Double Chocolate Banana Muffins

My five-year-old daughter likes to assist in the kitchen and these Double Chocolate Banana Muffins are simple sufficient to make that she do fairly a little bit of it by herself! I nonetheless assist with measurements and the oven, in fact. I nearly at all times have the elements to make these muffins readily available, so it’s a easy recipe to whip up for breakfast and snacks. They’re excellent to make as soon as and eat all week or you may at all times freeze some for the longer term. I like these for my morning meal alongside an egg or some fruit.

Recipe Notes

• Banana: Be sure you use ripe bananas on this recipe! In case your banana peels nonetheless have inexperienced on them, they don’t seem to be ripe sufficient. If they’re totally yellow, you need to most likely wait a couple of days. You need your bananas to be as candy as doable, so that you need the peels to have some brown on them! For reference, I take advantage of 2 ½ – 3 bananas to make one cup of mashed banana.
• Chocolate Chips: I like utilizing the mini chocolate chips on high of those as a result of it provides you extra protection over the tops of the muffins, however when you solely have common sized chocolate chips readily available you may positively use these as a substitute.
• Different Sweeteners: I haven’t personally tried making these utilizing a zero-calorie sweetener instead of sugar, however I really feel assured that it might work out simply positive. Simply be certain that the sweetener you’re utilizing has a 1:1 substitution ratio with sugar in order that the sweetness degree isn’t off.
• Add-Ins: For deeper chocolate taste, you could possibly at all times add ½ teaspoon of on the spot espresso powder to the muffin batter. It gained’t make the muffins style like espresso, it’ll simply improve the chocolate taste! I maintain espresso powder in my baking cupboard so as to add to baked items for this function! I’ve the Delallo model Immediate Espresso Powder and it really works nice.

To Freeze:

I like how simply these Double Chocolate Banana Muffins come collectively, they usually’re nice to bake as soon as and eat all week! When you don’t plan to eat all of them inside 4-5 days, you may freeze some by simply wrapping each in plastic wrap as soon as they’re fully cool and placing all of them collectively in a Ziploc freezer bag. You’ll be able to both defrost them to room temp or warmth them up within the microwave earlier than consuming. I like having a freezer stuffed with muffin choices at my disposal at breakfast time!