One-Bowl Easy Banana Nut Muffins (with Video!)
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These soft, moist, easy banana nut muffins are loaded with banana flavor and studded with walnuts for a little crunch. No need for a mixer – just use one bowl and stir everything together with a wooden spoon!
If you love baking with bananas as much as we do, you should also try my Best Banana Bread Recipe, and Coconut Lime Glazed Banana Bread!
Easy banana nut muffins are perfect for breakfast or as an after-school snack! And they freeze well, which is perfect for busy mornings when you need something on-the-go!
Everybody needs a good way to use up bananas that end up getting overly ripe sitting on the counter. My girls go through phases where they are obsessed with bananas and can’t get enough of them and then suddenly they decide they don’t want anymore and I’m left with a bunch of bananas turning spotty before I know it.
When that happens and the bananas are past their prime, nobody in our house will go anywhere near them.
That’s when I either peel, slice, and freeze the bananas or bake up a batch of coconut lime glazed banana bread or these easy banana nut muffins. The frozen bananas can be used in recipes in the future and are perfect for smoothies, too.
This is my favorite basic banana bread recipe that I have been making for years. It uses lots of bananas for major banana flavor, which is great because when we have overly ripe bananas, it’s usually a bunch of them, not just one or two.
And since I’m a big fan of nuts in basically everything, I add some chopped walnuts and bake it in muffin pans instead of loaf pans for easy, single servings that I can throw in the freezer and reheat one or two for quick weekday breakfasts or after school snacks for my girls. They freeze really well for 2-3 months and are delicious with a glass of cold milk or some fresh fruit.
I love, love, love breaking warm banana nut muffins open and spreading a little strawberry jam on the inside before eating it for that delicious strawberry-banana combination.
How to Make Banana Nut Muffins
- Mash 3-4 ripe bananas in a large mixing bowl with a fork. Add the melted butter and stir them together with a wooden spoon.
- Stir in the sugar, egg, and vanilla, then sprinkle the baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt over the wet ingredients and stir to combine.
- Add the flour and nuts at the same time, and stir just until no streaks of flour remain.
- Divide the batter between 12 greased muffin cups and bake at 350 degrees F for 20 to 24 minutes until golden brown.
Tips for the Best Banana Nut Muffins
- There is just a hint of cinnamon in these moist banana muffins, which really makes a difference and they have beautiful, golden brown muffin tops. You can sprinkle a few extra chopped walnuts on top of the muffins, if you want, and they get nicely toasted in the oven while the muffins are baking.
- Don’t get too hung up on the number of bananas. If you only have 2 bananas, that will work too, there will just be slightly less banana flavor in these muffins.
- Like almost any muffin recipe, overmixing the batter can cause them to be dense, rather than light and tender.
- Fill the muffin cups mostly full before baking. I prefer to spray my muffin cups with cooking spray rather than use muffin liners for these banana nut muffins.
- You could easily make this recipe into a loaf of banana nut bread by pouring the batter into a loaf pan and baking for 50 to 55 minutes in a 350 degree oven, until a tester inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean.
More Muffin Recipes You Are Sure to Love
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- Raspberry Streusel Muffins
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Easy Banana Nut Muffins
These soft, moist, easy banana nut muffins are loaded with banana flavor and studded with walnuts for a little crunch. No need for a mixer - just use one bowl and stir everything together with a wooden spoon!
Ingredients
- 3-4 ripe bananas, mashed
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts, plus extra for topping if desired
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a muffin tin by lightly greasing the cups or lining them with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, combine the melted butter and mashed bananas and stir with a large wooden spoon.
- Stir in the sugar, egg, and vanilla, then sprinkle the baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt over the banana batter and give it another stir to combine.
- Add the flour and nuts last and stir just until no streaks of flour remain.
- Evenly divide the batter among the cups of a lightly greased muffin tin. If you want, sprinkle the top of each muffin with a few additional chopped walnuts before baking.
- Bake for 20-24 minutes, until golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted in the middle of one of the muffins comes out clean.
Notes
If you want to make a loaf of banana bread instead of muffins, just pour all of the batter into a lightly greased loaf pan and bake for 50-55 minutes, or until a sharp knife inserted near the center of the loaf comes out clean.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Amount Per Serving: Calories: 355Saturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 183mgCarbohydrates: 44gFiber: 3gSugar: 17gProtein: 7g
I really enjoy banana nut muffins. I think they are the perfect combination for a muffin. I love the fact that these are so easy and I appreciate the size of them. Not too big like you see in some coffee shops. Nice job.
My husband would probably continually kiss me if I made these for him – ha!
About how many muffins does your recipe make?? Thanks
Angel
I get about 12 muffins each time.
I get 18 to 21 cup cakes – using a 1/4 cup to measure with.
mine made only 7, but i did fill each muffin to the top
These muffins sound SO good. My whole family is going to be so excited when I make these for them.
Oh, these look delicious. I love easy recipes, and muffins are one of my faves to make. I will give this a try, I’m sure they’ll be a huge hit with my kiddos too!
Banana bread and muffins are amongst my mom’s favorites. This recipe would be perfect for her, she’d love that it didn’t need the big heavy mixer.
I just love banana flavored things! I’ll be making this soon! I could use a delicious muffin!
Banana bread is one of our favorites as far as sweetbreads go. They are so easy to make and they are so delicious. I love the idea of being able to do it all in one bowl! You totally want me out on this one. Signed me up.
MY kids go ape for banana anything. I’m sure I’ll have to at least double batch the recipe
Yay! So happy to see this recipe! Another good and easy recipe that I can make over the weekend or probably this easter I can add this too.
These banana nut muffins sound amazing but I am really going to check out your morning glory muffins! Those really sound awesome and so healthy!
These look so good! I like to make muffins for my kids, they are great and quick breakfast option when made ahead of time. Thanks for the recipe!
I love banana bread. Not sure why I never tried making banana nut muffins. This recipe looks so yummy.
These look awesome! Banana bread is a favorite in our house.
These look delicious and easy enough for me to make in the midst of a crazy morning with the kids at my feet! Plus we love banana bread/muffins, so I can’t wait to try. Thanks for sharing, adding it to my recipe box!
Oh those sound so good! I often pick some banana nut muffins up at the coffee shop but I really should make my own. I need to give your recipe a try.
Oh my gosh how delicious do these sound! I love that they are so easy to make I need to try them for myself.
Great recipe! I like that it’s one bowl, tastes like banana, cinnamon and nuts. This recipe was easy!
My husband is a wonderful cook & baker and he liked how these turned out when I made them. I didn’t have white sugar so I used 1/8 c of stevia and the rest of the 3/4 white sugar I replaced with part honey part maple syrup. I added extra cinnamon and extra vanilla because we like a lot of both. I also added ground flax seed. I will use this recipe again and again.
I’m so glad you enjoyed this recipe! The modifications you made would be really helpful for a lot of other readers – thank you for sharing! I think I will have to try adding ground flax seed next time myself!
I loved this recipe ..soo good and easy thank you i added chocolate chips for kids ..
Great recipe! I made these tonight except i used pecans instead of walnuts. They were very delicious. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
You are welcome! Pecans are a yummy change!
Just made these, delicious!! I was low on sugar so I did 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup honey, still delicious. I also added chocolate chips. Love this recipe!
just mixed these up and put those ba dboys i the oven ! xo thanks for sharing !
These are the best banana nut muffins I have ever made! I like to make them in mini size and they turn out wonderfully! I also love that it only takes one bowl because that means less dishes. Can’t wait to try some of your other recipes!
I’m so glad you loved these! We make them mini too – especially when taking them for preschool snack!
How long would you bake these if you make 6 jumbo muffins. That the size my husband likes
I would extend the bake time by about 5 minutes and see how that works.
Yum!!! These are so good. I have made them several times plus used the recipe to make banana bread. I have some of the muffins in the kitchen right now. I sprinkle the tops of the muffins or bread with Turbinado sugar. I also like to butter the bread pan so I can sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar. I did use half white half brown sugar. If you have an air fryer they are so good reheated in it. It works well on muffins or bread since they get wet. I pre-heat my air fryer for 2 mins @ 400° & heat the muffins or bread for 3 mins @ 400°. I like the slight crispy taste it gives them.
I don’t have an air fryer yet but I like the sound of adding a little bit of crisp taste when reheating!
Best banana nut muffins I’ve ever had! Thanks for the recipe!
You are welcome!
I used coconut sugar in place of granulated sugar and it came out perfect! Thank you for the recipe. These muffins were delicious!
I tried this recipe with a few modifications. I needed to replace the all-purpose flour with Gluten free flour. And then because I like more nuts I put both walnuts and pecans. And then just cause I put a bit of a pinch more or less of allspice, cloves and nutmeg……….OMG so GOOD!!!!!!!!!
I only had 2 ripe bananas so I halved this recipe, added dark chocolate chips, and substituted pecans for walnuts and the muffins are FANTASTIC! The ratios are perfect. Will definitely make these again… hopefully with more bananas!!!!
Ooh, I love the dark chocolate and pecan variation! That may need to happen at my house soon too!
I made these for breakfast……the smells coming from the kitchen alone was a wonderfully pleasant aroma to wake up to…..thanks for sharing this ❤.
Just made these- what a great recipe! I made it exactly as stated with the exception of adding extra walnuts and peanut butter chips- amazing!! I also read another recipe where they added a little coffee or espresso- I might try that next time.
Thanks for the great, easy recipe!
Ooh, I’ve made these with chocolate chips but never peanut butter chips. That sounds delicious!
I added some Craisins and they were amazing! Thank you…so easy too 😁
This was so easy and no mixer was involved. My family loved these muffins.
I made these last night, so easy and fast. We loved them, thank you .
Just took them out of the oven. The muffins look and smell amazing! Can wait to eat them 🙂
I just made these muffins and they are delicious. Thank you! Am going to have to give them away quickly or I will eat them all!
Absolutely delicious!
The best banana nut muffins ever! The recipe is perfect as is, no need to add nor change anything! And most importantly, my family loves them!
made these today exactly how the recipe stated…
SO GOOD! i have to STOP myself from eating the entire pan of muffins! definitely will make again!
M and my 6 year old daughter just made these they were easy enough to just let her to everything while I assisted can’t wait to try them they smell amazing
I made these with my granddaughter and they are delicious! I used a mini muffin pan and had exactly enough.
I made mine with my grandbaby 😍 and she loves it
I made this as a loaf and added chocolate chips and it was incredible. Hands down the best banana bread I’ve ever had, plus it’s so simple to make. HIGHLY recommend
These are great! Ive made them twice already!
These are amazing! So much for the diet today!
Made these this morning. Added a bit more cinnamon, but oh boy, these are so tasty and easy peasy!! This is a keeper recipe. Thank you for posting.
I cooked these in my mini cupcake clamshell, and they are SOOOO delicious.
I accidentally misunderstood and used too much butter, but I don’t think there’s any such thing as “too much butter”…lol. Must be the southern girl in me…
Go raibh míle maith agat!!! (Thanks a million, in Irish)
I love the little brown squiggles of banana that FILL these, and the walnuts send it over the top!!💚
Would love to try these, but don’t know how to print it.
Hi Dorthey! There is a print button right under the picture in the recipe card itself. If you click on it, a new window should come up with a recipe that is formatted to print easily.
Dorothy, I rarely print recipes anymore since I don’t have a good printer handy at home now. I either have it emailed to me to pull up or use my phone camera and take screen shots on my phone. Just a thought 😊
I love the low sugar and egg count compared to other banana nut muffin/bread recipes! And the vanilla and cinnamon are such a great touch! Very easy recipe!
These are awesome!!!!!! I tried a few other recipes but keep coming back to these. I also like how easy these are to make.
Thank you, Kristeen! I’m so glad you enjoy the recipe!
Delicious and so easy to make!!
This recipe came up so good!!!! Everyone loved it… maybe I should put brown sugar in it next time!
Best banana nut muffins I have had. Excellent recipe!
Thank you, Michelle!
Thank you for your info
Very easy to make. I made medium sized cup cakes and the recipe gave me 14 cupcakes. I followed the recipe exactly as written and they came out perfectly. I will be using this recipe many more times.
These are absolutely amazing! I doubled the recipe, used 1 cup whole wheat flour and two cups white flour. Used some great honey (and used 3/4 cup total for the double recipe). And used pecans, small pieces in the muffins, and a whole one on top. These were probably the most flavorful ever. I realized what is different – the cinnamon! Great idea, thank you!
Perfect Banana Bread. Love it!
This has become my go to breakfast muffin recipe. I cut the sugar to 1/2 cup, because I often add dark chocolate chunks and substitute macadamia nuts for the walnuts…so decadent and a pleasing way to start the day with a cup of Hawaiian coffee!
Now I need to try these dark chocolate macadamia nut muffins of which you speak. They sound wonderful!
Just made these muffins. I like how it doesn’t feel like your eating air. My grandkids are devouring them.
Thank you
You’re welcome!
These are wonderful and sooo easy to make.
I made this for my husband today!! My first time making any kind of bread and I am glad I selected your recipe from google search. I made a loaf of banana bread instead of muffins. Delish! Thanks
Great recipe! I just made it. Followed directions exactly and I have 12 perfect banana muffins. They taste marvelous! Very easy to make. Kind of recipe you can easily memorize. Love it. Thanks
Hi. Do you use salted or unsalted butter? Tyia
I use salted butter.
These muffins are delicious! I filled mine advisability to the top and got 12 muffins out of it. I only used 2.5 bananas so i would have enough for 2 batches and the 2nd batch i added 3/4 c chocolate chips. These are the best homemade muffins I’ve ever made. So happy i found this recipe!
Super delicious! I used half a cup each of walnuts and mini chocolate chips. Mmmmmm
What can I substitute baking soda with? I only have baking powder. Thanks in advance!
If you only have baking soda, I would try increasing the baking powder to 3 teaspoons instead of just 1.
Great recipe! I doubled it and made both muffins and a loaf. I added some apricot jam in place of one banana and a half cup of chopped dates. My husband loved these♥️and they were super easy to make!!
I found this recipe a few months ago and have honestly lost count of how many times I’ve made it! They turn out perfect Every. Time. My family purposely buys too many bananas so they’ll go brown and I’ll make these muffins!
I used brown sugar instead & added a pinch of ground ginger & cloves…. SO YUMMY!
What the adjustments to making this with all whole wheat flour?
I want the consistency to be just as soft and airy as using all purpose flour. LOVE the original recipe! Love to see if I can make it with healthier flour so I won’t feel bad when eating it all the time lol!
I’m so glad you love it! I have made it with half whole wheat and half all-purpose flour, but never all whole wheat flour yet! My guesses for what might help maintain the softness would be to replace 2 tablespoons of each cup of flour with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and see if that helps though. If you try it, I would love to know what your results are like!
This recipe is AMAZING! It’s so easy to make and so delicious! 😃
These are delightful! I love to bake, but don’t always enjoy the cleanup! This recipe takes care of all of that! I used four very ripe bananas and the muffins were very moist and yummy!
Delicious and couldn’t be easier to make!
Wow. I am eating one of these after it’s been out of oven for 30mins. Still warm. Absolutely delicious. I just wanted to make a quick batch of banana nut muffins, thought of it at the last minute when I had to get up at 6 a.m. and work from home and my boyfriend and his son are still asleep. My boyfriend loves banana muffins but with lots and lots of walnuts. I only had three bananas so that’s all I used and it was the perfect amount. Absolutely just delicious, nice and moist and very flavorful. I used to have a favorite recipe for banana bread but I believe this will be by new one. I love that I could only use one bowl, also. the only change I made to it was I did not use a full teaspoon of cinnamon in the mix because I don’t usually like cinnamon with bananas I just put a dash of it in the mix, and then on top of the muffins I sprinkled a little bit of cinnamon sugar mix that I have for toast. Yum, yum, yum. Thank you!!!
I made these muffins today and we like them!! They are very easy to mix up and bake and the flavor and texture is wonderful!! I used 4 bananas that were pretty ripe and I cut the sugar to 1/2 cup. I added chopped walnuts and sprinkled extra cinnamon on top of the batter before baking. I will definitely be baking these again!
I’ve been using your recipe as my base for the past year and I love it! One bowl is the BEST, esp as a mom who hates extra dishes. My changes to this are as follows: I use sprouted spelt or einkorn flour, use 1/2 cup coconut sugar + 6 drops liquid stevia, up the salt to 1/4 tsp, and toast the walnuts before addind to batter. I love how I can make these changes to suit our needs/tastes and still have an amazing muffin. Thank you for the delicious recipe!
Thank you so much for sharing you adjustments! I’m so glad you love this muffin recipe!
I have a batch of these in the oven right now! I have made them several times because they are so good! I also love that they are so easy to make! My mother and brother are also big fans. My brother, who is not a sweet eater, will even give me his over ripe bananas and say ” you need to make me muffins with these.” This is and will always be my go to recipe for banana nut muffins!
Love this easy recipe. A lot of the banana muffin or bread recipes have milk. I like this so much better. I only changed one thing. I used brown sugar instead of regular sugar. Very good! Just like a recipe I got from an international cookbook years ago.
Easy to assemble….. Love the 1 bowl method here.
Made 14 but I usually divide a typical 12 serving recipe into 14. Baked these the same amount of time.
Turned the broiler on to brown the tops. I just love the little extra toastiness.
Yum very good. Thank you
I make this over and over in a loaf. My husband and I absolutely love this recipe. I add chocolate chips or recently tried espresso chips and chopped pecans. Divine! I toast a thick slice and put a bit of butter or jam on it for breakfast. The hard part is waiting for the bananas to over ripe.
I have made these twice now…and I love them. Both times I had only 3 bananas and I added a couple extra shortcuts (didn’t beat egg before mixing it in…and added the bananas to the bowl of melted butter and mashed them with butter) and they were still amazing. I also used my larger muffin tins and got 7 (not as big as Costco muffins) Super moist. Delish. Thanks.
Just made these! Absolutely delicious! Followed recipe exactly! 4 bananas. Did throw in a half teaspoon of almond extract. Recipe made exactly 12 muffins in my cupcake pan! My girls are devouring them as I type this! Thank you for this recipe it will be treasured !😊
My granddaughter and I made these! They were moist and so much flavor ! She took them home and her daddy said these were the best banana bread muffins EVER! Thanks for sharing your recipe!