We absolutely love muffins but sometimes they feel like more of a treat than something you can have every day. But, I love baking muffins that we can enjoy for breakfast, a snack in the afternoon or as a dessert with custard.

Our Fruity Nutty Banana Muffins are our latest creation that really do tick every box and the whole family love them – plus, they use up our old ripe bananas too!

Can you vary this muffin recipe?

If you’d rather have nutty banana muffins without the fruit then just leave the fruit out and likewise, if you don’t want nut muffins just leave the nuts out. You could also add a few chocolate chips for easy chocolate chip banana muffins.

For this recipe we use pretty much any dried fruit we have to hand. This will usually be a cheap mixed dried fruit from the supermarket or we might use just raisins, cranberries or sultanas. You can use whatever you have to hand.

Whole wheat flour would give a denser, more banana bread quality to this banana muffin recipe. You can also use any kind of sugar you have to hand. We mainly use standard granulated sugar but brown sugar works well too.

We use any nuts we have to hand for this recipe. That will often be mixed chopped nuts but we also love to use chopped walnuts that go so well with the overripe bananas.

How well do these muffins keep?

The healthy banana nut muffins keep well in an airtight container for a few days and we often bulk bake them and freeze them to enjoy for breakfasts or a sweet treat whenever we feel like.

The banana flavor just intensifies after they’ve been frozen and there really is nothing quite like having delicious home made muffins whenever you want them.

If you’re looking for other recipes to use up old bananas, why not try our banana pancakes, banana cake or fruity banana loaf? You can find all our overripe banana recipes here.

What equipment do you need to make these fruit nut muffins?

You will no doubt have most of the equipment you need for this recipe at home already but, in case it helps, here are the things we use to bake these cakes at home:

These are pretty much staples for baking in any home kitchen and once you have them you won’t need to replace them often.

So here’s our Fruity Nutty Banana Muffins Recipe:

Makes: 16 muffins

Ingredients

100g butter
175g sugar
2 eggs
120g raisins/dried fruit
50g chopped nuts
3 bananas, preferably overripe
1 tbsp lemon juice
300g plain flour
2 tsps baking powder

Recipe

Preheat oven 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line muffin tins with muffin cases
Cream the butter and sugar before adding the rest of the ingredients and mixing well
Divide the mixture between the muffin cases
Bake for 25 minutes or until nicely risen and browned on the top

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