Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins are moist, soft, and ready in 30 minutes. Packed with protein and potassium, yet without refined sugars, they deliver enough sweetness that kids still consider them a treat!

Don’t let the rest of your ripe bananas go to waste! Keep them for banana protein muffins and almond flour banana muffins.

These healthy banana chocolate chip muffins contain so many nutritional benefits while giving us a soft and moist bakery style muffin.

We’re using ripe bananas which deliver sweetness and moisture, Greek yogurt for protein, a hint of cinnamon for added flavor, and loads of chocolate chips! Banana chocolate chip muffins are a delicious cross of my aaplesauce banana muffins and healthy chocolate chip muffins.

Take these healthy muffins on the go as a healthy snack or pack one in your lunchbox. Enjoy it on its own or slathered in melted butter!

Ingredients for Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

To make healthy banana chocolate chip muffins recipe, you will need a few simple ingredients.

• Bananas: You’ll need about 3 large bananas. The riper the bananas the better. Brown spots, brown patches, bruised, and scary-looking bananas are what we’re looking for! Frozen bananas are OK too.
• Egg: Just one is all you need for binding the ingredients together.
• Greek yogurt: I prefer to use 2% fat yogurt for moisture and richness. You can use 0% fat yogurt but muffins will be less moist.
• Maple syrup: It has a delicious flavor that pairs well with cinnamon, vanilla, and chocolate chips. Honey or any other liquid sweetener works.
• Oil: Olive oil, avocado oil, or melted coconut oil is neutral in flavor and contains healthy fats.
• Whole wheat flour: Or spelt flour. You could also try white whole wheat flour or pastry wheat flour.
• Baking staples: Cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt and vanilla extract.
• Chocolate chips: I use dark chocolate chips. You can swap them for any of your favorite chocolate chips.

How to Make Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

These healthy banana chocolate chip muffins come together in one bowl.

• Mash bananas and add liquid ingredients: In a large bowl, mash ripe bananas using a fork. Then, whisk together the egg, yogurt, maple syrup, oil, vanilla, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

• Make banana muffins batter: Add flour and gently stir the muffin batter. Make sure everything is incorporated without overmixing.
• Let the batter rest: Just for a few minutes, so the flour has time to absorb into the rest of the ingredients and the leavening agents have time to start working towards light and fluffy muffins!

• Fold in the chocolate chips and divide the batter: Add chocolate chips and give batter a few stirs. Use an ice cream scoop to scoop the batter and fill each opening of the prepared muffin tin to about 3/4 full. Place a few extra chocolate chips on top of the muffins.
• Bake muffins: Bake banana chocolate chip muffins on the middle rack for 20 minutes. Muffins are ready when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Let the muffins cool for 5 minutes.

Tips for Best Results

Here are my top tips for best healthy banana chocolate chip muffins in the world!

• Follow the recipe: It’s important with muffin recipes, to keep the ratio of liquid ingredients to dry ingredients as listed in the recipe. If you plan to swap sweeteners, make sure they’re liquid and not dry like granulated sugar.
• Do not overmix the batter: This will activate the gluten and release too much of the trapped air leaving muffins heavy, dense, and rubbery.
• Do not over bake: Remove banana muffins from the oven as soon as toothpick comes out clean to avoid dry muffins, even if they look not too browned. Muffins keep cooking with residual heat.
• To ripen bananas fast: Place a few ripened apples or bananas with the unripened ones in a tightly sealed brown paper bag. Leave on the counter for a couple of days and allow the ethylene gases to speed up the process. If you’re in more of a hurry, bake the entire banana (peel and all) in an oven at 350 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Variations

Here are a few fun additions and swaps for your healthy banana chocolate chip muffins depending on your taste and what you have on hand.

• Applesauce: You can replace the yogurt with sweetened applesauce or unsweetened applesauce, if desired.
• Egg-free: Omit the egg and use a flax egg or chia egg in its place. Banana chocolate chip muffins will just rise less.
• Add-ins: Use fresh blueberries or frozen blueberries instead of chocolate chips. Add some chopped walnuts, pecans or almonds for crunch. Add up to 1/3 cup of coconut flakes.
• Make mini muffins: Use a mini muffin tray to make double the amount of smaller muffins. Bake for 15 minutes and test with a toothpick. Leave them in a little longer, if they need it.

How to Store Healthy Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

To store: Keep healthy banana chocolate chip muffins moist covered in on your countertop for 2 days. You can then transfer them to the refrigerator for a few extra days.

To freeze: Bake, cool completely and transfer muffins to a freezer-friendly bag. Freeze for up to 3 months. To thaw, let muffins sit at room temperature on the counter for a few hours.

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