Banana & Chocolate Chip Oat Muffins
January 26 2021
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If you have over ripening bananas, then you must try this recipe! These muffins are so delicious and moist which is in my opinion very important in baked goods. I don’t like dry and crumbly muffins, so you will find out below how I make these moist muffins with a special key ingredient!
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I added pecans on top for aesthetic purposes, but it does add a nice crunch! Feel free to incorporate walnuts or pecans in the recipes, it would balance the sweet flavours of the chocolate chips.
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RECIPE
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Banana & Chocolate Chip Oat Muffins
You can use whole oats or oat flour in this recipe. I enjoy the texture of the oats as a whole, but feel free to modify the recipe and add nuts & seeds too!
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup ground flax seed
- 1 cup oats whole oats or ground
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Wet Ingredients
- 3 bananas, large mashed
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup brown sugar (or white)
- 1/3 cup butter melted
- 2/3 cup plain greek yogurt
- 2/3 cup chocolate chips
- 15 pecans for topping
Optional
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375. Add muffin cups to muffin tray and spray with light coating of oil (optional).
Dry Ingredients
- In a large bowl, sift flour and combine flax flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon.
Wet Ingredients
- In a separate large bowl, whisk the egg and vanilla extract. Mix in brown sugar, melted butter and greek yogurt. Add mashed bananas and mix well.
Mixing it all together
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix (do not over mix).
- Gently stir in chocolate chips and nuts (optional). Scoop equal amounts of batter into muffins cups and place a pecan on top of each of them. Depending on the size of your muffin tray, you could make 12-15 muffins.
- Bake for 22-24 minutes and poke with a tooth pick to make sure it's ready. If batter sticks to tooth pick, cook for another 2-3 min.
- Remove from stove and allow muffins to cool before serving.
Posted by Tamara Sarkisian