Walnut Banana Muffins

Name: Walnut Banana Muffins
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 ¼ cup bananas (very ripe, mashed — about 3); ½ cup butter (melted); ⅔ cup brown sugar; 1 unit egg; 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 ¾ cup flour; 1 tsp baking soda; ½ tsp baking powder; ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp cinnamon (ground); ⅔ cup walnuts (chopped)

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 cup	bananas (very ripe, mashed — about 3)
½ cup	butter (melted)
⅔ cup	brown sugar
1 unit	egg
1 tsp	vanilla extract
1 ¾ cup	flour
1 tsp	baking soda
½ tsp	baking powder
½ tsp	salt
1 tsp	cinnamon (ground)
⅔ cup	walnuts (chopped)

Optional

Not counted above. The dish works without them.

2 tbsp

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

Steps

Mash3 min
bananas to a chunky purée
- bananas
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
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
Fold2 min
ten strokes, lumps welcome, add-ins on stroke eight
- walnuts
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.
Bake19 min
425°F for 5 minutes, then 350°F for ~14 — the dome trick
- oats
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
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