Enjoy these blueberry banana bread muffins for breakfast, dessert or just because. They're moist in the middle with a delightful light crunch on the top.
(additional time if baking muffins in 2 batches): 20 minutesminutes
Total: 55 minutesminutes
Ingredients
Dry Ingredients:
2-1/2cupsall-purpose flour
1teaspoonsalt
3-1/2teaspoonsbaking powder
Egg, Sugars, Oil and Milk:
1largeegg
1/2cupgranulated sugar
1/2cup (packed)brown sugarlight or dark brown sugar
3tablespoonscanola oil
1/3cupmilk
Bananas and Blueberries:
3medium-sizeoverripe bananas peeled and mashed (should equal about 1-1/4 heaping cups of mashed bananas)
1-1/2cupsfresh or frozen blueberriesrinsed and stems removed
Topping:
1-1/2tablespoons sanding sugar(or other type of large crystal sugar such as decorator's sugar or pearl sugar)
Equipment
Muffin (or cupcake) baking pan
Paper muffin or cupcake liners (or grease the muffin pan cavities with butter)
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Dry Ingredients:
In a medium size mixing bowl, add flour, salt and baking powder. Whisk together and set aside.
Egg, Sugars, Oil and Milk:
In a medium to large size mixing bowl, add an egg. Whisk until the yolk and white part are combined.
To the bowl, add granulated sugar, brown sugar, canola oil and milk. Whisk together until combined. Set aside.
Bananas:
In a small bowl, add peeled overripe bananas. With a dinner-size fork, mash the bananas until there are small chunks.
Batter:
To the bowl with the egg and sugar mixture, add the mashed bananas.
Lightly whisk the ingredients together.
Add the dry ingredients to the bowl. Using a large sturdy spoon, gently stir to form the batter.
Blueberries:
To the bowl with the batter, add the blueberries. Using the large sturdy spoon, gently stir the blueberries into the batter.
Add Batter to Baking Pan:
To each cavity in the baking pan, add a cupcake or muffin paper liner.Or, instead of using paper liners, brush softened butter inside each cavity in the baking pan.
Fill each paper liner 3/4's full of batter.
Topping:
Sprinkle sanding sugar (or other type of large crystal white sugar) on top of the batter for each muffin.
Bake:
Bake in a preheated oven (at 375 degrees F.) until a wooden toothpick inserted in the middle of the muffins comes out dry (about 20 minutes).
Cool:
When the muffins are done cooking, carefully transfer them onto a cooling rack.
Let the muffins cool until they're cool enough to handle.
This recipe makes about 18 muffins so if using one 12-cavity muffin or cupcake baking pan, a second batch (with 6 muffins) will be required.
Serve:
Serve warm or at room temperature. These muffins are really good served slightly warm with a little butter.