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 a bit silly 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 375°F.
- First make the streusel. Melt 5 TBSP butter. Stir in chopped pecans, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt. Mixture will be wet. Set aside.
- For the muffins, melt ¾ cup butter (aka 12 TBSP or 170 grams or 6 oz) and allow to cool.
- In a medium bowl whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, mash bananas with a fork and add brown sugar, melted butter, 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 18-20 minutes.
- Allow muffins to cool for 5 minutes in the muffin pan then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling compltely.
- While the 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.
Questions & Reviews
My kids’ new favourite muffin!
Yay!!! So happy to hear it, Murissa!
Can I use bleached flour
Yes absolutely!
Made these the other day, and followed recipe
Muffins turned out GREAT!!
I did do the stuesel on top, and they were fluffy, full of banana flavor. Definitely a #1 recipe for us!! We LOVE banana loaves, but this is the best I’ve had that was homemade, from scratch, and easy to make.
I was worried the icing would be too sweet, so I plan on making another batch with the icing.. my mom is diabetic so less sugar is better, but the rest of us are excited to try some of the drizzle!!
Can I make these into jumbo muffins?
Hi Gail! I don’t own a jumbo muffin pan to test them personally first, but you can absolutely make them in one! I’ve seen this method a bunch for jumbo muffins so I would start there: Preheat oven to 425°F. Bake for 5 minutes at 425°F, then, without opening the oven door, reduce the oven temperature to 350°F and continue to bake for 25-30 minutes or until the tops are lightly golden brown and centers are set. Stick a toothpick in the center of a muffin to test for doneness. Cool for 10 minutes in muffin pan before removing. Let me know if you get a chance to experiment! I’ll try and find a cheap jumbo muffin pan to play around with soon!
Great banana nut muffins. really liked the streusel topping.
question on the 4th step where it references ‘…. combine streusel ingredients….” does this mean add some of the streusel in with the muffin batter?
So glad you enjoyed them Debbie! I accidentally wrote to mix together the streusel in two different steps for some reason (coffee take me away!!) so I’ll remove the second mention to better clarify. The streusel will just go on top. Thanks for pointing that out! xo
The muffins smell wonderful, but … can you please re-write the recipe to clarify steps 1 and 4? Step 1 seems like you add ALL the streusel ingredients including the butter. In step 4 it appears that you don’t? (But then where/when is the 5T butter added?) AND how long are they supposed to bake? The cook time says 19 minutes (too long) and there’s no indication in step 8 or 9 as to the length of time. I’m so confused! I read all the comments and am still scratching my head. You mentioned you re-wrote the recipe but I can’t see where the current website version is different than the one I printed out a month ago.
Hi Kathy! Terribly sorry for the redundancy of the streusel step. I removed the duplicate step from #4. Thank you so much for pointing that out! The 5 TBSP is part of the streusel (see step 1). Typically banana muffins are done when the internal temp is 200-205 degrees. My muffins were always done in 19 minutes each time after recalibrating my new oven (I do this in every new house because I find they’re all a tad off – some more drastically so) and I will whip up another batch of these for breakfast once my bananas ripen this week and update the post if it differs. For sure adjust if you find your oven runs hotter than normal and your baked goods are always ready faster than recipes call for. Hope this helps! xo
Thank you so much for the edited directions. I look forward to making them again and being more confident this time that I am following the directions.
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
I don’t understand the second streusel addition? I only see instructions to make the first streusel with the butter.
I can’t find applesauce listed in the recipe am I missing something?
Hi Darlene! I reworked the recipe to make it even better and changed the ingredients up a little. It used to have applesauce but a lot of readers don’t keep that on hand so I made some tweaks.
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.