Best Oat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
These Oat Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins have enough ‘healthy’ and yummy ingredients to make everyone happy in the morning! And they are so easy to mix and bake, you'll want these every week for breakfast or a snack! They are super soft, tender, and moist with hints of banana, and chocolate in every bite.
Servings 12 Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cup Oat bran (if you don't have, you can pulse Oats in a food processor until finely ground)
- ¾ cup Whole Milk (1%, 2%, or skim can be used)
- ⅓ cup Salted Butter, melted and cooled
- 1 Egg, large
- ⅔ cup Sugar, granulated
- 2 Bananas, over-ripened over-ripened
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cup All Purpose Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ⅛ teaspoon Cinnamon or Pumpkin Pie Seasoning (see notes for homemade Pumpkin seasoning recipe)
- ½ cup Chocolate Chips, semi-sweet
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F and either line a muffin pan with cupcake liners or spray with baking spray.
- In a medium bowl, add the oat bran and Milk. Stir to combine and let the mixture soak for 10 minutes.
- In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Then add the butter, egg, sugar, and vanilla. Stir the mixture until well combined. Then add the soaked oat bran and mix to incorporate it.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Add to the wet ingredients and gently stir until combined, but do not overmix it.
- Add the chocolate chips and gently stir until combined and evenly distributed.
- Divide the batter equally among the 12 spaces in the muffin pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing them to a cooling rack.
