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Tomiko and I agreed to bake some treats for our friend’s Earth Day fundraising bake sale, so this was my contribution! I made these Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins, adapted from a Nigella Lawson recipe. The small amount of cocoa surprisingly makes a big impact in these moist muffins. If you make a batch for yourself, just put the baked and cooled muffins in a freezer bag and store in the freezer, that way you can pull one out to snack on whenever you have a hankering!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- 3 overripe bananas (they should be black)
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp instant coffee powder
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 cups g flour (I like to use whole wheat)
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F (200 C). Line a muffin tin with paper liners.
- In a medium bowl, mash the bananas with a fork. Beat in the vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, coffee powder, sugar, and salt.
- In another bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder and baking soda.
- Add the dry ingredients and chocolate chips to the wet batter. Stir gently just until combined. When you mix flour with a liquid, you turn the gliadin and glutenin proteins in the flour into gluten, which help give some baked goods structure (like bread). However, you don't want your muffins to be tough, so do not overstir. You can tell a muffin (or cake or cupcake) was overstirred if it has a pointy peak once baked, and if you cut into it, there will be long, vertical tunnels. Try to avoid forming these peaks and tunnels!
- Divide the muffin batter into the twelve paper liners.
- Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the centre of one muffin comes out clean. The muffins should rise quite a bit into a tall dome.
- Let cool, then serve!
This sounds like a wonderful treat! Thanks for sharing on the “What’s for Dinner” link up!
this is perfect! My daughter (2yrs) keeps asking for “brown cakes” for her birthday! Love it!
Banana bread is so my favorite – and CHOCOLATE banana bread? Just yes!
I make these too. Except I never thought of using coffee powder. I bet they add a nice flavor to them. Will have to get me some of that to try next time I bake these.
I always have overripe bananas. I can’t wait to make these! I know I’ll love them. I just hope I don’t over-mix them. I’ll sure try not to. Thanks for sharing! I’m glad I found you on the Pretty Pintastic Party!
I love chocolate banana muffins! Great recipe, looks yummy! 🙂 – Love, Anna
My goodness, what a yummy recipe this looks like. I like that it has banana incorporated into the chocolate. I am going to share this with my daughter who is an aspiring baker and maybe she will make it for me. If I beg her for mother’s day. Thank you for joining us at Sweet Inspiration.
These look so yummy!! Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday!! Hope to see you again tomorrow!! Pinned!!
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