Banana Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins

I decided to make muffins again the other day, and this time I added banana and improved the recipe, enough that I feel comfortable posting the recipe here this time around!  I also decided to do mini's instead.  I used a similar recipe to last time, adapted from the book 100 Best Cupcake Recipes (there’s a recipe for banana nut muffins in the “Cupcakes for Breakfast” section).

I liked these much butter than the chocolate peanut butter chip ones I made last time; the bananas made them moister and added a much-needed kick of flavor!  The crusty sugar top worked better this time too, I think because I used raw sugar instead of granulated for the 'crust.'

First I got my ingredients out.

Then mashed up 2 ripe bananas.

Then I combined the bananas with melted butter, buttermilk (I used nonfat milk and lemon juice again), eggs and vanilla.

In a separate bowl I whisked together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt; then I added the banana mixture and mixed until well-blended.

This time, I used peanut butter and chocolate chips – yum! 

I used these Reese’s peanut butter chips and two kinds of Ghirardelli chocolate – these oversized milk chocolate pieces along with semi-sweet chocolate chips.

I mixed them all together and popped them into the oven for ~10 min, then cooled them on wire racks. 

And enjoyed!

Banana Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Mini Muffins

Makes approx 48 mini muffins

2c flour

3/4c sugar

½ tsp Baking soda

2 tsp Baking powder

¼ tsp salt

2 tsp vanilla

2 eggs, beaten

1 stick melted butter

1/3c buttermilk

2 mashed up ripe bananas

1c peanut butter chips

1c chocolate chips

1 tsp raw sugar (to sprinkle on top)

·         Preheat oven to 375 and line muffin tray with liners. 

·         Mash up 2 ripe bananas in a small bowl.  Add melted butter, eggs, vanilla and buttermilk.  Mix together until blended.

·         In a separate, larger bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

·         Add the banana mixture to the flour mixture and beat until completely blended.

·         Add peanut butter and chocolate chips and stir until evenly distributed.

·         Pour into muffin cups, sprinkle some raw sugar on top and bake for 9-12 minutes.

·         Cool on wire racks, pour a glass of cold milk and enjoy!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Muffins

Hello hello!  I would first like to apologize for the lack of posts this past month; I have been traveling A LOT for work (and fun) and things have been crazy... plus, being new to this blog thing it's still taking me awhile to get into a regular posting schedule... anyway, on to the sugary stuff!

I recently purchased some chocolate chips and peanut butter chips at the grocery store and was excited to use them. I had just made oatmeal raisin cookies so I didn't want to make more cookies! I decided on muffins. I was feeling kind of lazy so instead of trying to find a recipe I just adapted a recipe I us to make banana muffins... and left out the banana, obviously. Although these would be pretty good with banana added in...

First I mixed together the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt; and added in the chocolate and peanut butter chips.

Then I beat together eggs, milk, vanilla and vegetable oil.

Then it was time to combine them!

Pretty easy , right? I poured the batter into some muffin liners then sprinkled some sugar on top of each one before popping them in the oven; I was hoping this would give them that sugary crust you see on muffins in Starbucks, Au Bon Pain, etc!

I baked the for 20 minutes then smelled something burning.... uh oh! Luckily, it was just some extra batter that had spilled onto the edges of the pan. Whew!

They were rather pointy... and slightly over-cooked... and most concerning, I couldn't see any chocolate chips! Where did they go??

But where is the chocolate?!

Oh, there they are! YUM!

Overall, they weren't bad; they could have been a little moister, and they just seemed to be missing something... next time I think I'd add some banana, or more of the peanut butter chips. I give myself a 5 out of 10!

PS - the sugary crust sort of worked... next time needs more sugar!