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Delicious tender moist banana muffins topped with a delicious crumb topping!

If there was a “Banana Humane Society”… I’d be on their top 10 most wanted list for cruelty to this yellow rind fruit!

I buy them EVERY. TIME. I. SHOP!

I bring them home, put them in my assigned fruit bowl (every house has an “assigned” fruit bowl), and watch them change color! (It’s like my mood ring from Jr. High! “Oh look…they went from yellow to brown spots to black! Cool!”) And I do this over, and over, and over again? I don’t know why!

What’s my problem? It’s like I’m afraid the “Fruit Bowl” Police are going to show up, inspect my fruit bowl, and discover I don’t have banana’s! “Hey Sam…looky what we have here? A violation of code 286B! No bananas in the fruit bowl. Take her in and book her!” 

Yeah, this is what I want to go to jail for!

So what do I do to avoid imprisonment? Why I turn those healthy potassium laden fruits into delicious breads and cakes! I like to think of it as my “Get out of Jail Free” card! (“Here ya go Sam…have a muffin! Lol)

In my defense…these muffins are so outrageously delicious that it’s worth buying banana’s just to watch them get overly ripe, so you can make them!

How To Make Banana Crumb Muffins

You’ll start by preheating your oven to 350° and lightly greasing your muffin cups, or you can line them with muffin papers.

TIP: You have two choices of muffin size with this recipe. You can do a standard size muffin tin and make 10 muffins, OR you can do jumbo muffins (like the size of Costco muffins) and make 6.

In a large bowl, mix together 1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon of salt.

In a mixing bowl, add 2 bananas, 3/4 cup white sugar, 1 egg, 1/3 cup melted butter, and 1/2 cup of chunky applesauce.

TIP: Did you know a banana peels easier from the opposite end? It does. Try it!

Beat those ingredients together until creamy. Mix the flour mixture into the banana mixture.  (There’s that beautiful new mixer my friend gave me for Christmas! I’m in LOVE with her! The mixer! My friend too! Lol) 

Mix together just until moistened. Which is a nice way of saying “Don’t over mix this batter”.

Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Filling about 2/3 – 3/4 full. (Are you loving that exact measurement? I’m here all day folks!)

Crumb Topping for Banana Muffins

Now it’s time to make that “crumb” for the muffins tops!  The crumb topping is what makes these banana muffins stand apart from your regular ol’ banana muffins!

It’s so scrumptious! Beyond AMAZING! (Remember…my goal was to destroy any nutritious value of this poor mistreated fruit! SCORE ME!!!) 

In a small bowl, mix together 1/3 cup of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon, and 1 Tablespoon butter.

The trick with “crumb” topping is getting a good “crumb”. (Huh? What did she just say?) 

Let me explain…these muffins call for a really fine crumb. So I start with my pastry blender to cut the butter into the other ingredients.

Then I toss that pastry blender aside and dig in with my hands! I just keep rubbing and mixing until I get a fine crumb.

Sprinkle that crumb topping over the muffins.  It’s like Magic! The just went from ordinary muffins to “extraordinary” MUFFINS! 

Baking Muffins

Bake in preheated oven for 18–20 minutes for ordinary size muffins, and 20–25 minutes for the jumbo muffins, or until a toothpick inserted into center of a muffin comes out clean.

Look at that golden crumb topping! Isn’t it spectacular!

One bite will have you swooning! Seriously these are the BEST banana muffin’s I have ever had!

I wish I could take 100% of the credit for this recipe, but I can’t. This recipe is from Allrecipes.com. I tweaked it in a couple of major ways.

I reduced the amount of banana’s and added the applesauce. Having tried this recipe both ways, and you’ll just have trust me when I say…lol…my way is best!

They are super moist, full of banana flavor, and then there’s that luscious cinnamon brown sugar crumb. Each bite is a like a little party in your mouth!

My daughter and I were drooling over these. “Mars” comes home and starts eating one and pulls off the crumb topping! WHAT THE WHAT???? We stood there looking at him, with our mouths hanging open, like he was from…well….MARS!!!

WHO. DOES. THAT?  Now that’s worthy of a jail sentence! Just sayin’…. lol. (There may have been a fight… with a two-year-old…for that crumb muffin top! You didn’t honestly think that was going in the trash did ya?) 

My friends…you want these muffins in your life! Totally worth every banana violation that goes down at this Nest!

The free printable recipe is below. Thanks for stopping by and listening to my ramblings. I hope these delicious muffins make an appearance at your table soon. Very soon…come and join me…ya know you got a few “tan” banana’s sitting around! (wink-wink)

If you’ve enjoyed this recipe, you may also like these other Muffin Recipes

• Blueberry Lemon Soda Bread Muffins
• Breakfast Blueberry Muffins
• Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
• Pumpkin Streusel Muffins 
• Seven Week Bran Muffins
• Bakery-Style Almond Poppy Seed Muffins
• Blueberry Zuchinni Muffins from Allrecipes.com

Happy Nesting!

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