Peanut Butter Banana Muffins with Peanut Butter Streusel Topping
These Peanut butter banana muffins are soft and moist with a large crumb befitting a bakery-style muffin. The streusel is generously piled atop creating a peanut butter banana masterpiece!
6tablespoonscreamy peanut butterpreferably not Natural
Instructions
Pre-heat the oven to 350°. Line 15 muffin tins with liners or spray.
Make the Streusel:
In a large bowl whisk together flour, sugars and cinnamon. Add the peanut butter and mix with a fork until crumbles form.
The topping should hold together and “crumble” when squeezed in your hand. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until ready to use.
Make the Muffins:
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, soda, cinnamon, and salt; set aside.
In another medium bowl (if you have an immersion blender) or in the cup of a blender add the yogurt, bananas, peanut butter, and vanilla; process until smooth. Use an immersion blender if you have one because the clean up is much easier.
In a large bowl cream the sugar with the butter until light and fluffy using a hand mixer on medium speed. Add the eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add in the banana mixture all at once and incorporate with the hand mixer on medium speed.
Switch to a sturdy spatula and fold the dry ingredients into the wet, , scraping the bottom with each fold, until no large pockets of dry ingredients remain. Be careful not to over mix!
Fill each muffin tin almost all the way full using a large cookie scoop or the good, old-fashioned pour straight from the bowl method. Crumble a generous portion of the streusel topping onto each muffin, pressing down slightly. I like to squeeze it firmly in my hand first and then separate it slightly, keeping some large chunks, as I distribute it over the muffin’s surface.
Bake in preheated oven for 15-25 minutes, but I like to start checking after 10. My oven does what it wants and is unreliable at best, so I check early. That being said, I never open my oven door until the muffins have risen fully on top because if they are sunken in the middle, they aren’t done yet! I also bake the full pan of muffins first and let the other partial pan wait on the counter. No harm has ever come of the delay. In fact, the second batch will often bake up higher than the first contrary to popular belief.
Let cool 5 minutes in pans before removing to a wire rack to cool completely or be eaten.