Delicious Banana Oatmeal Muffins made with mashed banana, apple sauce, nutty rolled oats with cinnamon-y oat stresusel topping
If you are looking for an easy healthy morning treat, then try this Banana oatmeal muffins. It is perfect to start the day with it and is full of goodness with banana and nutty rolled oats. If you love banana bread, then you are going to love banana muffins too as they are a mini version of banana bread. This Banana oatmeal muffins with Oatmeal streusel will be great for breakfast or snack. My kids love it.
How you make perfect muffins?
Muffins fall into simple quick bread category that are traditionally baked from a batter prepared from a mixture of egg, milk and melted shortening, butter oil stirred into sifted flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. When you mix in best proportion of ingredients, mixing, and baking results in a “standard” muffin” with good volume and a slightly rounded, golden brown, rough top. Although the interior crumb is coarse, it should be uniform and tender.
The traditional ratio for muffins and quick bread is 2 parts flour, 2 parts liquid, 1-part egg, and 1 part of oil or butter. If using butter, you need to use melted butter.
Because of the difference in the proportion of liquid to flour, less gluten develops with only slight mixing. While making muffins one thing to remember is that just mix enough to blend the dry ingredients and liquid ingredients but not enough to produce a smooth batter. When lifted with a spoon, the batter should break and separate easily. Too much mixing of the batter beyond the optimum amount results in a smoother and less lumpy batter. The increase in gluten development prevents the muffin from rising in the early part of the baking period resulting in a lighter slick crust with a duller appearance and a top which is not rounded but has peaks, tunnels or holes through the center of the muffin.
You can make variation in muffins by adding fresh or dry fruit, nuts. You can make muffins with regular flour or whole wheat or multigrain flour. However, muffins are slightly denser and heavier than regular white flour but still tasty though.
Muffins can sink in the middle when leaving is not used perfectly, prepared batter sit for too long or before putting it into the oven, and the baking powder spent itself before the baking began. Do not over mix the flour and ingredients. And, do not bake at wrong temperature, always set the oven to a high temperature burst lifts the muffin top up quickly and creates a tall crust. Even though muffins are baked at 350°F – 375°F the whole time, but set the oven to 425°F initially, then bring back down to 375°F. The initial high temperature give the lift to the muffin top up quickly and helps to creates a tall crust.
Once you baked the muffin, don't leave muffins in the hot tin to cool. Instead of immediately starting to cool, the hot pan will continue to cook the muffins, which might cause them to dry out.
To store muffins place them in a plastic bag, seal, and store at room temperature for up to 3 days. To freeze muffins and quick-bread loaves, wrap them tightly in heavy foil or place them in freezer bags, and freeze for up to 3 months. To reheat, wrap frozen muffins or loaves in heavy foil.
How to Make Banana oatmeal muffins?
To make soft banana oatmeal muffins, I used not only mashed banana, also unsweetened apple sauce. You can use instant oats if you want but I like to use rolled oats, it gives nuttier taste. I used oil for making this banana oatmeal muffins.
I think oatmeal streusel adds little crunch while having a bite. You can use nuts like walnut or pecan if you want.
These are great tasting as well as filling muffins.
Banana Oatmeal Muffins
Ingredients
- Batter
- 1 ½ cups 177g King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- ½ cup 108g granulated sugar
- 1 cup 98g Rolled oats
- ¼ cup 50g vegetable oil
- ¼ cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 1 ½ cups 376g mashed banana, 3 large bananas
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup 113g milk
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Topping
- ¼ cup 53g brown sugar
- ¼ cup 21g old-fashioned rolled oats
- 2 tablespoons 14g King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon 14g soft butter
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease a standard muffin tin, or line with papers and grease the papers.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, baking soda, and rolled oats
- In a large bowl combine the milk, egg, oil, applesauce, mashed banana, sugar, and vanilla extract in a bowl.
- Work the topping ingredients together until the mixture is crumbly.
- Whisk the flour mixture into the banana mixture. Combine everything barely enough even it has some flour crumb is there that is fine. Scoop the batter into the prepared muffin cups, filling them almost full.
- Sprinkle muffins with the topping.
- Bake the muffins for 15 to 16 minutes, until the muffins are set and browned. Remove from the oven and let rest in the pan for 5 minutes. Remove from the pan and enjoy warm.
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I baked this Banana Oatmeal Muffins as part of #MuffinMonday Please Check following delicious muffin bakes.
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
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This worked exactly as written, thanks!
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JuliaBee says
These are delicious. I followed the recipe to the letter. They are so flavorful. I’m thinking of hiding them from my hubby who is a huge fan of anything oatmeal.
sanjana says
wow they look amazing and super delicious.
Jane says
Just made these and they are awesome. Added raisins because I add raisins to everything and they came out great. They won't last until breakfast.
Suja Manoj says
Looks yummy Swathi, will surely try this.
Ana says
I love anything with oats and these banana oatmeal muffins look incredibly delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe with us. Would love to give it a try!
Rose Ann Sales says
Thanks for sharing the recipe! Sounds so delicious, I will definitely give it a try!
Janelle M says
Aw, this looks lovely. Yes, I will certainly give this a try (with vegan ingredients). Thank you for sharing the recipe.
Amber - WIth a Splash of Color says
These look absolutely delicious. I love muffins for breakfast.
Ruth I says
My family loves it when I bake banana muffin. It's a simple recipe I have. I am sure they would love this even more. It looks so good!
Terri Steffes says
I love using oatmeal in backed goods. I love the nuttiness and bulk it adds to the batter.
Kathy says
These sure do look amazing. I love having muffins. I've had banana ones before, but not banana oatmeal. I love oatmeal as well, so I'm sure these are really good.
Lynndee says
I'd love me some banana oatmeal muffins. They're so good. I need to do some baking around here.
Cheese Curd In Paradise says
We are big banana fans in this house and I love that you added oats to your muffins- what a great idea! I can't wait to try these!
Marysa says
These sound delicious. My kids love muffins and I like to make batches and freeze the extras so I have quick breakfasts that are premade.
Jen says
Over the top, the streusel top that is. Great recipe!
Danielle says
Oh yes, these oatmeal muffins are exactly what I need right now. I am out of breakfast options, so really need to make a load of these for the week. Thank you!
Tasheena says
This looks so yummy. It would be perfect to make and have on hand for the kiddos for breakfast in the morning.
Cathy Mini says
What a nice recipe to try. This banana oatmeal muffins look so delicious, I'd love to try making this.
Beth says
These look delicious and easy to make! I just need to get some applesauce and I'll be making these!
cait says
i was just saying the other day I needed to make some muffins and this recipe looks perfect to try it out 🙂 YUM
Kim says
I eat banana muffins every morning with breakfast. One of my all type favorite breakfast foods.
Amber Myers says
Yes please, these look incredible. I will have to make them with my kids. We enjoy having muffins in the house!
Karen @ Karen's Kitchen Stories says
These sound delicious and nutritious. Plus, I love anything with oat streusel.
Rebekah @ Making Miracles says
Ohhh these are calling my name! So many tasty favorites combined in these muffins!
melissa chapman says
I love everything about those muffins. I love banana and oatmeal and this would be a great treat for my family.
Stacy says
I adore your oatmeal streusel, Swathi! What beautiful muffins!
Wendy Klik says
I have a freezer full of ripe bananas and, thanks to you, I now have a home for them.