Hi everyone! Today on Sassy ft Sweet, I am going to show you how to make the most PERFECT banana choc chip muffins EVER. First of all, you should know that I will very rarely post a recipe that wasn’t the way I imagined it would be or disappointed me. If I do, that’ll be because I want you to learn from my mistakes without having to be mistaken yourselves! Or make you laugh with my disastrous attempts, which will be so embarrassing for me. Whatever.
You guys should know that my favorite YouTuber of all time is…drumroll please…Laura Vitale from LauraInTheKitchen.com. There must be someone reading this that knows why! I force my sister to watch her with me (she does not cook or bake or make any sort of food. And so she’s not interested in any food-related videos. When I watch Laura Vitale, my sister always asks if I can just jump straight to the end where Laura eats the food and says how amazing it is.)
Why do I tell you that? Well, that’s because this recipe is adapted from Laura with a few minor changes. She is right: these muffins are amazing to the AMAZING. Does that even make sense? I guess not. Well, anyways, please do try out this recipe, it’s amazing. Why do I use the word amazing all the time now?
The texture is amazing. Soft, moist (seriously hardcore moist) and beautifully balanced in sweetness, this muffin is just stuffed with delicious chocolate chips that will keep you from losing weight. But, hey. Life’s short. I used mini chocolate chips because I ordered a 1kg bag of chocolate chips online and it didn’t say how big the chips were so I thought they should be standard-sized ones. Then they arrived at my local 7-11 a day later, looking very miniature. I was kinda like, whoa. But they were much much much more cheaper than other Belgium chips, and they did hold their shape while baking so I’m happy. And that means you get more chocolate chips in every bite!
There is one thing I really like to do with muffin recipes to give them another level of texture. Contrast is good, right? Sweet-sour, moist-dry (okay, that one’s not so good) and in this case, soft-crunchy. As I said, these muffins are soft, so I gave them crunchy by sprinkling cinnamon sugar over the tops right before they slid into the oven. I do that with almost everything: muffins, cookies (tried that on shortbread, ah-mazing.), cupcakes, ice cream! It forms a crunchy top while baking because it doesn’t fully melt in the oven. I love that. When you bite into one, ‘crunch’ goes the sugar, then you taste whichever comes first, whether it be the natural banana flavor of the muffin or the bittersweet chocolate chips. It literally is heaven. Laura knew what she was doing when she created this recipe!
*Hint: Another muffin recipe coming soon! I love muffins…a few process photos below, didn’t get all of them, sorry!
Do not, and I mean DO NOT question the cinnamon in this recipe. It’s just a teeny tiny bit, doesn’t taste or or like cinnamon AT ALL, it’s just like using coffee powder in chocolate recipes, it enhances the chocolate flavor, making it even more chocolaty! And also, cinnamon complements banana perfectly. If you’re still unsure or is used to using coffee in your chocolate recipes, please feel free to use that instead.
Nuff’ said. Here’s the amazing recipe!
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Adapted from Laura Vitale
Makes 12
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Ingredients:
½ Cup of Vegetable Oil
2 Eggs
½ Cup of Sugar
3 Really ripe bananas
¼ tsp of Vanilla Extract
1 2/3 Cup of All Purpose Flour or Cake Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp of Baking Soda
¼ tsp of Salt
¼ tsp of Cinnamon
1 Cup of Chocolate Chips (175 grams)
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F°, which is 200 C°. Line a 12 piece muffin tin with muffin liners and set aside.
In a small bowl add the chocolate chips and 3 tbsp of flour and mix until all the chocolate chips are coated in the flour. Set aside.
Mash up the bananas, until it looks like the first photo. You want some chunks in there for flavor and texture!
Add the vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla and sugar into the bananas and mix until all combined.
Add the flour and baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon and whisk until all combined.
Fold in the chocolate chip and flour mixture, stopping right when you can’t see any flour anymore.
Using a large ice cream scoop divide the batter into your muffin pan and bake for about 18 minutes.
Check at the 16 minute mark to ensure no overbaking! I overbaked mine just a bit and they were still moist, but I can definitely say that they were overbaked.
Then eat a few of these (or a lot of these) and don’t feel too guilty, you’ve got banana as a sweetener here! At least that’s what I tell myself…!
Angelina xo
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