I always seem to find bananas ripening up faster than I can keep up with doing something with them! I found the perfect recipe for you to use your bananas! Make these delicious chocolate chip banana muffins today and enjoy them for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks! Sprinkle some crunchy sugar on top and you will be coming back for seconds, and thirds!

lots more baked muffins side shot — baked muffins ready to enjoy

Why will you love these muffins?

They’re:

vegan!
have heaps of flavor from the chocolate and bananas!
can be popped into your lunch bag for a snack!
uses up leftover bananas!
can use one bowl to whip them up!

Why do bananas work so well in baking?

You’ll notice I use a lot of bananas in my baking. This is because it can retain its moisture throughout the baking and help make a deliciously moist muffin afterwards that won’t stiffen up as the days go on.

As a vegan, it’s important to have substitutes that we can interchange for eggs in our baked goods. Here’s a website that lists some (ignore the last one).

Opening the muffin up to see the glorious inside

How ripe should your bananas be?

The blacker the bananas the more intense the flavor will be! I know it’s pretty gross to handle a banana that’s almost ready to pass its life to the compost, but trust me when I say that this goo is liquid GOLD! It just makes everything so much more tastier and lush.

What is in thesemuffins?

These muffins are made with simple pantry ingredients:

Bananas: obviously! Make sure they are super ripe as per above’s suggestion!
Coconut oil: gave the muffins a lovely crisp exterior while maintaining a soft interior!
Almond or any other plant based milk: kept the muffins really moist
Vanilla: a subtle fragrance to the batter
Chocolate chips and chunks: the perfect sweet compliment to the bananas
Toppings: completely optional but would make the muffins complete! See below for more details!

Ingredients for banana muffins — Ingredients for the muffins

The Toppings

I love adding something on top of my muffins before baking them. Sometimes it’s a homemade streusel, other times its granola, or even something as simple as turbinado sugar and chocolate chunks.

For this recipe, I chose to do the sugar and chocolate chunks. It added the perfect crunch on top and really made it feel bakery style. What is your favourite topping for muffins?

How to make the muffins!

Let’s do it! Let’s make these muffins!

Gather your ingredients and a bowl for your ingredients and another one to mash your bananas in. To be honest, I sometimes just throw the bananas in whole and give it a whir with the stand alone mixer or hand mixer.

*Tip try to make sure your milk is at room temperature as to not clump/stiffen up the coconut oil.

Adding wet ingredients together in a separate bowl — Add your wet ingredients together to combine

Added a bit of the dry ingredients to the bowl (sugar) — Added sugar to the bowl and mixed

All the wet ingredients have been added to the batter

Transferred everything to a bigger bowl for easier mixing (you don’t have to do this – I just did it to show mixing things more clearer)

All you have to do is mix in your wet ingredients. And then your dry ingredients. I would do the flour by thirds and be sure not to overmix it!

Flour is the final ingredient to be added. — Add a bit of flour at a time for easier mixing and not to overmix

Finally, add in your chocolate chips and fold in.

Folding chocolate chips and chopped chocolate

mixing batter in bowl — mixing batter in the bowl

Fill in your muffin cups right to the top because you want a bit of the batter to come out of the sides to achieve a larger enticing looking muffin! If you’re trying to conserve your carbon footprint you can just spray your muffin pan and omit the liners!

banana chocolate chip muffin batter ready to bake

Finally don’t forget the last step! Press some chocolate chunk pieces into the tops of each muffin and then sprinkle turbinado sugar on top to complete your muffin!

Lovely over head shot of the batter before going into the oven

Variations to the muffins

There are so many different ways to change up this muffin recipe to make it your own! Here are some ideas you can try:

Nuts: walnuts, pecans, almonds are all delicious choices!
Dried fruits: raisins, cranberries, apricots (chopped up!)
Try a different topping: streusel would be my go to! Maybe granola!
Add spices: cinnamon or nutmeg would be a lovely addition to your recipe!

I’m excited to hear which variations you guys do!

Close up of a delicious chocolate chip banana muffin

Aren't these beauties so lovely? — take a look at these beauties!

Tips and alternatives

Mini muffins: you can convert these to mini muffins for more bite sized flavors that you can take to a breakfast get together
loaf: I haven’t tried making this particular recipe into a loaf but you could try it!
adding/substituting fruits: you can switch up the chocolate chips for raisins, or something else that you prefer like nuts

How to store your muffins?

Banana chocolate chip muffins on the inside — inside look at that chocolate goodness

On the counter: You can keep these in an air tight container on the counter for up to three 3 days.

In the fridge: Because these muffins have bananas in them, I would prefer to keep them in the fridge for up to 5 days and warm them up slightly in the microwave or just leave them in a plate to warm up to room temperature and enjoy.

In the freezer: I’ve frozen muffins in the freezer for up to 5 months. I just defrost however many I need to room temperature and enjoy!

Thanks for reading so far! As always I really appreciate your comments and feedback! Let me know if you try this recipe by leaving a comment below or taking a photo and sharing it with me on social media! I really appreciate you!

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Bakery Style Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Have extra bananas around and craving something baked and sweet? Try these delicious banana chocolate chip muffins!

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 20

Servings:

Calories: 383kcal

Author: Sarah Kermalli

Equipment

1 mixing bowl you could also use a stand alone mixer here too

Ingredients

2 medium bananas ripe
1/2 cup coconut oil melted
1 1/4 cups almond milk or any other plant based milk
3/4 cup brown sugar coconut sugar could work too
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder
1 cup chocolate chips or chocolate chunk

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 375 F and prepare a muffin pan with cooking spray.
In a bowl, mash the bananas
Mix in the melted coconut oil and milk. Whisk in the brown sugar until everything is well combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together all the dry ingredients.
Fold in the dry ingredients into your wet ingredients. When it is almost combined, add in your chocolate chips.
Fill the muffin cups fully, top with more chocolate chips and turbinado sugar (optional) and bake for 19-20 minutes until browned and cooked through

Notes

Ensure your milk is at room temperature or it will harden the coconut oil a bit which will make it harder to mix evenly.

Nutrition

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