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Banana chocolate-chip mini muffins

3
Points® value
Total Time
42 min
Prep
20 min
Cook
17 min
Serves
24
Difficulty
Moderate
These adorable two-bite treats are the perfect solution for a chocolate craving. Naturally sweet banana lets us use less sugar and keeps these muffins moist, and it's one of the best ways to use up a ripe banana. Oats add fibre and texture, and chocolate chips make them crowd-pleasers. The recipe also features yogurt, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and both all-purpose and whole-wheat flour for the perfect flavour and texture combination. You can freeze any extra muffins (though we doubt there will be many; feel free to scale up the ingredients and make an extra batch) for a couple of months, then thaw and reheat for 3 to 5 minutes.

Ingredients

Cooking spray

5 spray(s)

Plain lowfat yogurt

cup(s)

1% low-fat milk

cup(s), (1%)

Egg

1 large

Uncooked quick oats

½ cup(s)

Packed brown sugar

cup(s)

Banana

1 large, ripe, mashed

Vanilla extract

1½ tsp(s)

All-purpose flour

½ cup(s)

Whole wheat flour

cup(s)

Baking powder

1¼ tsp(s)

Baking soda

½ tsp(s)

Table salt

½ tsp(s)

Mini chocolate chips

½ cup(s), divided

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Spray 24-cup mini-muffin pan with nonstick spray.
  2. Whisk together yogurt, milk, and egg in large bowl. Add oats, brown sugar, banana, and vanilla, whisking to combine; let stand 5 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, whisk together all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl. Add flour mixture and all but 1 tablespoon chocolate chips to yogurt mixture, stirring until moistened.
  4. Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups; sprinkle evenly with reserved chocolate chips.
  5. Bake until golden brown on top and toothpick inserted into center of muffin comes out clean, 15–17 minutes. Let cool in pan on wire rack 5 minutes; run knife around inside of cups to loosen muffins from pan. Remove from pan and cool completely on rack. Store in airtight container at room temperature up to 2 days or freeze up to 3 months.
  6. Serving size: 1 muffin

Notes

SERVING SIZE (1 muffin) 72 Cal, 2 g Total Fat, 1 g Sat Fat, 110 mg Sod, 12 g Total Carb, 6 g Sugar, 5 g Added Sugar, 1 g Fib, 2 g Prot.