Mini Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins {Entire Grain}

These mini banana chocolate chip muffins are gentle, fluffy, EASY to make and so excellent. They’re the right little snack or just-because deal with!

Prepare for the cutest and tastiest snack. Flippantly sweetened with honey, these entire grain mini banana chocolate chip muffins are speedy and easy to make – and oh, so scrumptious!

Entire Grain Muffin Batter

The batter for these mini muffins could be very simple. You might be already conversant in the entire stir-the-wet-ingredients-into-the-dry-ingredients schpeel.

What units them aside is that the dry elements embody a heaping dose of entire grains within the type of entire wheat flour. Regardless of the unhealthy rep that entire wheat flour will get, the muffins are nonetheless exceptionally gentle and fluffy.

The bottom line is to make use of a white/gentle number of entire wheat like onerous or gentle white wheat, kamut or einkhorn wheat flour or berries (if you’re grinding them into flour at residence).

For those who don’t have entire wheat flour readily available, all-purpose flour may be subbed in. My favourite variation of those muffins is utilizing half entire wheat flour and half all-purpose flour.

Naturally Sweetened

The muffins are sweetened in 3 ways:

1. Honey
2. Ripe, mashed bananas
3. Mini chocolate chips

The truth is, when you use very ripe, very noticed bananas, you may even be capable to in the reduction of on the honey because the bananas and chocolate chips lend the majority of the sweetness to the muffins.

You possibly can simply sub in granulated or brown sugar for the honey, if you’ll want to.

The Greatest Mini Muffin Pan

I’ve owned and operated a variety of mini muffin pans in my lifespan.

And I can say with all of the fervor of my soul that utilizing a light-colored aluminum muffin pan is vital (vs a dark-colored or dark-coated pan). The mini muffins will bake extra evenly with out burning on the skin edges.

My favourite mini muffin pans are the USA brand pans aff. hyperlink. I ditched my different mini muffin pans in favor of those a few years in the past and haven’t regretted it for one on the spot.

The muffins all the time come out evenly baked, completely domed and the pans are simple to wipe/clear up.

The Greatest Little Muffins

These mini banana chocolate chip muffins are the right snack for my always-hungry brood, particularly throughout the summer time months when they’re consuming every thing in sight (after which some).

Fact be instructed, it’s my 14-year outdated son who makes these mini muffins 99.9% of the time. They’ve change into his specialty, and he’s been identified to put in writing his title in sharpie on baggage of those baked muffins so there are a number of left for him after his ravenous siblings are accomplished.

It was his concept and *fixed* prodding for me to lastly publish the recipe right here! I believe he’s glad he’ll be capable to search for the recipe on the iPad within the kitchen now slightly than looking by way of the messy piles of my recipe notes.

They are surely one of the best miniature muffins ever! They keep moist and fluffy for days and freeze nice, too. We hope you like them!

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Mini Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins Entire Grain

Yield: 48 mini muffins

Prep Time: 20 minutes minutes

Cook dinner Time: 15 minutes minutes

Complete Time: 35 minutes minutes

• 2 ¼ cups (320 g) white entire wheat flour or all-purpose flour (or a mixture)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (242 g) milk or buttermilk
• ½ cup honey (166 g) or granulated sugar (106 g)
• 1 giant egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 to 1 ¼ cups (236 to 295 g) mashed ripe bananas (about 3 medium bananas)
• 6 tablespoons (85 g) butter, melted
• ¾ cup (128 g) mini chocolate chips

• Preheat the oven to 375 levels F. Flippantly grease two 24-cup mini muffin pans (when you solely have one tin, cook dinner in two batches).

• In a medium bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

• In a small bowl or liquid measuring cup, whisk collectively the milk or buttermilk, honey or sugar, egg and vanilla till well-combined.

• To the dry elements, add the milk combination, mashed bananas, and butter.

• Combine with a silicone spatula till a number of dry streaks stay.

• Add the chocolate chips and blend till simply mixed. Do not over combine.

• Fill the mini muffin pan(s) 3/4 full with batter. Bake for 10-Quarter-hour till the tops spring again calmly to the contact. Let cool for 2-3 minutes earlier than eradicating to a wire rack to chill fully.

Flour: if utilizing entire wheat flour, a white entire wheat flour is really useful so the muffins are gentle and fluffy and never heavy and dense. My desire is to make use of onerous or gentle white, kamut or einkhorn wheat flour. If not utilizing a scale, measure the flour with a light-weight hand so it isn’t packed into the cup. 
 

Serving: 1 mini muffin, Energy: 67kcal, Carbohydrates: 10g, Protein: 1g, Fats: 2g, Saturated Fats: 1g, Ldl cholesterol: 9mg, Sodium: 61mg, Fiber: 0.3g, Sugar: 5g

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