banana walnut muffins
soft banana walnut muffins with crumble topping
baked in June 2026
yield: 12 muffins
prep time: 15 minutes
cook time: 20 minutes
difficulty level: easy
image from Sally's Baking Addiction
Ingredients
Crumble Topping
- 1/2 cup (60g) all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup (50g) brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 4 Tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
Muffins
- 1 and 1/2 cups (188g) all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 and 1/2 cups (345g) mashed bananas (about 4 medium or 3 large ripe bananas)
- 6 Tablespoons (85g) unsalted butter, melted
- 2/3 cup (135g) packed light or dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons milk
- optional: 1 cup chopped walnuts, pecans, or chocolate chips
Directions
For the crumble topping:
- Combine flour, brown sugar, and ground cinnamon, then using a fork, mix in melted unsalted butter until crumbles form.
For the muffins:
- Preheat oven to 425°F. Spray a 12-count muffin pan with nonstick spray or use cupcake liners.
- Whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl or in the bowl of your stand mixer, mash the bananas.
- On medium speed, beat or whisk in the melted butter, brown sugar, egg, vanilla extract, and milk.
- Pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, then beat or whisk until combined.
- If adding nuts or chocolate chips, fold them in now. Batter will be thick.
- Spoon the batter into liners, filling them all the way to the top.
- Spoon crumble topping evenly on each, gently pressing it down into the surface so it sticks.
- Bake for 5 minutes at 425°F, then, keeping the muffins in the oven, reduce the oven temperature to 350°F.
- Bake for an additional 16–18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. The total time these muffins take in the oven is about 21–23 minutes, give or take. (For mini muffins, bake 12–14 total minutes at 350°F.)
- Allow the muffins to cool for 5 minutes in the muffin pan, then transfer to a wire cooling rack to continue cooling.
