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These Apple Banana Muffins are a super alternative to “boxed” cupcakes. Vadim and I love any kind of dessert with fruit. These are especially moist.
You can frost them as cupcakes or enjoy them as muffins with milk or your morning coffee. Kids really enjoy them too; after all, it looks like a cupcake! We each ate 3 right out of the oven.
Ingredients Apple Banana Muffins:
2 apples, peeled, cored and finely diced
1 cup ripe mashed bananas
1 ¼ cups white sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 eggs at room temperature
2/3 cup unsalted butter at room temperature (10 tablespoons or 1 ¼ sticks)
¼ cup buttermilk
1 tsp salt
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda
How to make Apple Banana Muffins:
Pre-heat oven to 375°F.
1. Line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
2. Mix together 2 cups of flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp nutmeg and 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
3. In a large mixing bowl ( I used my KitchenAid), beat 10 Tbsp of butter and 1 1/4 cups of sugar together on medium speed until it has a light and fluffy texture.
4. Without reducing the speed, add 2 eggs one at a time, add 1 tsp vanilla extract and 1/4 cup buttermilk.
5. Finally, beat in the flour mixture.
6. Use a spoon to fold in the 2 diced apples and 1 cup of mashed bananas.
7. Fill the lined muffin cups about half-way.
Bake until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes.
I love these frosted with my Russian Cream Cheese Frosting.
Notes: If you only have a 12 count muffin pan, you can fill it first and bake the rest in a small baking dish.
Apple Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- 2 apples, peeled, cored and finely diced
- 1 cup ripe mashed bananas
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 2/3 cup unsalted butter at room temperature, 10 tablespoons or 1 ¼ sticks
- ¼ cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
Instructions
Pre-heat oven to 375°F and line 24 muffin cups with paper liners.
- Mix together 2 cups flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp nutmeg and 1/2 tsp cinnamon.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the 1 1/4 sticks of butter and 1 1/4 cups of sugar together on medium speed until it has a light and fluffy texture.
- Without reducing the speed, add 2 eggs one at a time, add 1 tsp vanilla extract and 1/4 cup of buttermilk.
- Finally, beat in the flour mixture.
- Use a spoon to fold in the apples and banana.
- Fill the lined muffin cups about half-way.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes.
Notes
Thank you so much for this delicious recipe , I just baked today and it came out so good and tasty.. Thank you again
I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe! 🙂
Hey Natalya. Just made these cupcakes but didn’t have apples on hand so substituted with pears. They turn out delicious! I have 3 children 3year old. 2 year old and 1 year old…and they all LOVED THEM. I made these with apples earlier as well and same result..didn’t last long
I hadn’t even thought to try them with pears. Brilliant! Thank you for sharing that with me 🙂
How would this bake different, oven temp and time-wise, if I make these into large loafs? Same temp and longer time?
Without testing it myself, it’s really hard to guess since different loaves bake at different times. I’d keep the same temperature and poke the bread at 30 minutes. Bake until toothpick comes out clean. Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Made this over the weekend & got through a quarter of the batter pre-baking Natasha…pity we started out with 18 cupcakes and only had 1 left the day after. Amazing recipe even with egg subs: 1/4 cup yoghurt + 1 tablespoon arrowroot powder. Thank you so much for your amazing recipes! Can’t wait to try more.
Thank you so much for sharing your egg subs! 🙂
A delicious twist to banana bread! love!
I wonder how this would taste as a loaf?… Hmmm. 🙂
I was wondering if I could substitute the buttermilk with sourcream?
I’ve never made that substitution so I can’t say exactly how it will turn out. Technically the sour cream would activate the baking soda but I don’t know if you might have a batter that’s slightly too thick? If you try it out, I’d love to know how it worked out 🙂 Sour cream apple banana muffins sound pretty good right now 🙂
Dear Natasha,
I began making these muffins but then I saw that in the printed version in the ingredients list it says to do 2 cups of flour while in the instructions it says to mix in only 1 1/4 cups of flour….so which one is it: 1 1/4 or 2 cups of flour? 🙂
Thank you for catching that :), use 2 cups of flour. I will update the recipe right now.
H Natasha,
Any reason why this recipe the bater is not so liquidy? But the vanilla and chocolate muffins is more liquid in terms of consistency.
Also can I replace the eggs with water and some vinegar ? Will that work?
Thanks from Singapore.
The batter for these muffins is thicker than the batter for the chocolate or vanilla cupcakes. To be honest, I haven’t tried replacing the eggs with water and vinegar. I actually haven’t heard of that substitution. Anyone else have thoughts on that?
This is probably too late but I find 1/4 cup greek yoghurt + 1 tablespoon of arrowroot powder to substitute 2 eggs works really well for most cakes/muffins.
Thank you so much for sharing!! I need to get some arrowroot. Where’s the best place to buy it? Or is it available everywhere?
Thank YOU for amazing recipes 🙂 Here in Australia, I managed to pick some up from a general supermarket so I’m pretty positive they should be available anywhere in the U.S?
I’ve never commented on your web page but pretty much tried making most of your recipes. I LOVE each one you have posted. I’ve never been disappointed and only have great results. This particular recipe is what’s causing my drastic weight gain 🙂 You are amazing with all the pictures, and easy to follow instructions. Thank you for having such an awesome web page.
Thank you so much and it’s awesome to hear from you! I always appreciate the encouragement ;). I’m so glad you’ve enjoyed the recipes. I have plenty more to come. I’m pretty sure I’ll be writing recipes way past retirement. lol. Anyway, thanks again! 🙂
Muffins taste great and are a treat for my kiddos. But for some reason my muffins came out so sticky. Like half the muffin stuck to the wrapper. I followed the recipe exactly but the liquids seemed almost too wet. Do you think this could be the problem?
These muffins are delicious! My husband and son loved them. Will be making them again tonight. I love your recipes! They always come out perfect! Thank you!
You’re so welcome 🙂 I’m so happy your family enjoyed the muffins 🙂
Thank you for this simple recipe. I make them often now, sucks my 2 year old does’t really like sweets except candies but my husband and I we enjoy it. Its soo easy takes me 1 hour to make cuz i only have one muffin pan so I do 2 portions.
My 3 year old was that way for the first two years of his life and then he warmed up to cakes. Have you tried the wafer cake? It kind of looks like candy and it’s super easy!! https://natashaskitchen.com/2012/03/07/ukrainian-waffle-cake-with-dulce-de-leche/
i just made these!! they are SO GOOD!!! thank you so much for the recipe!!:)
You are welcome Natasha, I have a hard time with portion control around them :).
CAn I substitute buttermilk for whole milk ?thank you.
Yes you can, just add 1/4 tsp of white vinegar to it and mix it before adding it, that works as a substitution.
Наташа, я очень люблю готовить и у нас дома очень часто собираются много гостей. У меня очень много разных рецептов, но в каждый раз, когда я собираюсь готовить, я стараюсь найти или придумать что–то новенького чтобы удивить своих родных и гостей . Конечно я готовила и по твоим рецептам и хочу сказать что всегда всё получается очень вкусно. Я никогда не сомневалась что начну чего–то готовить и не получится. Ты очень молодая но очень хорошая хозяйка !!! Очень нравится и рецепты твоей мамы. Спасибо Вам за великолепные рецепты и за полезные советы! Наташа у тебя очень красивая семья, пусть Бог вас обильно благословит!
Thank you so much! It took me a little bit to read your comment but it made my heart glad 🙂 God bless you as well and I’m so happy you enjoy the recipes!
I’m in nursing school and made these (along with your chocolate chip cookies) for a bake sale we were having to raise money for the American Heart Association. They were the first thing to go! Thanks so much 🙂
Awesome, you are welcome Jennifer :).
Natasha , would it still taste good if i dont add nutmeg and cinammon ?
They still taste great :).
Just made them and they are THE bomb. I added a little more cinnamon and made them in miniature muffin pans. The best little bite size fall muffins(;
Planning to make them again for Thanksgiving!
They would be THE BOMB as minis. 🙂 I’m so happy you liked them.
Tomorrow morning I will try to make this for breakfast! Hopefully my son would love it! Wish me luck 😉
They are a nice treat. I hope he loves them too!
I’m glad that I tried your recipe! It’s really moist, and to mix banana with apple are perfection! 😀
I’m glad that you liked the recipe. They do go together very well:)
I was just thinking. I wish I can bake and eat and not gain weight. I would of baked something for every day 🙂
It’s ok if you eat just one. Who am I kidding? I could never eat just one!! What’s the best butter substitute that’s natural?
So I use apple sauce for oat meal cookies.
Recently made muffins with canned pineapaple with out of box cake mixture. Replaced egg and butter with pineapple and it was yummy(I was surprised how yummy)
I am so weak when it comes to this baked goods, I find excuse why I can have more than one.
I wonder how that apple sauce would work for this? It does have apple pieces in it. Maybe? It will have to be an experiment!
No apple pieces in the sauce.
Oh I mean in the muffins (it’s part of the recipe) 😉
Just three?
Thats all I could admit since I frosted mine.