Description
Vegan banana muffins are here! These muffins are comforting, banana-y, and perfectly buttery and moist! If you have 3-4 extra ripe bananas sitting on your counter, this is the recipe for you.
This recipe walks you through how to make vegan banana muffins, the best way to store muffins, and tips for getting a tall fluffy dome on vegan muffins!
Ingredients
Wet:
- 3–4 mashed bananas (3 if large, 4 if small/medium– it’s forgiving)
- 1/3 cup melted butter
- 1/4 cup non-dairy milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Dry:
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar (white, cane, or brown sugar)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2t salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
Instructions
- Prepare the wet ingredients. Using a fork or potato masher, peel all bananas into a mixing bowl and mash thoroughly until smooth and creamy. Add melted butter, milk, and vanilla extract and combine.
- Add the dry ingredients. Sprinkle flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg across the top of the wet ingredients and stir until just combined. A few spots of dry flour are ok. The batter should be pretty thick.
- Use a large cookie scoop or two spoons to fill muffin tins- fill the muffin tins to the top.
- Bake in a preheated 400* oven for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes reduce heat to 350 and bake for an additional 13 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in a muffin is free from batter and only has a few dry crumbs attached or is completely clean.
- Let cool in the muffin pan for 10 minutes before handling or removing.
- Store in a glass or plastic container on the counter with the lid cracked (to prevent sticky muffin tops) for 2-3 days.
Notes
Muffin liners are optional! We never use liners when we bake these but we have a newish muffin pan in good condition. If you are using a very worn muffin tin, you may need to use liners.
For best results, thoroughly mash the bananas. Vegan muffins tend to develop a ‘gummy’ texture as they lack eggs that provide structure. Large chunks of banana can weigh down the muffin and encourage a gummier texture.
You can use any non-dairy milk in this recipe.
If you fill muffin cups all the way to the top, this recipe yields 9 muffins. To make 12 muffins, fill muffin cups 1/2 of the way up.
Keywords: Vegan Banana muffins