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Walnut Banana Muffins

Breads & Baking · American

A variant of Banana Muffins — An ingredient branch from the authored reference, with its selected additions included in the quantities and method.

11 ingredients · 40 minutes · 12 servings

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Contains gluten, dairy, egg, tree nut

Restrictions

Containsgluten · dairy · egg · tree nutIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Diets
VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol · check

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:
1 ¼ cupbananas (very ripe, mashed — about 3)
½ cupbutter (melted)
cupbrown sugar
1 unitegg
1 tspvanilla extract
1 ¾ cupflour
1 tspbaking soda
½ tspbaking powder
½ tspsalt
1 tspcinnamon (ground)
cupwalnuts (chopped)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

2 tbspoats (a pinch on each top, for the bakery look)

Steps

  1. mash3 min
    bananas to a chunky purée
    spotted-black bananas with a fork, some small lumps surviving — the lumps bake into pockets of concentrated banana, and the ripeness rule is the same economics as the bread: the freezer is where this recipe's main ingredient comes from
  2. whisk3 min
    wet: banana + melted butter + brown sugar + egg + vanilla
    in one bowl; dry (flour + soda + powder + salt + cinnamon) in another — the muffin method's whole premise is that the two sides meet exactly once, briefly
  3. fold2 min
    ten strokes, lumps welcome, add-ins on stroke eight
    Fold the dry mixture into the wet mixture, adding the listed chopped walnuts with the final strokes. Stop while the batter remains lumpy and just combined; this branch uses walnuts as its measured add-in.
  4. bake19 min
    425°F for 5 minutes, then 350°F for ~14 — the dome trick
    cups filled generously to the brim (a modest fill makes a modest muffin), oats pinched on top, into the hot oven — the initial blast springs the crown upward before the structure sets, then the drop finishes the interior; tester clean at the dome's center
  5. rest8 min
    5 in the tin, then racked
    briefly — muffins are the rare bake meant warm, and their whole argument over banana bread is timeline: forty minutes from black bananas to breakfast instead of ninety