Banana Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins – Life Made Simple (Video)

Pillowy soft and delicious, these muffins are a perfect balance of banana and dark chocolate. Once you give these a try, you won’t want to stop at just one!  Jumbo Banana Chocolate Chip muffins come from Life Made Simple. You can learn more about them here.

I used dark chocolate, as it is supposed to be healthier in a few ways, you can learn about here. We prefer it to milk chocolate, but of course, use whatever you like when you make these muffins.

For this recipe, I used our Large Muffin Pan, which is the same pan I used when making these Taco Cups. Here’s some info:

Large Muffin Pan

Jumbo Muffins & More

From supersized muffins to stuffed peppers, pot pies to miniature ice cream cakes, you can make a wide variety of sweet and savory favorites in our Large Muffin Pan. Each of the six wells are 4″ (10-cm) across and have a 1¼-cups (295-mL) capacity. Whether it’s breakfast on the go, time for dessert, or individual-sized dinners, this pan has you covered.

Made from high-quality, durable carbon steel that evenly cooks baked goods. The nonstick coating releases food easily and offers effortless cleanup and the blue enamel exterior makes it pretty.

Guarantee

  • Three-year guarantee

Product Details

  • Heat-safe to 450°F (230°C) in conventional and convection ovens
  • Freezer-safe
  • 14½” x 10″ (37 cm x 25 cm)
  • 4″ (10-cm) wells with 1¼-cups (295-mL) capacity
  • Hand wash
  • PFOA-free

Let’s jump right in!

Ingredients

  • 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 scoop Enrichables Pea Protein
  • 1 scoop Enrichables Super Veggie Protein
  • 3 medium bananas, mashed (about one cup)
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • ½ cup canola or vegetable oil
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 6-ounces Semisweet chocolate, such as Scharffen Berger, roughly chopped
  • Turbinado sugar, for sprinkling

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 350°F/175⁰C*.  You can use muffin liners, or brush each well lightly with canola oil.

Peel and mash bananas. Chop chocolate and set aside. I used a bar of dark chocolate, but you certainly could use semi-sweet, milk or dark chocolate chips. By chopping the chocolate bar, this gives you a variety of chunks and sizes throughout your muffins.

Whisk together flour, baking soda and salt, one scoop EACH super veggie protein and pea protein in small bowl. Set aside.

Combine sugar, bananas, egg, oil and vanilla in a separate bowl.  Add dry ingredients and chocolate, mixing just until combined, so as not to result in tough muffins.

Fill each well 2/3 of the way with muffin mixture.  I used my large scoop four times to fill each muffin tin.

Sprinkle turbinado sugar over each muffin, and bake for 28 minutes if using the Large Muffin Pan, until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.

Cool 5 minutes, then remove from pan. 

All done! If you have any left, you can freeze them for a couple of months, or store in an airtight container for up to 4 days.

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Banana Dark Chocolate Chip Muffins – Life Made Simple (Video)

Pillowy soft and delicious, these muffins are a perfect balance of banana and dark chocolate. Once you give these a try, you won’t want to stop at just one! 
5 from 2 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 28 minutes
Course Muffins
Cuisine American
Servings 6 muffins
Calories 608 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 scoop Enrichables Pea Protein
  • 1 scoop Enrichables Super Veggie Protein
  • 3 medium ripe bananas, mashed
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • ½ cup canola or vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 6 oz Semisweet chocolate, such as Scharffen Berger, roughly chopped
  • Turbinado sugar, for sprinkling

Instructions
 

  • Preheat your oven to 350°F/175⁰C*.  You can use jumbo muffin liners, or brush each well lightly with canola oil.
  • Peel and mash bananas. Chop chocolate and set aside. I used a bar of dark chocolate, but you certainly could use semi-sweet, milk or dark chocolate chips. By chopping the chocolate bar,this gives you a variety of chunks and sizes throughout your muffins.
  • Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, one scoop EACH super veggie protein and pea protein in small bowl. Set aside.
  • Combine sugar, bananas, egg, oil and vanilla in a separate bowl.  Add dry ingredients and chocolate, mixing just until combined, so as not to result in tough muffins.
  • Fill each well 2/3 of the way with muffin mixture.  I used my large scoop four times to fill each muffin tin.
  • Sprinkle turbinado sugar over each muffin, and bake for 28minutes if using the Large Muffin Pan, until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean.
  • Cool 5 minutes, then remove from pan. 

Notes

*The temperature of your oven may need to be adjusted, based on the type of muffin tin you are using.  The original recipe has a temperature set to 375⁰F/190⁰C.
For mini muffins, bake 14 to 16 minutes
For regular-sized muffins, bake 18 to 20 minutes
 

Nutrition Estimate

Calories: 608kcalCarbohydrates: 78gProtein: 7gFat: 31gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gMonounsaturated Fat: 15gTrans Fat: 0.1gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 391mgPotassium: 417mgFiber: 5gSugar: 43gVitamin A: 92IUVitamin C: 5mgCalcium: 30mgIron: 4mg

Nutritional Information Disclaimer:

The provided nutritional information is automatically calculated and should only be used as an approximation. It is offered as a courtesy and may not reflect exact values due to variations in ingredients, cooking methods, and other factors. We recommend consulting with a qualified healthcare professional or nutritionist for precise dietary information.

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Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chunk Muffins AKA my New Favorite Food Blog, Table For Two

As today is National Pumpkin Spice Day, I wanted to share a new recipe with you That fits this special day.

Pumpkin plus dark chocolate? Yes, please! I found this recipe on Julie Chiou’s Table for Two blog and, let me tell you, this recipe does not disappoint! 

Julie recommends changing it up, so I took that as my permission to do so. I was able to add some Pea and Veggie proteins, changed the semi-sweet chocolate to dark chocolate and even sprinkled some coarse sugar on top. Oh, as I was using my large muffin pan, I doubled the recipe. Delicious!!

I will say that this was honestly one of the easiest recipes to throw together, Julie’s instructions were very easy to follow and I would definitely make these again. If the rest of her blog is anything like this, I will be back there often. Can you tell how much I love this recipe??

Let’s jump right in!

What you’ll need:

  • 1 ⅔ cup all purpose flour
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon baking powder
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup plain pumpkin puree
  • ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
  • 6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate, roughly chopped

Preheat your oven to 350°. You can use muffin liners, but since I was using my large muffin pan, I simply brushed each well lightly with canola oil.

In one bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder and salt. I also whisked in scoop of super veggie protein and of pea protein. Leave me when I say, no one can taste either one! Plus they have the added benefit of getting extra protein and veggies in their muffins. Shhhh!!!🤫


Mixed together eggs, pumpkin and melted butter.


Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, mix until combined. Please do not over mix, this will result in a tough muffin (I have learned this the hard way).


I used a bar of dark chocolate, but you certainly could use semi-sweet chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips. By chopping the chocolate bar, this gives you a variety of chunks and sizes throughout your muffins.


Fold your chocolate into the muffins using a scraper.


I used my large scoop four times to fill each muffin tin.

Then, I sprinkled coarse sugar over each muffin.


I baked for 28 minutes, until my cake tester insert it in the middle came out clean. Again, this was the large muffin pan, if you are doing a regular sized muffin pan, adjust the time accordingly, 20-25 minutes.


Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes, and then remove onto a cooling rack to allow to cool completely. Remove from pan once cooled.


All done! If you have any left, you can freeze them for a couple of months, or store in an airtight container for up to 4 days. They are so good, I need them yesterday and they taste even better today! I am seriously looking forward to checking out more recipes from Julie’s blog, and I hope you will, too.
My recipe video is at the bottom of this post, along with link to Julie’s blog and this wonderful recipe. 

Listed below are the products I used for this recipe. Please feel free to go to my website to purchase any or all of them here (please note I make commission if you do): https://www.pamperedchef.com/pws/marianielsen

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Air Fryer Beignets!

So, I never realized that a biscuit could taste even better when it becomes an Air Fryer Beignet! This is another wonderful Pampered Chef recipe, it was so easy to make, and such a delicious treat, even the next day.


Let’s jump right in!


What you’ll need:

  • 1/4 cup (60 ml) sugar
  • 2 tsp (10ml) cinnamon
  • 1 pkg (16.3 oz./462 g) flaky biscuit dough (8 biscuits)
  • Flour for dusting
  • 1 cup semi-sweet or dark chocolate morsels, divided
  • Oil for spraying
  • 1 tbsp butter, melted
  • Optional: chocolate sauce


First, you’ll want to grab a package of refrigerated flaky biscuit dough which contains eight biscuits. Open the package, then peel and divide each piece of biscuit and half to create 16 biscuits total.


Dust a rolling pin with flour and roll out each biscuit to a 4-in (10-cm) round.

Next, dip the hand pie and pocket maker in flower and place the dough on top fill one side of the dough with 1 tablespoon (15 ml) of chocolate morsels (I used dark chocolate), pressed to seal, then remove from the pocket maker. Repeat for each piece of dough.


Spray the trays of the deluxe air fryer with oil. Divide the beignets evenly onto both trays.

Place the trays on the bottom to racks Cook on BAKE for 12 minutes, until golden brown, rotating the trays halfway through.


While they are cooking, combine 1/4 cup (60ml) sugar with 2 teaspoons (10 ml) cinnamon and a shallow bowl.


When they are cooked fully, brush the top of each beignet with melted butter and dip the buttered side into the cinnamon-sugar mixture.


Serve the beignets warm and drizzle chocolate sauce, if you’d like. I actually took about a quarter cup of dark chocolate morsels and melted them on HIGH in the microwave for 30 seconds, then whisked. I put it in for another 10 seconds, whisked again and that is what I used to drizzle over the beignets.

We found them to be delicious the next morning as well. I hope you enjoy these as much as we did! My recipe video is at the bottom of this post.

Listed below are the products I used for this recipe. Please feel free to go to my website to purchase any or all of them here (please note I make commission if you do): https://www.pamperedchef.com/pws/marianielsen

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