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Blueberry Banana Bread Muffins

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.
5 from 1 vote

Ingredients

Dry Ingredients:

  • 2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3-1/2 teaspoons baking powder

Egg, Sugars, Oil and Milk:

  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup (packed) brown sugar light or dark brown sugar
  • 3 tablespoons canola oil
  • 1/3 cup milk

Bananas and Blueberries:

  • 3 medium-size overripe bananas peeled and mashed (should equal about 1-1/4 heaping cups of mashed bananas)
  • 1-1/2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries rinsed and stems removed

Topping:

  • 1-1/2 tablespoons 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.