These Banana Muffins are easy, delicious and quick to prepare. Plus, you probably have everything you need to make them in your kitchen right now. A favourite with kids and adults alike, these moist muffins are sure to please.
I have yet to meet someone who doesn’t love my Banana Muffins. I have many loyal followers who’ve been making these since day 1 – that’s nearly 14 years now!
Between the mixing and baking, the entire process only takes about 30 minutes.
Ingredients
- 3 or 4 large bananas, mashed (the more bananas the moister)
- 1/2 cup white sugar (original recipe calls for 1 cup, but I don’t like them too sweet)
- 1 egg, slightly beaten (or equal amount of egg replacer)
- 1/3 cup melted margarine or butter
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups flour
A Quick Note About Substitutions
These days it is common for folks to need to substitute certain ingredients due to dietary restrictions. If this is the case, this is a great recipe for accommodating substitutions. I’ve made them and forgotten the egg entirely, and they still turned out just fine. Another tip if you are short a banana or two, is to substitute applesauce for one banana. I find about 1/2 cup does the trick. In fact, you can omit the bananas all together to make applesauce muffins!
Instructions
- Mix the mashed banana, sugar, egg and margarine together. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, mix together baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour.
- Mix wet and dry ingredients all together!
- Pour into greased muffin tins.
- Bake in 350 °F (177 °C) oven for approximately 20 minutes.
Your Stand Mixer is Your Best Friend in Baking
I love my mixer, and it’s gotten a lot of use throughout the years. I like to do most of my baking in my mixer because it not only saves time, it makes clean-up that much easier. One bowl to wash up at the end? Yes please!
Traditionally in baking it is important to mix wet and dry ingredients separately, however, I have made this recipe both ways and I have not noticed any difference in their overall taste, so if you’re anything like me, you may wish to just toss it all together.
Baker’s Notes
These Banana Muffins are much more flavourful the next day, and they freeze very nicely too!
If you like walnuts, you can throw a handful of those in there as well for some added flavour and texture, or try adding chocolate chips, or better yet, BOTH. I also add in seasonal fruits like strawberries on occasion.
If you want to spice them up a little, you can add a tsp of cinnamon, and a little nutmeg as well. They smell fantastic baking when you add the spices. I always made mine plain when the kids were little, but they are teenagers now and spice is okay.
Thanks a mil for the awesome recipe! I have tried them with a slight modification, I added a teaspoon of grated orange rind and a cup of walnuts (as per my Banana Loaf recipe) – they turned out great. I sprinkled a little sugar on top. I look forward to trying more of your yummy recipes.
Awesome! I needed to find a recipe for banana mini muffins that my son’s preschool class could help cook- my 4 year old helped with every step- from the peeling, to the mashing, to the measuring and stirring, to the mini-tin filling- and to the eating of course! These were SO moist with 4 bananas! Made about 30 mini muffins- baked for 10-12 mins
Thank you sooo much for this fantastically simply recipe. I baked this for the first time a few weeks ago, just to shut my 2 little boys up! Since then, it has been tried (and tried again) by my neighbours and then by half our village and now, I’m baking 30 odd for our church fete tomorrow! I really don’t enjoy cooking and so, I find this really easy, yet, guaranteed to taste like heaven! Thanks.
Ummmmmm……how many does it make?
This recipe makes 12 large muffins 🙂
has anyone used this recipe for banana bread?if yes how long to bake?
Its 9.23am in New Zealand and I have some lovely muffins sitting on my kitchen bench – thanks for sharing!
Oh, I love your muffin recipe!!! It’s simple, and yet sooooo delicious !!!!!!I put icing sugar on the top of them and they were even more tasty and sweet !!!!! Thanks for the recipe !!!!!!!! 😀
These muffins are YUMMERSSSSSSSS!!! Thanks for sharing so much. I used the 1/2 cup sugar and added about 1/8 of a bag of mini choc chips and they are just sweet enough. Thanks again!
hey,
my mothe will be making these muffins tonight
she is realy happy cos it look rather tastey we just have to wait and thank you for being really nice to publish your recipie
is the batter supposed to be hard to mix?…i did everythign the way the recipe says but i found my batter really hard to mix..well they are in the oven now so i hope they turn out!..
No, it shouldn’t be hard to mix at all! How did they turn out??
Hey, i stumbled upon your website whilist looking for a banana muffin recepie. I am 14 and pretty much hopless at baking. I need a good banana recepie that I could use to make at school tomorrow – and yours looks like THE ONE! =)
But being the hopless my-muffins-never-turn-out-good person I am, I would like to just check about a few things…what flour is needed for this recepie? & how many do these make? If they make over 10 muffins, is there a way i could lessen it to maybe 8 muffins or something(because i can’t pack so many from school to home)-if yes how do i go about doing that?
thanks for this recepie though! it looks like it’ll just save me some panic about wondering what to cook at school!
I love this recipe! Its so easy to make!
Trying it again, this time I added a couple of baby plantains in with the 4 bananas. Baking in the oven right now…smelling soooo good!!!
I lovee these they are really yummy 😀
I just took them out of the oven and they smell great (i tried 1 is well 😉 )
Thank you for the recipie
These are awesome, these are my new favourite food I can’t wait to make my next batch.
Wow, this is first time ever my muffin came out right. great recipe, i’ll use this recipe again and will suggest to my friends too.. i added some walnuts too to mine. it is just great in the way it looks as well as the way it tastes…
Hi Cat,
I was really eager to try out your banana muffin receipe with all the positive feedbacks. The muffins turned out alright i must say. I lessen the sugar to 1/4 cup and 4 small bananas. The sweetness and the moisture is just nice for me but the muffins somehow smell a little flour. Any advice on what you think could have gone wrong?
Cheers
Cass
They smell like flour eh? Hmm…absolutely no idea. I have tried them every which way imaginable, and have never ever had an issue…
Do try them again Cass, perhaps using one of the variations, like applesauce in place of the bananas to make aple muffins, or pumpkin muffins but using canned pumpkin?
Best of luck, and to all of you who have taken the time to comment, thanks a *bunch* haha!! Bunch, get it?? 😀
The best muffins yet!!!!!!!!!!!
There are so many rave reviews I was starting to think they were fake. But, these are, in fact, the best muffins in the world! and I know how to make them worth 2 POINTS!!
Replace the fat with1/3 cup apple sauce and 3/4 cup white flour and 3/4 cup whole wheat flour and- Voila- 2 point muffins. Yum!
So Easy and “Deewishess”
Well I did mean to follow the recipe, but once again got carried away!
I halved the sugar again to 1/4 c and reduced the butter by 1 T, substituting 4 oz stale milk chocolate Hershey kissees (which I melted together with the butter). I didn’t taste much chocolate in the final product; however this is the best, moistest muffin I’ve made yet.
I used approx 4 frozen bananas in this, and I intend to try it with the pumpkin (that’s frozen too) as suggested, then some not-so-tasty applesauce I have languishing in the fridge. A great de-clutter recipe!
First batch is in oven, added cinnimon and ok weird almond granola…forgot the sugar …oops that’s what mis en place is for huh? The second batch has pumpkin and sweet potatoes with pecans. Added ginger, nutmeg and cinnimon. OH yeah and the sugar…It’s a great basic recipe that you can do anything with…good job Cat!!!
Thay’re in the oven at this very moment, will let you know how they turn out in 20 minutes 🙂 hopefully they’ll be loooovely.
Oh My, !!!!!!!! they are absolutely scrumptious, thanks for the recipe, I will defo be making them again. My hubby is going to love them when he gets in tonight. x
I used LIGHT butter instead, followed the rest of the recipe to a T, and they are great!!!!! So moist! Thanks!
hey! so i cooked these muffins for my home ec task and they came out perfect! I cooked about 12 of them and i only got to bring back like 3 home because they were such a hi! Great easy recepie!
O.M.G! I ABSOLUTLY love these muffins they are so great im definitly gonna make them for thaknsgiving. Im sure that my cousin will be super jealous because shes making a cake, that personally i dont think is that great, but lets see well just have to wait. And again thank you very much for putting this awesome recipe on thw internet. I LOVE THEM!!
Very easy, light and flavourful. Did I mention moist? I used 4 bananas and reduced sugar to about 3 tbsp dark brown sugar, and the melted butter to about 1/4 cup. Also replaced about 1/2 cup flour with 1/4 cup ground golden flax seed and a few tbsps of raw wheat germ. I threw in about a tbsp of apple butter to compensate for the reduced fat. The muffins are moist and fluffy and my roommates love them. This is a really great recipe to play around with.
I cannot bake to sae myself i have now made the banana muffins twice and both times were a success i even added choc chips. So glad i can finally cook somethinng with out stuffing them up LOL
thanks
Thankyou Cat for this delious banana muffin recipe..it isssssssss awesome!!!I also add walnuts and raisons and that is what the hubby likes the best!!
Marian
wow! im not a great baker but these muffins turned out so good! i used half wholemeal flour and haf plain flour, with a little extra baking powder and a pinch of mixed spice…theyre almost healthy!! thanks for the recipe 🙂 xx
hi, im a 10 year old girl, my 5th grade class is selling food for the whole 6 schools! i went online and this easy recipe was so perfect. everyone loved them. so did i. looks like your muffins are getting much more famous. i won the most yummiest food contest with your muffins! i will be on tv for 5 min. i will be sure to mention yor name cat.
hi its me again still lovin the muffins!
Way to go Sally! I started to really love to cook at around your age! Good for you, and I am so pleased that you won the contest!!!
OMG, this is sallys partner and we made more muffins than last time EVERYONE loved AND THX TO U AND UR AWESOME RECIPES!! and again THXXXXX!!!
how many muffins does this recipe make?
Makes 12 Large Muffins 🙂
hi its me again looks like i couldnt go on TV……:( anyway i was so sick, instead a old lady went on for me, im still famous, so r u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! carmen, my partner loves these 2!
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hi again, what can i substitute the butter with? will i can’t believe its not butter spread work?
i want to make it a little healthier.
yes nhi on the muffins i used i cant bielive its not butter and it tasted WONDERFUL!
that’s great to hear. thanks sally
Thanks for the recipe. My Husband loved it.
came out absolutely delicios !!!! everyone loves it ! i added half a cup of milk and two teaspoons of cinnamon, left the whole kitchen smelling amazing.
Mmmm good! I wanted to surprise my parents, so I made an omelette and muffins for them- plus, my brother will be selling some of them at his school. And, my sister will be arriving home from University (she’s a picky eater)… hopefully everyone will be very happy eating these!! Thanks.
yum yum!!!!!
hope u liked my tip nhi!!!!!!
hi im ten years old and i think these muffins taste……………..AWESOME!
HEY CAT!!
i have a partner named nikki and im the same girl!
we were bored!!!!!!!!
we decided to make apple thingies (that we invented!) that we call sizz-apples!!!!!!
its where u take apples strip and peeled and just roast them on the stove! NO OIL!!!!!!! only for 20 sec!
then dip them in any dressing, like….caramel………choco……yogurt..(yum yum) ANYBODY FOR MORE INFO PLZ E-MAIL gogreendudes@gmail.com thnx!!!!!!!!