicious! Thank you so much Teresa for your input! Woohoo!
Made these as recipe called out except I used milk chocolate chips ( that’s all I had) and I added a cup of chopped walnuts. My son that doesn’t like banana bread nor nuts in food took a bite out of my muffin and proclaimed that it was absolutely delicious.. I think so too.
Yes it is. Sounds like you needed to bake them more. Everyone’s oven temps are different.
My muffins didn’t bake through and sink .Are you sure the temperature is correct??
I make banana chocolate chip muffins regular ly. These are by far our favorite recipe, very moist and chocolaty,!
This was a great way to use up my very ripe bananas. I added some peanut butter chips along with the chocolate chips and the outcome was heavenly.