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Chocolate Banana Muffins

A moist, chocolate filled muffin that makes excellent use of over ripe bananas.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients
  

  • 4 VERY ripe mushy bananas
  • 3/4 cup of sugar
  • 1/3 cup of melted unsalted butter
  • 1 egg preferably at room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon good quality vanilla
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour I use King Arthur
  • pinch of salt
  • 1 cup of either semisweet/bittersweet chocolate chips or chopped chocolate. I actually didn't use semisweet at all, but rather a combination of milk chocolate and bittersweet Callebaut, which is my preferred brand for baking. Any kind of chocolate is fine as long as it's good quality.
  • 2-3 oz. of bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate melted in a microwave. Check and stir every 20 seconds. Just before completely melted, stir and you're done.

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 350
  • Grease muffin tin with butter. (DO NOT use liners).
  • Place bananas in a large bowl along with the butter and mush it up with a fork until no large clumps of banana remain. Blend until smooth.
  • Now add the sugar, egg and vanilla and mix just until they're combined.
  • Add the salt and baking soda and stir.
  • Now add the flour and mix just until combined. DO NOT OVERMIX.
  • Add chocolate chips or chopped chocolate.
  • Divide mixture into muffin tins, filing about 3/4 full.
  • Now here's where the magic happens: take your melted chocolate and place about 1 teaspoon on top of muffins. Swirl, using a toothpick, to combine the chocolate with the muffin mixture slightly. I would have taken a picture of this, but like I said, I wasn't planning on sharing this recipe on the blog. I know. Crazy, right?
  • Bake until the center of a toothpick comes out clean (or almost clean). I like slightly undercooking my baked goods because I always think they come out moister that way.

Notes

The kind of chocolate you use is not super important. I used milk chocolate and bittersweet because that's what I had on hand. Semi-sweet is fine too, if that's all you have.
Remember, don't use a liner. These muffins are so moist that they'll fall apart when you remove the liner.