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Chunky Monkey Muffins

July 29, 2016 / Breakfast, Muffins

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Chunky monkey muffins are the best way to use up those bananas on your counter. Filled with peanut butter, bananas, and chocolate, the whole family will love them!

Chunky monkey muffins are great for breakfast, snacks, or dessert. Make a batch today!

For some reason, I keep bringing my kids with me to the grocery store. I start out with wonderful intentions, hoping that by letting them choose foods, they will embrace eating more vegetables and be interested in joining me in the kitchen. By the end of it we’re all tired, bickering, and just trying to get out of the store alive.

Letting the kids choose means we tend to end up with a lot of fruit. That then gets ignored — usually in favor of applesauce pouches. The biggest offenders in the fruit pile are bananas. Because you can’t refrigerate them, bananas go bad no matter what your fruit craving is calling for that particular day.

This wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t allergic to bananas, but the only way around it is to toss the bananas into the freezer until the kids are ready for banana bread. Or until I remember we have frozen bananas when trying to clean the freezer.

Chunky monkey muffins are a delicious morning treat. Filled with peanut butter, chocolate, and bananas, the whole family will love them!

While my kids like banana bread, the fact you have to slice it makes it less likely for them to eat. Muffins, on the other hand, are completely grab-and-go options. They also happen to be one of our favorite things to eat any time of day, whether it’s blueberry streusel muffins at breakfast or strawberry cheesecake muffins after dinner.

The inspiration for these muffins comes from the ice cream of the same name. Now, Chunky Monkey ice cream has walnuts instead of peanut butter, but kids and peanut butter go together like, well… peanut butter, bananas, and chocolate.

Chunky monkey muffins bring all your favorite ingredients together. Chocolate, bananas, peanut butter - yum!

I normally don’t put any sort of glaze on my muffins, but I couldn’t resist putting a peanut butter drizzle on top of these. You can skip it if you like (especially if you’re eating these for breakfast) but my kids just love them this way!

Try these Chunky Monkey Muffins the next time you have some forgotten bananas!

Chunky monkey muffins are great for breakfast, snacks, or dessert. Make a batch today!

Chunky Monkey Muffins

Yield: 12
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 18 minutes
Total Time: 28 minutes

Chunky monkey muffins are the best way to use up those bananas on your counter. Filled with peanut butter, bananas, and chocolate, the whole family will love them!

Ingredients

  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 medium bananas, mashed
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup milk chocolate morsels
  • 1/2 cup peanut butter chips

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 400°F and lightly coat a muffin tin with baking spray, or line with paper liners.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
  3. In another bowl, cream together peanut butter and sugar. Beat in eggs, milk, bananas, and vanilla extract.
  4. Pour the wet ingredients into the flour mixture and stir until mixed, but do not overmix. It should be slightly lumpy and somewhat thick. Fold in milk chocolate chips.
  5. Divide the batter among the muffin cups, filling them to 3/4 capacity for tall, domed muffins.
  6. Bake for 18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center is clean and muffins are golden brown. Let cool slightly.
  7. Melt peanut butter chips in the microwave, using 20-second intervals, until completely melted and stirred smooth.
  8. Using a spoon, drizzle melted chips over the tops of the muffins. Let harden and serve. 

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Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 324Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 36mgSodium: 272mgCarbohydrates: 44gFiber: 3gSugar: 21gProtein: 9g

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  1. Jennifer says

    July 31, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    In this recipe it says 1/2 cup granulated sugar but in the direction it says brown sugar. Which sugar do I use?

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    • Megan says

      August 1, 2016 at 8:40 am

      @Jennifer Ah, sorry! That was an error. It’s granulated sugar! I’ll fix the directions.

      Reply
  2. Anne says

    August 3, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Wow this looks so amazing!! I love the playful name!

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  3. Dayna says

    August 8, 2016 at 2:26 pm

    It looks like you left out a step after melting the peanut butter chips. I imagine that’s what you used for the drizzle?

    Also, have you heard of the Division of Responsibility in feeding? It totally takes away the worry about kids eating (or not eating) vegetables. http://ellynsatterinstitute.org/dor/divisionofresponsibilityinfeeding.php is a good place to start. 🙂

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    • Megan says

      August 8, 2016 at 3:08 pm

      @Dayna Ah, thanks for noticing the error! It’s fixed.
      I haven’t seen that particular method but it’s basically what we try to do. Overall my kids eat really well so I probably shouldn’t complain about a few forgotten bananas 😉

      Reply

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