While most people think that brown bananas look disgusting, I, on the other hand, rejoice in their presence. Seeing clearance bananas are the grocery store = jackpot. Since overripe bananas are the best to bake with, I wait until they go on closeout and then find an excuse to make something with them. A little brown peel won’t hurt anyone. Unless it’s on the floor waiting for an innocent passerby. Then we might have some issues.
My freshman year of college I worked at the campus bakery. Sounds fun, huh? Well, it turned out to be more work than I thought. Baking for a campus of 30,000 proved to be a bit different than the picture I had in my mind of a bakery. Some days, I was assigned to peel hundreds of bananas in order to make banana bars or banana bread. By the time I got done with that job, you would have thought I would never want to look those yellow gremlins again. Or that I had turned into King Kong.
But surprisingly, I didn’t. And I lived to see sophomore year. And better yet? I haven’t tired of making banana recipes. And the reason is? Mainly because of this ahh-mazing banana muffin recipe. I don’t know about you, but I have had some real duds-of-muffin-recipes in my years. Dry, flavorless, duds. Oh, but not this one. This one turns out perfectly every time. One of the best things about this recipe is the brown sugar & cinnamon crumble that goes on top. It adds an extra sweetness to them, which of course, I would never complain about.
Banana Crumb Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3 bananas mashed
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup butter melted
- Crumb Topping:
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon butter softened
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Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease 10 muffins cups, or line with muffin papers. Mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat together bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Add the banana mixture into the flour mixture and stir until just moistened. Spoon into muffin cups.
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In a separate bowl, combine brown sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Crumble softened butter into bowl and lightly mix until mixture is coarse, yet incorporated. Sprinkle mixture over top each muffin cup.
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Bake for 16-18 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean.
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Nutrition
These are seriously thee best banana muffins ever. I like to make a batch and then freeze them in individual packages. That way, I can set one out the night before and then grab one as I’m running out the door in the morning.
Christina Marie says
I’m so glad I found your blog! I too am a 20-something year old going on 80. It’s nice to know I’m not alone. :) These muffins look tasty. As far as other banana recipes go… I can’t get enough of eating them with chocolate fondue. mmm
Come over to Because of Madalene sometime and see how the other 80 year old lives. :)
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Christina
Bailey says
That looks so yummy! Love your blog!
-Bailey
prepheadquarters.blogspot.com
Morgan says
These look delicious and I love banana recipes! I am a new follower and so glad I found you from Gumdrops and Gloss!
Niki says
I need to try these! Every time I start a new diet I see something like this :) Definitely not complaining though – my diet can wait!
Allyson Butler says
Oh my goodness…looks incredible!
Robots in Trouble says
D: i really want some of these. i like anything banana in a muffin or cakes! is that weird? i’m def gonna try this recipe :]
Becky says
I basically LIVE on banana muffins at my college, so it’ll be great that I can finally make some on my own without buying their prepackaged versions! Thanks for sharing :)
–Becky
preppypremed.blogspot.com
Iz Originals says
these sound so good!! Can’t wait to add them to my (very small) muffin recipe collection!
Jessica says
this looks so good! I’m going to bake them as soon as we have some bananas :) i love baking but it always feels unhealthy with all the sugar and butter so these would be a great excuse to bake – at least its one of my 5 a day!
Zia Blue says
mmm, looks yummy :3 my fave banana recipe is this wonderful whole-wheat banana bread with raisins… so soft and delicious! (i have no idea what the actual recipe is though, it’s my mother’s :P)