Description
These Streusel-Topped Banana Nut Muffins offer a unique blend of flavors with ripe bananas and crunchy walnuts, enhanced by a sweet streusel topping. They’re perfect for breakfast or a quick snack, easy to make, and truly delicious!
Ingredients
Scale
- one batch of easy streusel topping, made with oats, walnuts, and cinnamon
- 420g over ripe bananas (weight is flesh of bananas only, not including skin)
- 70g full fat greek yoghurt or sour cream, at room temperature
- 115g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 80g granulated sugar
- 120g brown sugar
- 2 large eggs (100g not including shell), at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
- 235g all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 150g chopped walnuts, toasted if you like (see notes)
Instructions
- Prepare the streusel topping following the easy streusel recipe, using oats, walnuts, and cinnamon. Keep it in the fridge until needed.
- Preheat your oven to the appropriate temperature for baking muffins.
- In a mixing bowl, mash the overripe bananas until smooth.
- Add the Greek yogurt (or sour cream), softened butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar to the mashed bananas. Mix until well combined.
- Incorporate the eggs and vanilla extract into the banana mixture, stirring until combined.
- In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon.
- Gradually combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients, mixing until just incorporated. Avoid overmixing.
- Fold in the chopped walnuts gently.
- Distribute the muffin batter evenly into the prepared muffin tins.
- Top each muffin with the prepared streusel topping.
- Bake in the oven for 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
- Allow muffins to cool before serving.
Notes
To enhance the flavor, toast the walnuts before adding them to the batter.
Experiment with the sweetness by adjusting the sugar based on banana ripeness.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 muffin
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 15g
- Sodium: 200mg
- Fat: 12g
- Saturated Fat: 7g
- Unsaturated Fat: 5g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 35g
- Fiber: 2g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 45mg