Name: 3-Ingredient Banana Chocolate Muffins
Prep time: 3 min
Cook time: 30 min
Ingredients: 3 Very ripe bananas; 2 Eggs; 1 box Chocolate cake mix; Chocolate chips ((optional))

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These three-ingredient banana chocolate muffins are such a great afternoon snack or a quick breakfast. A super easy way to use up those extra bananas at the end of the week!

This little baking experiment was such a winner. I had a few too many bananas leftover at the end of the week last week, a few little chocolate chips that I found in a bag in the back of my baking cabinet, and a box of chocolate cake mix that needed to be used up, and I knew what I needed to do. I decided it was time for another 3-ingredient recipe experiment, and this one did not disappoint. Not only were these muffins even more delicious than I expected them to, they also turned out to be quite beautiful, so they looked lovely sitting under my cake dome on the kitchen counter. I felt quite accomplished that day, even though these muffins took almost no effort. I thought this was definitely one I needed to share with you, so here we are today. Here’s how to make my easy three-ingredient banana chocolate muffins.

Ingredients Needed for the 3-Ingredient Chocolate Banana Muffins

You’ll need:

Ripe or over-ripe bananas
A box of chocolate cake mix (or here’s how to make your own chocolate cake mix)
Eggs
Chocolate chips (an optional fourth ingredient, but a worthwhile one if you happen to have them in the house anyway)

Baking recipes with bananas are always better if you use bananas that are very ripe because those are the sweetest and also the easiest to mash up. I prefer slightly under-ripe bananas for eating, but for baking, I’ll go for the almost-too-ripe bananas on the counter every time. We always seem to have a few left at the end of the week.

If you’d like to make this recipe egg-free it also works very well with a commercial egg substitute (prepared according to package instructions) or even a simple solution like chia eggs.

Method for Preparing the Easy Banana Muffins

Begin by mashing your bananas with a fork in a medium bowl, then transfer the mashed banana to a large mixing bowl. You can also mash your bananas directly in the mixing bowl if you like, but I have a specific bowl with a low and wide shape that I find works really well for this purpose, so I always use my banana mashing bowl. 🙂

To the large mixing bowl with the banana, add your box of chocolate cake mix as well as your eggs. I usually skip the electric stand mixer for recipes like this because they’re just so easy just as they are. It’s really not worth the extra effort to take out the electric mixer.

With a wooden spoon, stir together all of the ingredients until they come together into a smooth batter. Avoid overmixing the batter if you can help it.

Prepare a muffin tin with muffin papers. I find this makes about 10 very large muffins, but you can make them a bit smaller if you prefer a full dozen. Scoop the batter out equally into all the muffin papers, using a rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of the bowl to make sure you get all the batter.

Sprinkle each muffin top with a few chocolate chips before placing the muffin tin in the oven. Bake the muffins until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.

Allow the muffins to cool completely on a wire rack, then store them in an airtight container.

For more variations on these easy muffins, try these recipes:

Here’s the full printable recipe! Use it on your phone or tablet, or print it off to add to your recipe binder.

3-Ingredient Banana Chocolate Muffins

Prep Time

3 mins

Cook Time

30 mins

These three-ingredient banana chocolate muffins are such a great afternoon snack or a quick breakfast. A super easy way to use up those extra bananas at the end of the week!

Course: Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Banana Chocolate Muffins

Ingredients

3 Very ripe bananas
2 Eggs
1 box Chocolate cake mix
Chocolate chips (optional)

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350° and prepare a muffin tin with muffin papers. This recipe should make 10-12 muffins.
Mash the bananas with a fork in a medium bowl, then transfer the mashed banana to a large mixing bowl.
To the mixing bowl, add both eggs and the box of chocolate cake mix. Stir all the ingredients together until a smooth batter forms.
Scoop the batter out equally into your muffin papers, scraping the sides of the bowl down with a rubber spatula to make sure you get all the batter. Sprinkle each muffin top with a few chocolate chips, if desired.
Bake for about 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a muffin comes out clean.
Allow the muffins to cool completely on a wire cooling, then store them in an airtight container for up to a few days.

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Courtenay Hartford

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Courtenay Hartford is the author of creeklinehouse.com, a blog based on her adventures renovating a 120-year-old farmhouse in rural Ontario, Canada. On her blog, Courtenay shares interior design tips based on her own farmhouse and her work as founder and stylist of the interior photography firm Art & Spaces. She also writes about her farmhouse garden, plant-based recipes, family travel, and homekeeping best practices. Courtenay is the author of the book The Cleaning Ninja and has been featured in numerous magazines including Country Sampler Farmhouse Style, Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, Real Simple, and Our Homes.

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These three-ingredient banana chocolate muffins are such a great afternoon snack or a quick breakfast. A super easy way to use up those extra bananas at the end of the week!

Ingredients Needed for the 3-Ingredient Chocolate Banana Muffins

Method for Preparing the Easy Banana Muffins

These three-ingredient banana chocolate muffins are such a great afternoon snack or a quick breakfast. A super easy way to use up those extra bananas at the end of the week!

Courtenay Hartford

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