Streuseled Banana Muffins

Muffins:
2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, soft
2/3 packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 cups plain yogurt (recommended: dannon)
2 medium bananas, very ripe, mashed with some small chunks

Streusel:
3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
1/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons granulated sugar
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut into 8 pieces

Preheat oven to 375. Line a 12-cup muffin tin with paper liners.

Make the streusel: Place streusel ingredients in your mixer with the paddle attachment and beat on medium until it looks like coarse crumbs. Transfer to a bowl.

Make the muffin batter: Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, amd salt in a medium bowl, set aside. Add butter and brown sugar to now-empty mixer bowl. Beat with paddle attachment on medium high until light and fluffy, 3 minutes. Scrape down the bowl and beat in eggs one at a time. Scrape down the bowl and beat in 1/3 of the flour mixture followed by half the yogurt, half of the remaining flour mixture, the rest of the yogurt, and finally the rest of the flour mixture. Scrape down the bowl and add the bananas, mixing on low until incorporated. Scoop batter into muffin tin, filling liners 3/4 full. You may have some extra batter. Place a tablespoon of streusel on top of each muffin and bake 25-35 minutes until a toothpick inserted intothe center of a middle position muffin comes out clean. Cool 5 minutes in pan, then remove and cool 5 more minites before serving.




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