Banana Love: Sweet Top Banana Muffins

Sweet banana muffins

Time for another instalment of Banana Love.

There are a lot of banana muffin recipes out there. This is the one when you want something on the sweet side to enjoy with your afternoon cuppa. The sweet top is a streusel: brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, butter. Start mashing up those ripe bananas now and you could be indulging in these sweet delights within the hour. Gotta love bananas.

MA’s Sweet Top Banana Muffins

Muffin ingredients

Preheat oven to 375º F.

1 ½ cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp salt

3 large ripe bananas, mashed (about 1 cup)

¾ cup sugar

1 egg, lightly beaten

1/3 cup melted butter

1/3 cup brown sugar, packed

1 tbsp flour

1/8 tsp cinnamon

1 tbsp cold butter

Sprinkle on the sweet stuff

In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients.

In another bowl, mix together the bananas, sugar, egg and butter.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, mixing until just moistened.

Fill each muffin cup about ¾ full.

In a small bowl, combine brown sugar, flour and cinnamon.

Cut in butter to get a crumb consistency.

Sprinkle topping over the muffins.

Bake for about 20 minutes or until tester inserted into centre of muffin comes out clean.

Cool in pan for about 10 minutes, then remove to rack to continue cooling.

Makes 12 muffins.

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