ELVIS MINI MUFFINS

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How to make Elvis Mini Muffins

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 26

Ingredients

Banana muffins: adapted from simplyrecipes.com
3~4 completely (almost overly) ripen bananas *
1/3 cup (76 g) of unsalted butter, melted
1/2 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of brown sugar
1 large egg **
1 tbsp of dark rum
1 tsp of vanilla extract
1 tsp of baking soda
1/8 tsp of salt
1 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour
Peanut butter and bacon streusel: (you may not need all of it if you like a little less streusel)
4 strips of bacon, rendered and broken into pieces
1/2 cup of flour
1 tbsp of sugar
3 tbsp of brown sugar
1/4 tsp of ground cinnamon
Pinch of grated nutmeg
40 g (approx 4 tbsp) of peanut butter, melted
1 tbsp of bacon fat (or melted unsalted butter)
Topping:
2 tbsp of peanut butter
1 tbsp of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tbsp of milk
1 tsp of unsalted butter
4 strips of bacon, rendered and broken into large chunks

Steps:

Preheat the oven on 350ºF/175ºC.
Make the muffin batter: Melt the unsalted butter in a large bowl in the microwave. Peel the bananas and mash them into the butter using a whisk. Add the sugar, brown sugar, egg, dark rum and vanilla extract. Whisk until smoothly combined and slightly foamy. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and whisk, then add the flour and fold it into the wet ingredient until JUST combined. Set aside.
Make the streusel: In a food processor, combine all the ingredients under "peanut butter and bacon streusel". Pulse until the mixture comes together as loose crumbs.
Bake the muffins: Equally divide the muffin batter into 12 medium-size muffin cups set inside muffin tins. It should fill each cups up to half-way full. Then evenly distribute the streusel over the batter and press it lightly into the batter with the back of a spoon (I think this makes them stick better to the muffins). Bake in the oven for 25~30 min, or until a wooden skewer comes out clean of the center.
Meanwhile make the topping: Combine peanut butter, semi-sweet chocolate chips, milk and unsalted butter in a bowl. Microwave on high for 20 seconds and stir the mixture until melted and evenly combined. You can JUST USE peanut butter for the topping instead of a peanut butter AND chocolate ganache. Its purpose is really just to hold the bacon chunks on top of the muffin.
Assemble: Let the muffins cool on a cooling rack for 20 min. Spoon a small amount of the peanut butter/chocolate ganache (or just peanut butter) on each muffins. Then insert 2~3 pieces of bacon chunks on top of the ganache.