This week’s recipe adds something special to the basic banana muffin. The *special* aspect is chocolate chips! For the banana muffins that I made, I chose milk chocolate chips. Of course, it is all up to you for what type of chocolate you would like or you can completely eliminate the chocolate!
I actually decided to experiment a bit for this recipe and used butter instead of oil–which resulted in dry muffins (as you might see in the pictures). Rest assure, this recipe works beautifully with an oil of your choice. Make sure your bananas are ripe! Try out this recipe which combines the most delicious aspects of moist bananas + rich chocolate–
Ingredients: What will you need?
Tools: two mixing bowls, stand mixer/hand mixer/or whisk, spatula, measuring cups/spoons, muffin pan, ice cream scoop or spoon
What are the steps to make these muffins?
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. To prepare, take the chocolate chips and put three spoons of flour, from your measured flour for the recipe, and mix them together. This is great for preventing the chocolate chips from sinking to the bottom! Also take your bananas and mash them leaving some little chunks of banana- it will leave some bites of banana within the muffin.
2. Take a large bowl, place the oil, egg, sugar, mashed bananas, & vanilla! Mix these ingredients together.
3. Take another bowl, place the flour, baking powder, & salt! I actually placed a teaspoon of cinnamon- it doesn’t bring out a cinnamon flavor however it enhances the overall taste. Mix these dry ingredients together!
4. Place the mixed dry ingredients in the large bowl with the wet ingredients. If you are using a whisk, it is probably best to pour a little in at a time. Combine these ingredients!
5. With your combined mixture, pour your chocolate chips (of choice) in the large bowl and mix!
6. Now that the mixture is ready, oil a muffin pan. Use an ice cream scoop or spoon and scoop the dough on to the pan. 
7. Bake for `15-18 minutes. Time may vary depending on the type of pan you use. Insert a toothpick to see whether it is finished, if the toothpick comes out clean- it is done!
8. Serve warm or cool down! Enjoy!
