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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
Obviously meant….gobbled them up lol
Ha ha I figured that was what you meant!! 🙂
These are delicious. Just made a batch this afternoon and my family goggled them up. Will be good for breakfast and in lunches this week. Thanks! It’s a keeper:)
I’m so glad you all loved the recipe!! 🙂
Hi Natasha, I want to make this muffins, and I want to know if can I use whole wheat flour, they looks so delicious!!!!
Thanks for this recipe and all the recipes you have and the ones that are coming!!!!! God bless you and your family!!!
Hi Christina, I’m so glad you enjoy our recipes! 🙂 I haven’t tried these with whole wheat flour so I’m not sure if they would rise as well or be as fluffy without any additional modifications. Sorry I can’t be more helpful, I just haven’t tested that out.
Hi Natasha, I made this apple banana muffins, my family loved them. The second time I made them with whole wheat flour and brown sugar, both ways were delicious and nice and they rise and are fluffy!!!
Thanks for sharing your recipes!! Blessings!
Hello Cristina! I’m glad to hear the recipe is a HIT! Thank for following and sharing your great review! God Bless 🙂
So so good, Natasha! I don’t have nugmet so ommited. Right, I ate 2 right out from the oven 😜. Thank you! P.S How does it taste on the next day, still great?
Hi Kim, you can’t beat a fresh muffin but they will still taste good the next day 🙂
Thanks Natasha, We loved it , beautiful results and easy to make.
My pleasure! I’m glad you enjoy the recipe! Thanks for sharing 🙂
These are the best muffins I have ever made; and they are so moist and delicious. Thank you Natasha for a perfect receipe.
Nathalie Marlin
Oh wow, that’s great to hear Nathalie! Thanks for sharing your excellent review!
Thank you for sharing the recipe. Can you please tell me what kind of apple you used? Thank you.
Hi Lindsay, you can use almost any kind of apple you have on hand. I prefer a crisp, sweet tart apple like fuji or gala or braeburn, and even a granny smith would work if you prefer a little more tart apple.
I made these muffins last week and they were the best I have ever made. Thank you Natasha.
My pleasure Nathalie! I’m glad you enjoy the recipe! Thanks for sharing your great review!
HI natasha, I loved the muffins but when I tried to PIN it – it brought me to your pinterest sight with ALL your stuff. After 10 minutes I gave up lol.. Is there an easier way that when we like a recipe and want to Pin it that we can just go to it instead of having to search it through all your pinterest stuff….. cause you know once I start looking 3 hours will pass. lol
Crystal, which button did you click? Normally when you click the Pinterest button at the bottom of the recipe, it will just pin that recipe. Hope this helps 😀 and I know what you mean lol!
This is the first time I’ve every commeneed on an online recipe but I HAD to say thank you for sharing this deliciousness!!!!! Ohmigish. So tender and flavorful! Can’t wait to make them again 🙂 Didn’t have buttermilk in the fridge so used whole milk plus a little vinegar. Just so so delicious! Now I can’t wait to look through your website and try more dishes 🙂
That’s awesome and quite a compliment! I’m so happy you loved the recipe and thank you for sharing your tip about subbing milk + vinegar instead of buttermilk. So smart!! I sure appreciate your awesome review! 🙂
Loved these muffins! I didn’t have buttermilk, so I substituted with vanilla yogurt and it came out the same! I also added some raisins! Thanks Natasha!
I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe and thanks for sharing that it works well with vanilla yogurt! That’s awesome!! 🙂
I baked a bread for 60 min the same time as you had for zucchini bread:)
Thank you!! 🙂
Thank you very much for a delicious recipe. I made it tonight and my husband loved it. But instead of muffins I did a bread and it turned out great. Keep up a good work!
Thank you so much for sharing that with us!! I’ve never tried it as a bread and it’s awesome to know it works! How long did you bake the bread? Thanks Liliya!
Fantastic recipe and I just baked the lovely moist apple banana muffins with more butter and mashed banana. They smelled n tasted so good!
This is a sure keeper, thanks Natasha!
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you for sharing your great review!
Thanks Natalia for tasty muffins! I baked muffins for Easter table, my whole family really enjoyed those! Nice, simple and quick recipe!
I’m so happy you liked them! Thanks Mariana 🙂
Very good. I was very happy with this recipe.
Polina, thank you for the great review, I’m glad you like the recipe 😀.
Hello! How many grams is 1 cup of mashed bananas? When I tried a recipe that also used a cup measurement of bananas, I mashed mine too finely and ended up adding way too much banana! Thank you so much!
HI Jessica, to be honest, I’ve never tried weighing it so I can’t tell you for sure and I’m all out of bananas to weight it right now. I mash the banana and put it into a measuring cup to get 1 cup and haven’t had an issue with use too much. Maybe it was that specific recipe that was flawed? What kind of measuring cup do you have? Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
1 cup is usually 2 ripe mashed bananas
From someone who often dislikes baked goods with bananas: these are delicious!!!
Most banana-something sweets taste too much like banana, but these were truly great! I would even increase the amount of apples next time, which went perfectly with the banana.
I made them entirely with whole-wheat flour and just added a bit more milk, since whole-wheat flour absorbs more liquid than white, and they turned out beautifully! Be sure to include the nutmeg–it adds almost a “donut” flavor!
Chris, I’m glad you like them and great job on improvising :).
Tried this today and it turn out so yummy. Thanks everybody in the family loves it. Before mixing the apples I sprinkles them with cinnamon and instead of buttermilk i used yogurt.
I’m so happy your family loved it :). Thanks for sharing your substitutions!
Great recipes