I love banana nut muffins. An indulgence of mine is to pick up a Banana Nut Muffin from Wawa every once in a while. The Wawa muffins are delicious, but have a bit of an artificial taste. Who knows what's in them! I have not been able to find a recipe though that I really liked until now. My inspiration came from a number of recipes including my mother-in-laws recipe for banana nut bread, which we like.
I love streusel toppings. I thought this would work really well with the walnuts in this recipe. The topping is a bit sweet, so you can easily eliminate this step. Make sure you use really ripe banana for the most intense flavor. Whenever we have banana's turn brown I know it's time to bake!
The muffins are really moist. I prefer to freeze muffins, so I'm not tempted to eat them all before they go stale. To protect the topping wrap each muffin individually in plastic wrap.
Recipe
Oat Bran Banana Nut Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cup whole wheat flour
- ½ cup oat bran
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 4 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 egg
- 1 egg white
- 4 small bananas
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons skim milk
- ¾ cup chopped walnuts
- For Topping
- ½ cup chopped walnuts
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons whole wheat flour
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons butter
Instructions
- Preheat over to 350 degrees.
- Cream together sugars and coconut oil.
- Add in egg, egg white, and banana.
- Mix until combined.
- Add in milk and vanilla.
- In a seperate bowl sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add to wet mixture in small batches.
- Mix until combined.
- Stir in walnuts.
- Spoon into prepared muffin pan. Use muffin cups or grease and flour pan.
- Fill muffin cups ⅔ full.
- For topping.
- Combine walnuts, flour, sugar, and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture crumbles.
- Add topping mixture to tops of muffin batter.
- Bake muffins for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
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