Mini Banana Muffins

These Mini Banana Muffins are incredibly soft, light and tender, with sweet banana flavor and made without eggs. They just take 30 minutes from start to finish and is the perfect way to use that one over ripe banana sitting on your counter.

Course Muffins / Quick Breads

Cuisine American

Keyword banana bread mini muffins, banana nut mini muffins, easy mini banana muffins, mini banana muffins, one banana muffins

Prep Time 8

Cook Time 25

Total Time 33

Servings Mini Muffins

Calories 74kcal

Author Maria Doss

Ingredients

Dry ingredients

½ cup all purpose flour
¼ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon baking powder
⅛ teaspoon salt

Wet ingredients

⅓ cup mashed ripe banana about 1 medium
¼ cup packed golden brown sugar
¼ cup plain yogurt
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
½ teaspoon vanilla extract

Additional ingredients

3 tablespoons finely chopped walnuts divided

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Instructions

Preheat oven to 330°F and line a 12-cup mini muffin pan with mini paper liners.
Whisk all dry ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
Into another larger bowl, add all wet ingredients and whisk until very smooth. Add the dry ingredients and whisk until just combined.
Tip: Over mixing your batter can lead to muffins that are too tough and dense. To avoid this, I strongly recommend stirring your muffin batter only until you no longer any streaks of white flour.
Using a rubber spatula, stir in 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts. Divide batter evenly into the prepared muffin pan and sprinkle remaining chopped walnuts on top of the batter.
Bake for 24 to 25 minutes or until the muffins are brown (darker than golden brown) on top.
Pro tip: These mini banana muffins are baked at a fairly lower temperature of 330 degrees. This helps in maintaining a moist and tender texture, since there's lesser evaporation of moisture.
Place pan on a wire rack to cool completely.

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Notes

If you'd like to frozen bananas, thaw them at room temperature, drain off any excess liquid, mash, then use as instructed in the recipe below.

Heavily speckled bananas will give intense fruity flavor.

Chopping walnuts into tiny pieces will make it distribute evenly.

Bake until the tops are deep golden in color.

Mini muffin pan can be easily found on Amazon or all major US supermarkets. They are available in two sizes - 12 cavity or 24 cavity.

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