These Double Chocolate Banana Muffins are lightened up and tremendous straightforward to make for a scrumptious snack or breakfast deal with! Bananas and chocolate are such a tasty taste mixture, and these muffins use each cocoa powder within the batter and mini chocolate chips on high for double the chocolate! I truly made these muffins twice in per week as a result of my household appreciated them a lot. These Double Chocolate Banana Muffins use much less sugar than conventional muffin recipes, so that you wish to be sure to use ripe bananas for added sweetness and taste. The sugar, chocolate chips, and ripe bananas make these muffins simply candy sufficient for a tasty deal with. Not solely are these muffins easy and scrumptious, however each is simply 129 energy or 4 WW Factors every (or 5 Factors if following the diabetic Weight Watchers plan). To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and monitor it within the WW app or web site, click on right here!

My five-year-old daughter likes to assist in the kitchen and these Double Chocolate Banana Muffins are straightforward sufficient to make that she do fairly a little bit of it by herself! I nonetheless assist with measurements and the oven, after all. I nearly at all times have the components to make these muffins readily available, so it’s a easy recipe to whip up for breakfast and snacks. They’re excellent to make as soon as and eat all week or you may at all times freeze some for the long run. I really like these for my morning meal alongside an egg or some fruit.

Recipe Notes

• Banana: Ensure you use ripe bananas on this recipe! In case your banana peels nonetheless have inexperienced on them, they aren’t ripe sufficient. If they’re totally yellow, it is best to most likely wait a couple of days. You need your bananas to be as candy as doable, so that you need the peels to have some brown on them! For reference, I take advantage of 2 ½ – 3 bananas to make one cup of mashed banana.
• Chocolate Chips: I like utilizing the mini chocolate chips on high of those as a result of it offers you extra protection over the tops of the muffins, however in case you solely have common sized chocolate chips readily available you may positively use these as a substitute.
• Different Sweeteners: I haven’t personally tried making these utilizing a zero-calorie sweetener instead of sugar, however I really feel assured that it will work out simply effective. Simply make sure that the sweetener you’re utilizing has a 1:1 substitution ratio with sugar in order that the sweetness degree isn’t off.
• Add-Ins: For deeper chocolate taste, you would at all times add ½ teaspoon of on the spot espresso powder to the muffin batter. It gained’t make the muffins style like espresso, it’ll simply improve the chocolate taste! I preserve espresso powder in my baking cupboard so as to add to baked items for this function! I’ve the Delallo model On the spot Espresso Powder and it really works nice.

To Freeze:

I really like how simply these Double Chocolate Banana Muffins come collectively, and so they’re nice to bake as soon as and eat all week! For those who don’t plan to eat all of them inside 4-5 days, you may freeze some by simply wrapping each in plastic wrap as soon as they’re utterly cool and placing all of them collectively in a Ziploc freezer bag. You may both defrost them to room temp or warmth them up within the microwave earlier than consuming. I really like having a freezer stuffed with muffin choices at my disposal at breakfast time!

Need extra tasty lightened up Muffin recipes?

In search of extra tasty kinds of lightened up muffin recipes? Try my Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins, Triple Berry Muffins, Banana Zucchini Muffins, Morning Glory Muffins, Strawberry Rhubarb Muffins, Carrot Muffins, Chocolate Raspberry Muffins, Apple Cinnamon Muffins, Banana Blueberry Muffins, Pumpkin Zucchini Muffins, and extra within the Muffins part of my recipe index!