Step up your muffin game with these fluffy Banana Nut Muffins topped with a buttery pecan streusel and cinnamon vanilla glaze.
When the bananas on my counter start stepping up their freckle game and go from edible to super sweet, I make banana bread.
It’s just how things go around here.
That is, until my loaf pan up and runs away on me, the chocolate chips were all eaten the week prior, and WHERE THE EFF DID THE WALNUTS GO!?
All issues aside, I had bananas.
I had pecans.
I had a muffin pan.
Why on earth am I being so dramatic?The world may never know.
Editing photos after giving the entire batch (minus two for my face) to Paul and his Marine buddies was super stupid of me.
I’m holding back from licking my computer screen right now. More please!
Banana Nut Muffins with Pecan Streusel
This recipe makes a dozen sweet and nutty streusel topped muffins, perfect for faceplanting!
They’re for sure more of a dessert muffin than a breakfast muffin but are also quite lovely as a sweet treat for brunches or showers.
The cinnamon vanilla glaze is totally optional but oh so delicious. It has a total glazed donut taste to it and I’m OBSESSED!
Banana Nut Muffins with Pecan Streusel
Ingredients
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour (240 grams)
- 4 overripe bananas
- 1.5 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- ¾ cup brown sugar (150 grams)
- ¾ cup unsalted butter (12 TBSP or 170 grams or 6 oz)
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- ½ cup finely chopped pecans
PECAN STREUSEL
- 5 TBSP unsalted butter
- ¾ cup finely chopped pecans
- ⅓ cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ⅛ tsp salt
OPTIONAL CINNAMON VANILLA GLAZE
- ⅓ cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 TBSP milk
- ¼-½ tsp pure vanilla extract or to taste
- ⅛ tsp cinnamon or to taste
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees F.
- First make your streusel. Melt 5 TBSP butter. Stir in chopped pecans, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Mixture will be wet. Set aside.
- Melt ¾ cup butter (aka 12 TBSP or 170 grams or 6 oz) and allow to cool.
- Combine flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside. In a small bowl, combine streusal ingredients minus the butter and set aside.
- In a large bowl, mash bananas with a fork and add brown sugar, melted butter, apple sauce, vanilla, and eggs and whisk them all together.
- Next slowly add in the flour/baking soda/salt mixture and whisk until just incorporated.
- Fold in the pecans and pour into a 12-cup muffin tin lightly spritzed with coconut or olive oil, filling each up just a smidge over halfway.
- Top each muffin with a few yummy crumbles of streusel and bake.
- Allow muffins to cool for 5 minutes in the muffin pan then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling compltely.
- While your muffins cool, whisk together the optional glaze. Simply combine powdered sugar with milk and whisk until desired consistency is reached. Flavor with vanilla and cinnamon, to taste, and drizzle over cooled muffins. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
I also made a batch with half white whole-wheat flour and half all-purpose and they were equally yummy! Recipe adapted from Tyler Florence.
So… How were they!?
I want more. I need more. Oh baby. Oh baby.
If you can name that movie I’ll love you forever.
I don’t have any applesauce, what do you recommend replacing it with?
Hi Keri! The applesauce is there to replace some of the butter, so you can simply increase the amount of butter (melted and cooled) or add oil in it’s place. I’ve also heard of people adding yogurt or sour cream in place of applesauce in recipes. Since I haven’t had the chance to try any of these swaps yet, I can’t for certain vouch for them without testing. Hope this helps! xoxo
These look fabulous Jenn!
I just made these, and they were awesome! Thanks for posting! 🙂
Thanks Ashley! So glad you liked them! <3
I’m totally double the streusel and the fun. These look delicious.
yum – that streusel toppin – those tall muffins – oomph-lala!
Best. Movie. Ever. Sometimes I throw quotes from it into normal conversation without verifying that everyone there also has it memorized… yeah.
I’ve got some bananas with lots of freckles on them… I think it’s time!
Yes, yes, yes!! Perfect thing to do with dewoozicated bananas! Plus, pecans>walnuts, but that’s just me. Also, BIG mistake in giving them away. You freeze those babies, and pop them out, and warm it up in the microwave when no one who can tell on you is there and scarf them down. Now, I’m a-wishing I had one for breakfast.
These look amazing!
Yessss! Do it! Be naughty and double the streusel =)
I do the same thing with overly ripe bananas! Your version looks super awesome. Yum!
Oh. My. Goodness. I am SOOO making these…like…NOW.
mmmmm yes! this looks so good! xo jillian – cornflake dreams
Have you found your loaf tin yet? These look so dreamy, my bananas are *almost* ready for some baking action. Muffins make it easier to give some away and save some for yourself without it being obvious 😉
I saw the streusel on instagram and salivated and now…yep. Repeat.
Is it criminal that I once made a crumble where there was like 1 apple and 50 serves of streusel topping? Nope.