Cinnamon Chocolate Banana Muffins

Thank you once again to both the Ohio Cook https://beatcancer2010.wordpress.com/ and Mimi from Good Eats By Mimi at https://goodeatsbymimi.blog/ for this delicious inspiration of the Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins. Please keep your good recipes coming. 🙂 The only things I did differently from your recipe was I added some banana extract and I made them as mini muffins. Other than that, I followed your lead. They were a big hit today.

I decided to make these as mini muffins 1) because I needed to get more to feed more people and 2) because I like to keep things on my coffee cart as bite-sized or small portions. These were perfect, especially since they were served alongside other goodies as well.

Cinnamon Chocolate Banana Muffins

If you choose to make these as full sized muffins, you will get about 1 dozen. I made them as mini muffins, and I got 5 dozen. i did need to make more streusel topping though.

Preheat the oven to 425* F or 220* C.

Line your muffin pans with paper muffin cups.

The Streusel

1 TBSP cinnamon

1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1 cup chocolate chips

Mix everything together then place a little bit of the mixture on the bottom of the paper muffin cups. Save the rest for later.

The Muffins

1 2/3 cup flour

1/2 tsp cinnamon

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup sugar

6TBSP softened butter

1/2 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp banana extract

1 1/2 cups or about 3-4 bananas, mashed

1/4 cup plain yogurt

Mix all the dry ingredients together and set aside.

Mix the butter and sugar together until creamy, then add the mashed bananas and the vanilla and banana extract and mix again . Add 1/2 the flour mixture and 1/2 of the yogurt and mix, then repeat until it is all mixed together.

Add the batter on top of the streusel mixture, then add the rest of the streusel mixture on top of the batter.

Bake for 5 minutes at 425* then reduce the heat to 375* F or 191*C and continue to bake for about 20 minutes, or until the muffins are set and are done on the inside.

Remove from the oven and cool before eating. Mine all disappeared very quickly, again. Yours will too. 🙂

Thank you ladies once again for this delicious inspiration and idea. Please keep them coming. 🙂

Have a great day and make everyday great. Stay safe and stay well. ‘Til next time.