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Banana Streusel Muffins Recipe |  |
The Recipe: A super-moist banana muffin recipe, sweetened with very ripe bananas and much-reduced sugar, topped with a 'streusel' mix of toasted nuts and cinnamon. A real treat for breakfast or an afternoon snack — maybe deserve a spot on a Mother's Day menu?
The Conversation: How to break our addiction to sugar, family by family, bite by bite.
COMPLIMENTS!
Who’s noticed how food companies put sugar in everything nowadays? No wonder nutrition experts say our country has developed a severe sugar addiction!
Before Christmas, I experimented with draconian cuts in the sugar portions in cakes and cookies, muffins and scones.
My friends call these cuts "Alanna-sizing" a recipe: a fifty- percent reduction in sugar is a reliable start though as you’ll see from BANANA STREUSEL MUFFINS, more can work as well.
Yes, there is a taste difference. But a positive one!
Without overwhelming sweetness, banana muffins taste like banana and pumpkin coffeecake tastes like, well, pumpkin.
So adjust your own favorite recipes and let me know how it goes over in your family. If yours is amazed as mine, we’ll break the addiction, family by family, town by town.
I promise, you won't miss all the sugar in this recipe for Banana Streusel Muffins. They are still surprisingly sweet, my goodness, how over-the-top sweet the original muffins must have been. Still, they are definitely "muffins" and not "cupcakes".
And talk about moist! Even (accidentally) left uncovered on the counter for 24 hours, they were still as moist and delicious as straight out of the oven.
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Time to table: 45 minutes
Makes 12 regular-size muffins
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MUFFINS
- 1/2 cup (1 stick, 114g) butter, warmed to room temperature
- 1/4 cup (50g) sugar (reduced from 3/4 cup)
- 1 large egg
- 1-1/2 cups (375g) mashed banana (from about 4 very ripe bananas or "black" bananas)
- 3 tablespoons low-fat buttermilk
- 1-1/2 cups flour, fluffed to aerate before measuring or 187g (I use 1/3 whole-wheat flour)
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
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STREUSEL
- 1/4 cup (50g) brown sugar (reduced from 2/3 cup)
- 1/2 cup (50g) toasted pecans or walnuts
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
Heat oven to 350F/175C.
MUFFINS Cream the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until well mixed. Add the egg and combine well. Add the mashed banana and buttermilk and combine well.
Separately, stir together the dry ingredients. Use a spatula or wooden spoon to stir flour mixture into the butter mixture, just until combined, without over-mixing (see TIPS).
Using two spoons, one to scoop and one to scrape, spoon batter evenly into 12 regular size lightly buttered muffin tins. Use the back of a spoon to slightly flatten the muffin tops.
STREUSEL Run the streusel ingredients through a mini food processor until nuts are fine. Use a spoon to spread evenly over muffins.
Bake for about 25 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes, remove from the muffin tin.
WEIGHT WATCHERS POINTS Old Points 4 & PointsPlus 5 This recipe has been 'Alanna-sized' with reductions in sugar. Over-mixing the batter for a quick bread like muffins will create small tunnels. If you've had trouble with holes in muffins or quick breads before, switch to a wooden spoon to incorporate the dry ingredients and stir until just combined. A little flour on the side of the bowl won't hurt. If you'd like to cut a few more calories, use only half or two-thirds of the streusel ingredients, there's plenty for as many as 18 muffins.
Moist & Banana Sweet (Not "Sugar" Sweet)
This is such a great little muffin recipe. I love how the banana flavor really comes through, also how the muffins stay so moist!
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I love banana muffins of all kind. These sound fabulous!
ReplyDeleteThanks for telling me about the 'black bananas'. I've made your banana muffins 3 times already and love them but I now know they will taste better if I allow my bananas to be black.
ReplyDeleteWhat would I do without your recipes and tips???
These look really moist and yummy! But I'm not a big fan of nuts...
ReplyDeleteWhat would the nutritional information be without the streusel topping?
This is my new favorite, not only for banana muffins, but I will be using this as a streusel topping on other recipes as well.
ReplyDeleteOhhhh finally I found such an interesting banana muffin recipe as yours!!! I created my own too, using the very ripe bananas and reducing sugar. But instead of butter milk I add milk and plain yogurt and I always end up with very very moist and delicious muffins. For topping I put dried fruits as cranberries, raisins, mango, or my favourite are pistachio and fresh plum/peach. Yummyyyyyy! I'll read your instruction well, thank you anyway for sharing it here! Have a nice day!
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I've made these twice now and made some healthy substitutions. They were a huge hit at home and at my office. I'm going to take my modified version to a professional baker friend of mine to have them made on a large scale for a company event; this is how delicious they are! The only two changes in procedure I made were aerating the flour after measuring and in the streusel - I pulsed the ingredients in the food processor so they would stretch further. I also made 24 muffins instead of 12, just filling the cups about 1/3 of the way. Thank you so much for you recipe SO INSPIRING, if you're interested in my substitutions, see below:
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•6 oz plain greek yogurt + 1 tbls EEVO
•4 oz unsweetened applesauce + 1 tbls splenda
•1 tbls flax seed + 3 tbls water
•1-1/2 cups mashed banana (from about 4 very ripe bananas or 'black' bananas)
•3 tbls sugar free vanilla greek yogurt
•1-1/2 cups Wheat flour, fluffed to aerate after measuring
•3/4 teaspoon baking soda
•3/4 teaspoon baking powder
•1/4 teaspoon sea salt
STREUSEL
•1/4 cup brown sugar
•1/2 cup chopped toasted walnuts
•1/4 cup candied hibiscus flowers
•1 tablespoon cinnamon
•1 pinch nutmeg
Elizabeth ~ So cool, your changes, I’m especially enchanted by the prospect of a little pink color from the candied hibiscus flowers. (And I’m struggling with the temptation to put some flowers in sugar water, right now, asap! Thanks so much for sharing your changes, truly! I am always happy when readers find my recipes so inspiring that they not only make them but make them their OWN.
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