These Double Chocolate Banana Muffins are lightened up and tremendous straightforward to make for a scrumptious snack or breakfast deal with! Bananas and chocolate are such a tasty taste mixture, and these muffins use each cocoa powder within the batter and mini chocolate chips on high for double the chocolate! I really made these muffins twice in per week as a result of my household appreciated them a lot. These Double Chocolate Banana Muffins use much less sugar than conventional muffin recipes, so that you need to ensure you use ripe bananas for added sweetness and taste. The sugar, chocolate chips, and ripe bananas make these muffins simply candy sufficient for a tasty deal with. Not solely are these muffins easy and scrumptious, however each is simply 129 energy or 4 WW Factors every (or 5 Factors if following the diabetic Weight Watchers plan). To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and observe it within the WW app or web site, click on right here!
My five-year-old daughter likes to assist in the kitchen and these Double Chocolate Banana Muffins are straightforward sufficient to make that she do fairly a little bit of it by herself! I nonetheless assist with measurements and the oven, after all. I virtually all the time have the substances to make these muffins readily available, so it’s a easy recipe to whip up for breakfast and snacks. They’re excellent to make as soon as and eat all week or you’ll be able to all the time freeze some for the longer term. I like these for my morning meal alongside an egg or some fruit.
Recipe Notes
- Banana: Ensure you use ripe bananas on this recipe! In case your banana peels nonetheless have inexperienced on them, they aren’t ripe sufficient. If they’re totally yellow, it is best to in all probability wait just a few days. You need your bananas to be as candy as potential, so that you need the peels to have some brown on them! For reference, I take advantage of 2 ½ – 3 bananas to make one cup of mashed banana.
- Chocolate Chips: I like utilizing the mini chocolate chips on high of those as a result of it provides you extra protection over the tops of the muffins, however in the event you solely have common sized chocolate chips readily available you’ll be able to undoubtedly use these as an alternative.
- Different Sweeteners: I haven’t personally tried making these utilizing a zero-calorie sweetener rather than sugar, however I really feel assured that it will work out simply high quality. Simply ensure that the sweetener you’re utilizing has a 1:1 substitution ratio with sugar in order that the sweetness degree isn’t off.
- Add-Ins: For deeper chocolate taste, you possibly can all the time add ½ teaspoon of immediate espresso powder to the muffin batter. It received’t make the muffins style like espresso, it’ll simply improve the chocolate taste! I preserve espresso powder in my baking cupboard so as to add to baked items for this function! I’ve the Delallo model On the spot Espresso Powder and it really works nice.
To Freeze:
I like how simply these Double Chocolate Banana Muffins come collectively, and so they’re nice to bake as soon as and eat all week! For those who don’t plan to eat all of them inside 4-5 days, you’ll be able to freeze some by simply wrapping each in plastic wrap as soon as they’re utterly cool and placing all of them collectively in a Ziploc freezer bag. You’ll be able to both defrost them to room temp or warmth them up within the microwave earlier than consuming. I like having a freezer stuffed with muffin choices at my disposal at breakfast time!
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These Double Chocolate Banana Muffins are a simple, tasty, lightened up breakfast or snack!
- 1 giant egg
- 1 cup mashed banana, (about 2 ½ – 3 bananas)
- ¼ cup granulated white sugar
- 2 tablespoons skim milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 tablespoons gentle butter, melted (I take advantage of Land O’Lakes gentle butter unfold with canola oil within the tub)
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
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Pre-heat the oven to 375 levels. Flippantly mist a 12-count standard-sized muffin tin with cooking spray and put aside.
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In a big mixing bowl, add the egg, mashed banana, sugar, milk, and vanilla extract and stir collectively till effectively mixed. Add the melted butter and stir collectively.
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In a separate mixing bowl, add the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt and whisk till mixed. Add the dry substances to the moist substances and stir collectively till mixed right into a batter. Spoon the batter evenly amongst the wells within the ready muffin tin. Sprinkle the mini chocolate chips throughout the tops of the muffins.
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Place the muffin tin into the heated oven and bake for 18-20 minutes.
WW Factors per muffin: 4* (Factors calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
*5 Factors every if following the diabetic WW plan
Diet Data per (1 muffin) serving:
129 energy, 23 g carbs, 8 g sugars, 3 g fats, 1 g saturated fats, 3 g protein, 1 g fiber, 184 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
3 per (1 muffin) serving (P+ calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
