Moist, light delicious Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins are a real treat. Kids Love these.
These muffins are Low-Sodium and delicious! I made this recipe with Greek Yogurt, Coconut oil and my granddaughter Nora.
I’m visiting my Montana Family and awaiting the birth of grandchild number seven! It’s such a pleasure to spend time here visiting and playing with my four year old granddaughter Nora and 20 month old Dane. Nora and I decided some overripe bananas need using up.
Nothing better than muffins for breakfast and snacks, I say. If you love banana bread you will love these muffins! You will also enjoy Kayti’s blueberry banana bread, my healthy banana bread recipe and Caramel Pecan Banana Date Bread! So yum.
As Nora is showing you; we are using homemade greek yogurt in these muffins. Greek yogurt adds lightness and flavor with very few calories.
We also used coconut oil for a healthy digestible oil that tastes great in baked goods. I highly recommend it!
Cooking with children makes the whole process more exciting and fun. Their sense of enjoyment goes way up when they are allowed to help make recipes.
The pay off with these muffins is just plain delectable. Making these muffins with Nora was a special time for me. She was happy to be involved and was a great helper to her grandma.
Little Dane waited with a happy face while the muffins baked. We all enjoyed the smell of those baking muffins. What is it about banana breads. They smell heavenly. The whole house did.
We really love this recipe! The muffins held up for several days and stayed moist, light and fresh. I ate a whole lot of them.
These muffins are freeze-able. Place the completely cooled muffins in an airtight ziploc freezer bag with all the air sucked or squeezed out as much as possible. Freeze about a month.
Completely thaw on your counter and store in an airtight container to maintain freshness.
Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins Recipe Card:
Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins
Moist, light delicious Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins are a real treat; and fun to make with kids! These muffins are Low-Sodium and delicious! I made this recipe with Greek Yogurt and Coconut oil
Ingredients
- 2 Cups all purpose flour
- 1 Cup sugar
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 Cup melted coconut oil
- 1/3 Cup greek yogurt
- 3 ripe bananas
- 1 Cup chocolate chips
- (Optional ) 1 Cup finely chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Oil or use cupcake liners in one 12 hole and one 6 hole cupcake pan
- In a stand mixer, whisk together the banana, eggs, oil, vanilla and yogurt until smooth
- Add all of the dry ingredients (except chocolate and nuts) mix until just combined
- Add in the chopped nuts and chocolate chips and stir well
- Pour batter into the muffin cups 3/4 full, evenly throughout. Put chocolate chips on the top of the muffins if desired
- Bake 20 minutes or until a toothpick come out clean
- Let cool in muffin tin about 10 minutes and then remove to cooling rack
- If not using liners, cut around the muffins carefully with a sharp knife to release them from the tins. The chocolate tends to stick to the pans
Nutrition Information
Yield
18Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 266Total Fat 14gSaturated Fat 7gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 6gCholesterol 21mgSodium 108mgCarbohydrates 34gFiber 2gSugar 19gProtein 4g
mealplanmaven
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Congrats on the birth of your new grandchild! The entire family is just beautiful! I so enjoy baking with my granddaughters so I know very well what a special time you had...oh and your muffins look yummy!
homemadefoodjunkie
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Thank you Linda! It was a special time.
peter @feedyoursoultoo
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Classic combination and i like your helper.
homemadefoodjunkie
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Thank you for stopping by Peter!
Catherine
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Adorable post..and congratulations! These muffins look wonderful also. xo, Catherine
homemadefoodjunkie
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Thank you Catherine! They really are tasty!
Heidy L. McCallum
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
These look so good, mmm cupcakes!!! Congrats on the new baby mama <3
homemadefoodjunkie
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Thanks Heidy!
April J Harris (@apriljharris)
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Congratulations to you all on the gorgeous new arrival! What a lovely family you have, Diane! I so enjoyed the photographs in this post. Love the recipe too - I've been wanting to use coconut oil more in baking and I always love a muffin recipe with yogurt!
homemadefoodjunkie
Tuesday 14th of April 2015
Thank you April. I am so blessed in my family. I hope you do give coconut oil a try. We love it for baking!