These Best Ever Banana Nut Muffins are the BEST banana muffins you’ll ever make, with a delicious and sweet walnut topping! They’re crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside, and they turn out perfectly every single time! 
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If you’ve been a follower of The Busy Baker for any length of time you’ll already know how much I LOVE to bake muffins. They’re one of my favourite things to bake because they’re quick and easy to make with a delicious pay-off. I mean, who doesn’t love a muffin fresh out of the oven?? Especially one of these Best Ever Banana Nut Muffins!!?
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How is a muffin different than a cupcake?
Well, other than the obvious – the big mountain of frosting on top! – muffins are usually made with a simple batter containing vegetable oil, making them softer and less sturdy than a cupcake made from a traditional butter-based cake batter. Muffins should be light and fluffy, and replacing some of the sugar and oil with applesauce, for example, won’t change the outcome too much. You’ll still be left with a delicious fluffy muffin, minus some of the fat and calories! 
How to make the BEST Banana Nut Muffins:
- Don’t overmix the batter! This is my TOP TIP for the perfect fluffy muffins! If you’re left with muffins that are closer in texture to hockey pucks, it’s almost certainly because you mixed the batter too vigorously and for too long. Be gentle with the batter once you add the dry ingredients and stir only until the flour just barely disappears. Use a wooden spoon and mix by hand to avoid over-mixing. Making muffins with a stand mixer or a hand mixer almost ALWAYS ensures you’ll over-mix, so making them by hand is the way to go!!
- Bake quickly! The leavening agent in muffins is usually baking powder (sometimes with baking soda), which acts quickly as soon as the liquid and dry ingredients come together. To get fluffy muffins with the nice dome shape on top, get them in the oven as fast as you can after mixing.
- Add the sweet walnut topping! Mix the walnuts together with the brown sugar and butter for the perfect crunchy nut topping!
- Let them cool! No one likes a gummy muffin that’s underdone on the inside. Let the muffins cool until they’re almost room temperature before digging in, since they continue baking on the inside even after they’ve been removed from the oven.
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Best Ever Banana Nut Muffins
Recipe: Ingredients
For the muffins
- 3 large ripe bananas
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (optional)
- 3/4 cups chopped walnuts
For the topping
- 3/4 cups chopped walnuts
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
Recipe: Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners (or grease very well with butter or cooking spray if you prefer not to use paper liners).
- Mash the bananas in a large bowl and mix in the sugar and egg with a wooden spoon until well blended.
- Add the vegetable oil and mix well.
- Add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg, along with 3/4 cup of the chopped walnuts. Adding the walnuts with the dry ingredients helps prevent over-mixing.
- Mix everything together just until the flour disappears and the walnuts are distributed evenly throughout the batter.
- In a small bowl, combine the remaining 3/4 cup walnuts, brown sugar and melted butter and mix until the walnuts are coated.
- Spoon the muffin batter evenly into the 12 muffin cups and spoon a bit of the coated walnuts onto the top of each one, making sure the topping is well distributed onto the top of each muffin (not in one big clump or it might sink into the muffin as it bakes!).
- Bake for about 20-23 minutes, or until the muffins are golden brown on top and a toothpick inserted into the center of one of the muffins comes out clean.
- Let the muffins cool in their tins for a few minutes before removing them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Recipe: Notes
Recipe: Nutrition
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
i loved this recipe and it got rave reviews from the family. i used 2 eggs, browned butter rather than vegetable oil and went heavy on the pecans. i’ll be saving this and using it many times.
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Can I substitute whole wheat bread flour for the all purpose flour?
We’ve never tried that but we’d suggest only substituting half of the amount of flour with whole wheat.
This is my go to banana nut muffin recipe! They are delicious, thank you!
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I’m an amateur but a great baker, if I don’t say so myself. I’ve probable tried more than 100 muffin recipes and while many were “good” none were great. My friends think I’m to picky but I think I’m realistic. Great is extremely difficult to come buy hence hundreds of recipes. This banana nut muffin recipe is great! Moist, flavorful and just the right amount of sweet. I’m very excited to try your other recipes.
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Holy moly, these are DELICIOUS. Moist and sweet and with a little crunch. YUM.
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I had to adjust the recipe for salt. (We’re a low sodium household to begin with)
Being as such; these muffins were pretty much inedible as is. Way too much salt.
I reduced it to an eighth of a teaspoon It doesn’t need more than that. Having the full amount tasted like eating over salted popcorn to me. If you make this recipe and like the amount of salt that it originally has: keep it but I definitely had to reduce. With the reduced salt they were perfect.
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Very yummy!😋
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I’ve made these twice now and they’re ridiculously delicious. Here’s the thing: banana nut muffins are actually only my fifth favorite muffin flavor (yes I took the time to think about that and rank them in my head). These banana nut muffins are next level amazing. If every banana nut muffin tasted this good, this flavor would be my number 1 flavor rather than 5th. Everyone who has ripe bananas to use up should make this recipe as written!
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I only put in 2/3 of the required sugar, otherwise followed it exactly, and they still turned out great!
We sometimes adjust the sugar depending on how sweet our bananas are. Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback!
Excellent moist and delicious
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Absolutely the perfect fluffy muffin! Great recipe instructions too. I’ll be back to check out more of your recipes.
Thanks from this ‘ol foodie woman!
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Great recipe, they came out delicious and my family loved them.
I added an egg and since I only had jumbo muffin pan I had to bake, 30min.
Will definitely be making these again. Thank you.
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This article is truly mouthwatering! These Banana Nut Muffins are perfect—crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. With a sweet walnut topping, this is undoubtedly the best banana muffin recipe ever!
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Sooo delicious!!! I ran out of walnuts so I topped with chopped pecans. Otherwise I followed the exact recipe. Thank you sharing!
Pecans sound like a great substitute! Thanks for your feedback.
Husband loved them super easy and so tasty
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Amazing muffins! Everyone loved them.
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Great muffins, great recipe! My 14 year old foodie son suggested a little cinnamon sugar on top, but even without they’re sooooo good. I have printed this recipe out and will be using again and again!
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I tried these last night and they were simply gorgeous. I will definitely be making them again and again….I have 1 question. You have 3/4 chopped walnuts in both the batter mix and the topping. You say add 3/4 cup walnuts to mixture. Later you say “Add remaining walnuts”………Am I only supposed to have 1 X 3/4 of walnuts in the recipe. If so, how much of the 1 X 3/4 cup do I put in the batter mixture? Thanks.
We’re glad you enjoyed our recipe. As per the ingredient list, you need 3/4 cup walnuts for the batter and 3/4 cup walnuts for the topping.
DELICIOUS!!!
I made double batch…added dark chocolate squares, used tipo 00 flour instead of all purpose and avocado oil….
I can’t stop eating them ❤️
Thank you sooo much for sharing your recipe 😃
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Made these muffins with some leftover over-ripe bananas I had. I figured, why not? I’ll try it. It was the BEST decision I ever made. I was worried at first because they looked very dark. I thought they were gonna be dry and burnt tasting. I was wrong though, they were moist and delicious. They were also super easy to make! I’d highly recommend using this recipe if you ever have “bad” bananas and don’t want them to go to waste :).
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