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!

Feeling More Chocolate Chip Luv?  Our faves include these Chocolate Chip Toffee Walnut Cookies, these “Phenomenal” Milk Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies, these OMG Chocolate Chip Gooey Bars, Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies and these Homemade Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies!

Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

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!

Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe

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!

Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins, Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist! 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

Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist! recipe

How to Make Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

  1. Grease your muffin tins.
  2. Peel bananas and throw them in a large bowl with the melted butter and smash it all together with a fork.
  3. Keep blending until the mixture is creamy and smooth, not chunky.
  4. Add sugar, egg and vanilla and mix or whisk together just until combined.
  5. Stir in salt and baking soda.
  6. Add flour and chocolate chips and mix until just combined. Do not overmix!
  7. Divide into muffin tins.
  8. Bake until cake tester or toothpick pulls out cleanly for about 18-20 minutes.
  9. 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.

More muffins to love are these Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins, Healthy Double Chocolate Muffins, these Lemon Raspberry Yogurt Muffins, these Cherry Vanilla Yogurt Muffins and these 3 Yummy Pumpkin Muffins – One Batch!  Muffins are the best!

Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist recipe!

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!

Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe! Fluffy & Moist!

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!

Perfect Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins! Fluffy & Moist!

Kim Lange
It’s such a simple recipe with just the right balance of banana and chocolate. Mix ’em up and bake for 20 minutes. They’re super fluffy, moist and Perfect-O!
4.42 from 2034 votes
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 18 minutes
Total Time 28 minutes
Course Breakfast, Brunch, Snack
Cuisine American
Servings 12 Servings
Calories 273 kcal

Ingredients
 
 

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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

Tip: 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. 
To freeze, 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. 
 

Nutrition

Calories: 273kcalCarbohydrates: 40gProtein: 3gFat: 11gSaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 28mgSodium: 144mgPotassium: 248mgFiber: 3gSugar: 22gVitamin A: 210IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 17mgIron: 2mg
Keyword banana, breakfast, brunch, chocolate chip, chocolate chip muffins, muffins, snack
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Hi! I'm Kim! As you may know, I'm cookie, brownie and chocolate obsessed! You'll find hundreds of decadent and healthy dessert recipes to choose from here! So, let's bake something easy and never forget the chocolate!

737 Comments

  3. Made these last week and they were a hit! My family loved them. Had to make another batch again tonight they went so fast! Only thing I noticed it only made 10 muffins for me?

  5. A fantastic recipe!
    Thank you so much. We made this in a loaf tin and baked it at 300 for an hour and ten minutes. Divine and definitely will be made over and over again! ♥️♥️♥️???

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  9. Oh my goodness! These are THE most delicious banana chocolate chip muffins I’ve ever made/eaten! Thanks for sharing this recipe with the world! ?

  12. I had been searching for a while, trying different muffin recipes until I stumbled across yours! I’ve made them half a dozen times now and I keep coming back to your recipe! Its a keeper!!!!! I love how much banana they use… and they are the perfect combination of moist, sweet, and chocolatey. Thanks for sharing!!! My kids devour them!

  13. Seriously yum. I changed the recipe: substituted wholemeal flour for regular flour, rapadura sugar for regular sugar and added 3/4 cup of chopped walnuts, as well as choc chips. They were so divine… did not last long in our household. Would recommend!

  15. These are so yummy. Make them, you won’t be disappointed. I used 3 bananas and they were still great. Do use the Ghirardelli chocolate chips because they taste awesome when baked and reheated. Much better than other grocery store brands. I sprinkled some on top of each muffin before baking too because who doesn’t need more chocolate in their life!

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  18. Hi Ashley! Thanks for the 5 star review and glad you love them! For freezing: Bake muffins as usual. Remove from muffin pan and cool. Once cool, transfer the muffins into freezer-grade plastic bags or wrap them individually in heavy-duty aluminum foil or freezer wrap. Seal, label and freeze. Freeze up to 2 to 3 months at 0ºF.

  19. I’ve been making these for years and LOVE them but am wondering if anyone has had luck freezing them? I’m about to have a baby and trying to stock up on freezer meals.

  21. These turned out perfectly! I used 3 bananas instead of 4, and they were fantastic!

  27. Wow! These were simple and delicious! I added walnuts and used brown and white sugar. Perfect!

  29. My daughter said, ” I thought the best banana muffins were at my coffee shop but they’re at my mama’s house!” That sums it up nicely! ?

  34. You just need to let them come to room temperature or put them in the microwave 10 -15 seconds. Anytime you put muffins or cakes in the fridge, they will firm up because of the cold temps. Try that and that should help Garen. xo

  35. Hi, I made this and it was tasty, moist and perfect, however, my mama put it on fridge and when she took it out, it was already hard. How can I make this soft even if refrigerated?

  36. Emely that sounds really good with Nutella Frosting. I’m going to have to try that for sure! Thank you so much for your kind words!! xo

  37. This is my favorite recipe, I use it as cupcakes with nutella frosting and is always a request! Thank You for this!!

  38. If the grandson gives the thumbs up, all is good in the world. 🙂 Thank you so much Cheryl for wanting to make them again and letting me know.

  39. Loved making these with my 3 1/2 yr old grandson. Fast, easy and only uses a few ingredients of which I already had on hand.

    They were everything you promised. My grandson gives them a two thumbs up, plus his seal of approval saying that they are DELICIOUS!

    Will certainly make these again.

  44. Regular sized muffins Johnny. You could do whatever you like if you wanted mini or jumbo, just adjust the time for baking. 🙂

  48. I’m so thrilled you all enjoyed them Julia!! You are so sweet! Thank you so much! Yes, always a good thing to make a double batch of these! 🙂

  49. I’ve made lots of recipes for banana chocolate chip muffins and I have to say this was the BEST recipe ever! My kids devoured a bunch of them – thank goodness I made a double batch!!

    Thanks for an amazing and easy to follow recipe!

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