Blueberry, Banana-Walnut Crumb Muffins
I made a couple of changes to the Banana Crumb Muffins I wrote about a couple of months ago. As mentioned in the earlier post, the recipe is adapted from allrecipes.com and has become one of my very favorite recipes for banana muffins. The recipe may require some planning in having very ripe bananas on-hand. I’m always happy to “promote” bananas to the special rectangular bin I have in my refrigerator where bananas that are destined to be used in bread or muffins await their final destiny. The batter requires three ripe bananas.
These muffins are moist and banana-flavorful. I hope you’ll give them a try and enjoy them too! My teenie twists on these Blueberry, Banana-Walnut Crumb muffins:
- Added 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon to the batter.
- Added 1/4 cup chopped walnuts in the crumb topping and 1/4 – 1/2 cup chopped walnuts to the muffin batter.
- Placed 3-4 large blueberries on of each muffin before covering with the crumb topping.
- Make sure those bananas are “ripe”. I mean, the peel is evenly dark and it looks inedible!
Makes 10 Regular-Sized Muffins
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 “very ripe” bananas, mashed
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
1/4 to 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1/2 cup frozen blueberries or 40 frozen blueberries (4 berries for each muffin)
Crumb Topping
1/3 cup brown sugar, packed
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Spray muffin cups with non-stick spray.
In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In another bowl, beat together the bananas, sugar, egg and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture and walnuts into the flour mixture until incorporated. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups. Slightly push 3-4 blueberries into the muffin batter.
In a small bowl, mix together brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and walnuts. Cut in the butter until mixture is coarse like cornmeal. Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the muffins.
Bake in preheated oven for 18-20 minutes. Test for doneness by inserting a butter knife or wooden toothpick into the middle of one of the muffins.
Blueberry, Banana-Walnut Crumb Muffins – for breakfast or snack!
A result of baking goodness.
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Hi Naomi – Thanks for visiting and leaving a comment. By “points” what are you referring to?
Foodie Friends…thank you for all the deliciously wonderful comments. Please let me know if you give them a try and how you liked the combination of the blueberries with the bananas. I think it would be good without the crumb topping too. =)
Okay. Bananas make me happy and blueberries bring it home. I guess I am waiting for the punchline, ‘cusz this is too good to be true. GREG
Mmm I love muffins! These look so delicious!
wow, those muffins look delicious!
wow Your muffins make me salivate! I baked some streusel blueberry muffins days ago, but after seeing yours, I don’t think I am going to post them…LOL Yours look seriously good.
I will try your recipe soon!
Angie
Oh! I’m kicking myself in the butt for not heading here earlier. I made banana chocolate chunk muffins tonight, but was contemplating doing some sort of crumb topping and got lazy. Had I visited your blog I would have been influenced! It looks beautiful :)
I sure like the crumbed topping. YUM!
I love bananas in desserts. This is my favourite. With the crumb tops, I’ll love it even more :D
banana, blueberry and walnuts are my fav combo in muffins..will try these soon, love the pic of the tin..yummy
sweetlife
Thankfully…I always have really ripe mashed banana waiting in the freezer…standing by for the next treat.
I not only love these ingredients…they ‘re all ready to go.
Thanks for sharing this tweaked recipe. I’ll have to give it a try soon.
Flavourful wishes, Claudia
I remember those muffins but these are even better with the blueberries. I do like baked goods with the crumb topping. In fact I just bought a loaf of blueberry struesel bread. Couldn’t resist it. I have saved this for later.
I bet these must have smelt unbelievable when they were baking! The combination is fantastic and I wish I had one now to go with my morning coffee! I love the look of those blueberries peeking through at the top :)
I love cinnamon-banana muffin goodness! And the blueberries sound like the perfect addition!
Please send a dozen right away, I’m having muffin withdraw! My dad is moving in this week. No time to bake. These look even better than the last muffins!
I think I could eat a muffin like that everyday!!
Oh I love banana in anything baked, and paired with blueberries sounds delicious. I really need to work on making more muffins…. I think I am missing out. ;)
Yum! These look good. I love the crumb top and the addition of the blueberries too. Banana muffins are a favorite of mine. i will give these a try!
If I invite you to breakfast, will you make these? You should have brought some along to camp! :) Lots of my favorites are in these muffins, including the cinnamon!