Banana Chocolate Chip Granola Muffins

Granola topping and a teensy bit inside the batter adds great texture to this breakfast muffin recipe!

I'm not particularly fond of bananas by themselves, but I love bananas in bready type foods like bread (LOL) and muffins. I love banana pancakes. I also love banana pudding. But anyways, banana muffins are definitely an acceptable way for me to eat bananas and I had saved this recipe from one of my Secret Recipe Club assignment blogs to make at some point (not for reveal day). I loved the idea of using granola as a topping and I loved having chocolate in the muffins even more!

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What you need:
For the muffins:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 ripe bananas, mashed
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1/3 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cups chocolate chunk granola
• 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
• Turbinado sugar

For the granola topping:

• 2 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup brown sugar
• 1/8 tsp. cinnamon
• 2 1/2 Tbsp. unsalted butter, melted
• 1/2 cup granola

Directions:

1. For the muffins: whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl, then set aside.
2. In a separate medium bowl, mix together bananas, sugar, egg, and butter until combined.j
3. Slowly add banana mixture to flour mixture. Then stir in granola and chocolate chips.
4. In a muffin pan lined with paper cups, fill with batter and set aside.
5. For the topping: combine flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, melted butter, and granola.
6. Top the muffin batter with granola topping and a sprinkle of turbinado sugar.
7. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
8. Cool for about 5 minutes in the pan and then remove to a wire rack to finish cooling.

Recipe from Rainstorms and Love Notes

I haven't posted muffins since January and funny enough, those muffins also had coarse sugar on top. I loved these Sugar-Crusted Chocolate Chip Muffins. Y'all gotta try them! I really want to make these Loaded Butterfinger Banana Muffins from Lynsey Lous soon because peanut butter and banana are so wonderful together.

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