Easy to make, the best Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins are soft, fluffy and moist!
Filled with chocolate chips and fresh bananas this warm treat can be enjoyed by your family on any given day. Not only is this quick and easy to make but only requires a few pantry staples.
Why We Love This Recipe
- Banana chocolate chips muffins are a super easy recipe that is made with simple ingredients.
- They are fluffy and moist with a sweet banana flavor and a few jolts of delicious semi-sweet AND milk chocolate chips!
- They are a good way to use up ripe bananas and they freeze well for later!
- They are great not just for breakfast but are a great after school snack. They even make a nice little dessert when warmed up and served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. The sky is the limit for these tasty muffins.
Ingredients & Variations
Similar to the ingredients found in a classic banana bread with the addition of chocolate chips!
FLOUR
For this recipe we use all purpose flour. You can also substitute up to 1/3 of the flour with quick oats with great results!
CHOCOLATE CHIPS
Adding chocolate chips makes for the perfect sweet treat. Mini chips, white chocolate chips or even milk chocolate chips will work in this recipe too!
BANANAS
This recipe is a perfect way to use up overripened bananas! If your bananas aren’t quite ready you can ripen them quickly by popping them in a 350°F oven for 10-15 mins wrapped in foil!
You can also add in up to 2 tablespoons of peanut butter to make peanut butter banana chocolate chip muffins! Yum!
PRO TIP
When it comes to measuring flour, don’t use your measuring cups to scoop it out of the bag or container, rather use a spoon or scoop to scoop it into this measuring cup. This helps to avoid muffins that are too dense. Check out this How to Measure Flour guide for more helpful tips!
How to Make Banana Muffins
Mixing these treats up will take only a few minutes out of a busy day!
- Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl. Add both kinds of chocolate chips.
- Combine wet ingredients in a bowl. Slowly add dry to wet until just combined (do not overmix).
- Bake until a toothpick comes out clean. Do not over bake.
Muffin Baking Times
- For mini muffins, bake 14 to 16 minutes
- For regular-sized muffins, bake 18 to 20 minutes
- For Texas (jumbo) sized muffins, bake 20 to 22 minutes
How to Store
The best way to store banana chocolate chip muffins is to keep them in a zippered bag or an airtight container at room temperature. They will keep about 5 days.
To freeze, either wrap them individually in a layer of plastic wrap under a layer of aluminum foil or put them in a zippered bag with the date on it and pop them in the freezer! A frozen muffin will be defrosted by lunchtime for a delicious surprise! Easy peasy!
More Easy Banana Recipes
- Classic Banana Bread – perfectly simple
- Banana Oatmeal Cookies – extra soft & delicious
- Easy Banana Bread – a no-fail favorite!
- Banana Muffins – perfect grab-and-go snack
- Grandpa’s Banana Cupcakes – fun and tasty treat
- Banana Breakfast Cookies – loaded with healthy ingredients!
- Easy Banana Bran Muffins – soft & moist
Did you enjoy these Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins? Be sure to leave a rating and a comment below!
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup mashed bananas about 3 medium
- 1 large egg room temperature
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ¼ cup milk chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line a muffin pan with paper liners.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Combine sugar, bananas, egg, oil, and vanilla in a medium bowl.
- Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
- Pour into prepared muffin tin and bake 18-20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Do not overbake.
- Cool 5 minutes in the pan before removing and cooling on a baking rack.
Notes
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Breakfast, Dessert, Muffins
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Quick to mix together, only a short time to bake rather than the 50 minutes it takes to bake a loaf of banana bread. Soft and delicious, especially warm. So even on a hot summer day, it’s ok to turn the oven on and bake these for 18 minutes! Thanks
delicious muffins. I made a couple changes. I use melted butter instead of vegetable oil. I also use 2 eggs and add a scoop of sour cream for extra moisture. a hit with the whole fam!
Hi Holly. I’m a non-baker and want to make sure I follow your directions correctly making these. When you say “mix just until combined”, do you just use a spoon or spatula to do this or do you use an electric mixer? Thanks!
Tracy, I would use a spoon or a spatula.
10 out 10!
My family LOVES these! My son is one of the pickiest people that I know, he absolutely won’t eat any fruit. (He doesn’t even like fruit flavored things.) He picked one up and ate it and then grabbed a plate and put 3 more on his plate. We eat them for breakfast, snack and, dessert. Thank you for such a great recipe! I just made a triple batch.
These muffins are scrumptious. The best recipe I have found for banana chocolate chip muffins.
I just made these muffins earlier this morning and subbed brown sugar for regular. I also used slightly less oil. They turned out delicious! Next time I’ll bake them for a little less than 18mins to prevent really browned muffin tops. (:
Perfect muffins every time!
Make these all the time & so yummy!
Best banana chocolate chip muffins we’ve ever had. I made a single batch last weekend and today I tripled the recipe because it was such a huge hit in our house! Thank you!
Perfect and I don’t even like chocolate or cooking bananas but I made these for a friend who does and they were delicious.
Yummo as published. My family loved them. This is a recipe you will go back to over and over.
I decided to play around with the recipe on the second batch (it’s just my thing; not meant to demean the original recipe). I made the following substitutions, and they were also yummy: Reduce flour to 1 3/8 cups and add 1/8 cup cornstarch, sub brown sugar for white sugar (same quantity), sub melted, unsalted butter for oil (same quantity) and change egg quantity to 2. Follow the same instructions as the original recipe.
Thank you!
I make these for my boyfriend and I all the time and all of our friends love! It has become a staple treat in our household.
These were amazing. I was bored so I made them for breakfast and they were better that I expected
These muffins were amazing!
These are the best muffins I’ve ever had in my life.
I made the chocolate chip banana muffins and they worked out perfect. Thanks for the recipe. I’m looking forward to trying other recipes.
Love these muffins!! They are so moist and delicious. The first time I made these muffins to bring into work for coworkers; everybody loved them. They are always asking me to make them again.
Delivious
My family loves these. I make them almost every week. I also replace the oil with apple sauce and butter the muffin mole instead of paper cups.