Best Old Fashioned Banana Muffins Recipes

GRANDMOTHER'S MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups. Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl; set aside.
• Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add 1 egg and allow it to blend into the butter mixture; beat the vanilla and milk into the mixture with the second egg. Mix the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until just incorporated. Divide the dough into the prepared muffin cups.
• Bake in the preheated oven until golden and the tops spring back when lightly pressed, about 30 minutes.

BASIC BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients. In another bowl, mash the bananas. Add egg, oil and vanilla; mix well. Stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups half full. , Bake at 375° for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.

GOOD OL' BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in bananas. Combine flour and baking soda; add to creamed mixture just until moistened. Fold in pecans. , Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups three-fourths full. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

KING ARTHUR FLOUR'S BANANA CRUMB MUFFINS

Steps:

• For the topping, in a medium bowl, mix flour, sugar and cinnamon. Add butter or margarine and mix with a fork or pastry cutter until crumbly. Put aside while preparing muffin batter.
• For the muffins, in large bowl, combine dry ingredients. Set aside.
• In another bowl, combine mashed bananas, sugar, slightly beaten egg and melted butter or margarine. Mix well. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
• Fill greased muffin cups two-thirds full. (Do not use paper muffin cups!) Using hands, arrange coarse, pea-sized crumbs over muffin batter.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes or until muffins test done with a cake tester. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack.

OLD-FASHIONED BANANA CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a 9 by 2-inch round cake pan.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mix the bananas, granulated sugar, and brown sugar on low speed until combined. With the mixer still on low, add the oil, eggs, sour cream, vanilla, and orange zest. Mix until smooth.
• In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer on low, add the dry ingredients and mix just until combined. Stir in the chopped walnuts, if using. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes, turn out onto a cooling rack, and cool completely.
• Spread the frosting thickly on the top of the cake and decorate with walnut halves, if using.
• Mix the cream cheese, butter, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on low speed until just combined. Don't whip! Add the sugar and mix until smooth.

OLD FASHIONED BANANA MUFFINS

Steps:

• In small bowl prepare streusel topping by combining sugar and flour, cut in butter and set aside.
• In bowl, measure flour, baking powder and salt; whisk to mix and set aside.
• Separate eggs, yolks in small bowl, whites beaten to stiff peaks in a larger bowl; set aside.
• Cream together butter and sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy, add egg yolks and vanilla extract mixing to blend.
• Add baking soda to the buttermilk, add to batter mix.
• Stir in mashed bananas.
• Add dry ingredients stirring until mixed, gently fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.
• Fill greased or paper lined muffin cups two thirds full, topping with a sprinkling of the streusel topping mix.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven 20- 25 minutes or until golden brown; this varies from oven to oven.

BANANA OATMEAL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Line 12 muffin cups with papers liners.
• Beat sugar and butter with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth and creamy. Beat first egg into the butter until completely blended; beat in the vanilla extract with the remaining egg.
• Mix bananas, milk, and allspice together in a separate bowl; stir into the creamed butter mixture. Whisk flour, baking powder, and baking soda together in a separate bowl; slowly stir into banana-butter mixture until batter is just mixed. Fold oats and walnuts into batter. Scoop batter into the muffin cups using a large ice cream scoop.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25 to 35 minutes.

OLD FASHIONED FARINA MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 F.
• Line with paper baking cups or grease the bottom only on a 12 muffin pan.
• In large bowl, combine flour, farina, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
• Mix well.
• Add milk, oil, and egg.
• Stir until dry ingredients are moistened.
• Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full.
• Bake at 400 F for 15 to 20 minutes or until muffins are light golden brown.