Tuesday, May 27

Banana Dream Muffins - Recipe

STOP what you're doing and make these muffins. Seriously. I haven't tried a new recipe in a while, let alone one with such *delicious* results. I clipped this recipe from Sunset magazine many years ago and have never made it until now. Thanks to my youngest, who recently decided to forgo her morning nana, I had 2 ripe bananas ready for baking. This recipe is a welcome change from banana bread. Enjoy!

Brown Sugar-Banana Coffee Cakes
Makes: 6 large or 18 small individual coffee cakes

Preheat oven to 350 degrees


Streusel Mixture:

3/4 cup flour

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 t salt

1/4 cup butter
Muffins:
1 1/2 cups flour

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup mashed ripe banana (about 1.5 bananas)

1/4 cup butter

1/4 cup sour cream*

2 eggs

1 T vanilla

2 t baking powder

1/4 t salt


1) Streusel: In food processor or bowl, whirl or mix flour, brown sugar and salt. Cut butter into small pieces and add to bowl; pulse mixture or cut in butter with a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Set aside.
2) Muffins: In a bowl, with a mixer on high speed, beat butter and cup brown sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla until well blended. Beat in mashed bananas.

3) In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Stir into banana mixture. Gently fold in sour cream* until well blended.

4) Divide batter equally among 6 jumbo or 18 regular buttered and floured muffin cups (I found it fit in 12 regular cups). Fill each cup 1/2 way. Sprinkle streusel evenly over tops of cakes.

5) Bake until streusel is browned and a wooded skewer comes out with moist crumbs attached, 18-25 minutes. Cool 5 minutes in cups, then invert pan to remove. Serve warm or cool completely.

*I didn't have any sour cream so I used 0% Fage ~ yes, I'm sure it's what made these muffins so kick ass.

Let me know how they turn out!

7 comments:

Amanda @ www.kiddio.org said...

oh, wow, those are good! I love Sunset but finally gave up on the recipes since so many of them are really complicated and use so many ingredients, but this is a keeper. yum! I wanted to let you know that I'm linking to your recipe from my blog...hope you don't mind!

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Leah said...

sounds yummy. i'm all out of plain yogurt and no sour cream. do you think ricotta would substitute? maybe with a little extra lemon juice for tartness?

Anonymous said...

Katy does make the best coffee cake. Its been years since I had it but I still dream about it. I can only imagine these muffins to be just as good!

anke-art said...

Gosh, it's almost 2am here in Germany, and reading your post makes me hungry... I guess I'll definitely have to bake these muffins next week, they sound oh so yummy!

sarah hornacek said...

these muffins were sooo delicous! my daughter and i made them a few days ago for breakfast and my family couldn't stop eating them! thank you for sharing this super yummy muffin recipe...i'm always looking for new ones to try!

* elizabeth * said...

Oh. my. LORD. So delicious. and moist. and not like a terrible little stone like every other time I've made muffins from scratch ( I have issues.....) These are wonderful. Five stars!

Alex said...

I just tried these out this afternoon - a total success, although I might skip the topping next time. It was alittle too crumbly for me and I think they would have been fine without. Delish!

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