Lighter Banana Muffins Recipes

LIGHT BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• To prepare cupcakes, combine 1/4 cup granulated sugar and banana; set aside.
• Beat 1/2 cup granulated sugar, butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla at medium speed of a mixer until well-blended (about 3 minutes).
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add banana mixture to sugar mixture, beating well.
• Lightly spoon flour into a dry measuring cup; level with a knife.
• Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and nutmeg in a bowl, stirring well with a whisk.
• Add flour mixture to sugar mixture alternately with yogurt, beginning and ending with flour mixture; mix after each addition.
• Spoon batter into 12 muffin cups lined with paper liners.
• Bake at 350° for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.

LIGHTER BANANA CRUMB MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups or line with paper liners.
• Whisk 1 1/2 cup flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Beat bananas, 3/4 cup brown sugar, agave syrup, egg, and 1/3 cup applesauce in a separate bowl until thoroughly combined. Stir banana mixture into the dry ingredients to make a smooth batter. Fill muffin cups about 2/3 full of batter.
• Mix 1/3 cup brown sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, and cinnamon in a bowl; stir 1 1/2 teaspoons of applesauce into the mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle topping over muffins.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden brown and a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes.

LIGHT CHOCOLATE BANANA MUFFINS RECIPE

Steps:

• Position an oven rack in the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 350F degrees. Place paper liners in a 12 cup standard muffin pan and set aside.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, and salt until well blended.
• In another bowl, whisk together the mashed bananas, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, and oil until well blended.
• Add the banana mixture to the flour mixture and stir together just until blended. Gently stir in the chocolate chips.
• Divide the batter evenly between the lined muffin cups.
• Bake in the center of the oven for 20 to 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• Take the pan from the oven and set the pan on a wire rack. Let the muffins cool in the pan for 2 or 3 minutes and then take them out and place them directly on the wire rack to cool completely.

ULTRA MOIST BLUEBERRY BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees (F). Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper liners and it set aside.
• In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon, and salt; set aside.
• In a separate large bowl, whisk together the melted butter, both sugars, eggs, vanilla extract, sour cream, and mashed bananas, mixing until ingredients are fully incorporated.
• Add the dry mixture of ingredients to the wet mixture of ingredients and, using a rubber spatula, mix until just combined. Do not over mix or your muffins will be dry!
• Fold in the blueberries and walnuts, mixing just until combined.
• Divide the batter evenly among prepared muffin tins, filling each tin all the way to the top.
• Press a few extra blueberries into the top of each muffin and then add sprinkle with sparkling sugar, if using.
• Bake, in the center of the middle rack, for 24 to 26 minutes, or until the tops are puffed up and richly golden brown, and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean, or with a just a few moist crumbs attached.
• Cool muffins at least 15 minutes in the pan before serving warm or transferring to a cooling rack.

LIGHTER BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease or line 10 muffin cups.
• In a medium bowl, combine eggs and bananas. In a separate bowl, mix together flour, salt, sugar and baking soda. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture. Fold in walnuts if desired. Pour batter into prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.