Recipe: Banana Muffin

Ingredients

3 ripe bananas

¼ cup canola oil (may substitute vegetable oil) (60ml)

¼ cup unsalted butter melted and cooled at least 5 minutes (60g)

½ cup sugar (100g)

½ cup light brown sugar (100g)

2 large eggs room temperature preferred

1 Tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups all-purpose flour (250g)

1 ½ teaspoons baking powder

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

¼ cup buttermilk (60ml) room temperature preferred

Streusel (optional)

1/2 cup all-purpose flour (65g)

1/2 cup brown sugar (100g)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/4 cup unsalted butter, cold (60g)

Methods

1.     Preheat oven to 425F (220C) and line a muffin tin with paper liners.

2.     Mash 3 ripe bananas in a large bowl.

3.     Add ¼ cup canola oil and ¼ cup melted unsalted butter and stir well. 

4.     Add ½ cup sugar.

5.     Add 2 large eggs, 1 tbsp vanilla extract and ¼ cup buttermilk.

6.     In separate bowl, whisk your dry ingredients: 2 cups flour, 1 ½ tsp baking powder, ½ tsp baking soda, and ½ tsp salt.

7.     Add dry dry ingredients to your wet batter and gently fold in until ingredients are just combined (don't over-mix the batter!).

8.     Portion batter into prepared muffin tin, filling each liner 3/4 of the way full.  Set aside and prepare your Streusel topping.

9.     Bake muffins on 425F (218C) for 8 minutes.

10.  Then reduce oven temperature to 350F (175C) for another 8 minutes.

Streusel Topping (optional)

1.     Combine flour, brown sugar, and salt in a medium-sized bowl and use a fork to stir the ingredients together.

2.     Using a pastry cutter, cut in your cold butter until the butter is well-worked in and your mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

3.     Sprinkle streusel topping evenly over each muffin.