Chocolate Banana Muffins are sweet, rich, moist, and deeply chocolatey, loaded with chocolate chips! Made with ingredients like Greek yogurt, bananas, coconut oil, and less sugar than typical bakery muffins, they still pack incredible flavor!
Looking for plain chocolate muffins? Try my bakery-style Chocolate Muffins next!
Chocolate Banana Muffins
I’m obsessed with big bakery-style chocolate muffins, but I’d consider them more dessert than breakfast. So I decided to create a bakery-style chocolate muffin with ingredients good enough to pass for breakfast and these fit the bill!
They’ve got Greek yogurt, bananas, coconut oil, dark chocolate, an egg, and a lot less sugar than the chocolate muffins you’d get at a bakery.
And even with the healthier ingredient subs, these chocolate banana muffins taste incredible! They’re rich, moist, deeply chocolatey, and loaded with chocolate in every single bite. These muffins are moist, a little gooey, and sure to satisfy your chocolate cravings!
Chocolate Banana Muffins Ingredients
- Special Dark® Cocoa Powder gives these Chocolate Banana Muffins a deep chocolate flavor. Use Dutch-process cocoa powder instead of natural unsweetened cocoa. Any brand works, but Hershey’s Special Dark is easy to find in most grocery stores.
- Honey vanilla Greek yogurt adds protein and flavor to these muffins. Avoid low-fat or non-Greek yogurt. Plain Greek yogurt is okay, but flavored yogurt is better. The creamier and thicker, the better the muffins.
- Chocolate chips. Use any kind: semi-sweet, milk, dark, or chopped chocolate. I prefer a mix of regular dark chocolate chips and mini semi-sweet chips.
- Overripe bananas. The riper the bananas, the sweeter they are, which makes the muffins taste better. Use bananas with speckled skins for baking.
- Coconut oil. Measure it melted, not solid. Let it cool before adding to the muffin mixture.
- Flour. Remove 1 tablespoon of flour and replace it with cornstarch for a lighter, cake-like texture, similar to bakery-style muffins.
How To Make Chocolate Banana Muffins
- Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Coat a muffin tin with cooking spray. Set out egg and yogurt to reach room temp. Melt coconut oil and cool. Ingredients at the same temperature mix better!
- Mash Bananas: Mash ripe bananas until smooth. Ensure you have 1 cup. Riper bananas make sweeter muffins!
- Dry Ingredients: Whisk together all the dry ingredients and chocolate chips.
- Wet Ingredients: Whisk together wet ingredients until smooth.
- Combine: Mix wet and dry ingredients until just combined. Don’t over-mix for fluffy muffins!
- Bake: Divide batter evenly in the muffin tin. Bake 18-23 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Evenly fill muffin cups for even baking!
- Cool: Cool muffins in the tin for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack. Use a knife to help get the muffins out!
Quick Tip
I don’t recommend muffin liners; the batter sticks to them. Grease the cavities well. A good muffin tin makes a big difference. My favorite tins always release muffins nicely.
Tips For Success
- Mash the bananas thoroughly to avoid chunks in the muffins. Use an electric hand mixer for quick mashing if you prefer.
- Don’t overmix. Overmixing makes muffins dense. Mix until just combined, then bake!
- Generously grease the muffin tin with nonstick spray and lightly dust it with flour or cocoa powder. This prevents the muffins from sticking and breaking apart.
- Cool muffins on a wire rack so air can flow around them. This keeps the bottoms from getting wet and sticky.
- Check Doneness: A toothpick (or fork) inserted into the center of the Chocolate Banana Muffins comes out clean or with a couple of moist (not wet) crumbs. The tops of the muffins should bounce back when lightly touched.
Quick Tip
How to mash bananas: Peel very ripe bananas and mash them in a bowl with a fork until smooth, or use an electric hand mixer for quicker mashing.
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Chocolate Banana Muffins
With Greek yogurt, bananas, coconut oil, and chocolate chips these Chocolate Banana Muffins deliver incredible flavor!
Equipment
- Muffin pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup all-purpose flour or whole-wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons Dutch-process cocoa powder see note 1
- 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips see note 2
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup mashed bananas extremely ripe
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt vanilla or plain, see note 3
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil cooled
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract optional
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar lightly packed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Generously coat a muffin pan with cooking spray, but don't use liners. Let eggs and yogurt reach room temperature. Melt coconut oil, measure, and set aside to cool. Ensure ingredients are at the same temperature to avoid clumping.
- The darker the banana skin, the sweeter the banana! Remove the skin and mash with a fork or electric mixer until it resembles thick applesauce. Measure to ensure you have one level cup.
- Add flour, cornstarch, baking soda, salt, cocoa powder, and both types of chocolate chips to a large bowl. Mix to combine. In another bowl, add egg, mashed bananas, Greek yogurt, coconut oil, vanilla extract, and brown sugar. Use a hand whisk to mix until completely smooth.
- Mix the wet and dry ingredients together with a wooden spoon until just combined. Be careful not to overmix.
- Divide batter evenly among the 12 muffin pan cavities. Bake for 18–23 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs.
- Cool in the muffin pan for 10 minutes, then use a table knife to gently loosen and remove the muffins. If they start to fall apart, wait another 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling. Enjoy!
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Recipe Notes
Note 1: For ultra-moist, delicious muffins, use Dutch-process cocoa powder. Regular cocoa powder makes them drier.
Note 2: Use any flavor chocolate chips you like; I typically use dark chocolate with semi-sweet mini chips.
Note 3: I recommend Honey Vanilla Greek yogurt (Greek Gods®) for these muffins. Avoid low-fat or non-Greek yogurt; the results aren't the same. The creamier and thicker the yogurt, the better the muffins taste.
Storage: Store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. When ready to serve, microwave for 15–20 seconds.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 278kcal | Carbohydrates: 41g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 174mg | Potassium: 305mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 37IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 92mg | Iron: 2mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These look decadent!! Going to make them today made a special trip to the grocery store for coconut oil. Hubby is crazy over dark chocolate so I’m sure they’ll be a hit .
I hope the are! Enjoy! 🙂
These are absolutely amazing!! I’ve made them a couple times and they don’t last over 24 hours in my home…too good! Thank you for the knowledge and love the idea of baking the bananas to ripen them more.
I’m so, so happy to hear that! 🙂 Thanks so much for your comment Jessica 🙂
What if I do not have corn starch?? I bought everything else and thought I had corn starch and I do not.. Ahh!
You’ll be fine without it 🙂 It makes them a little softer, but they will be great without.
These sound amazing! I am wondering, just idle curiosity, if you tried any Greek yogurt with fruit in it while making these. I have a feeling something with chunks of cherry would be stellar!
Thank you Kate! I actually haven’t, but that does sound delicious! You’ll have to let me know if you try it 🙂
Somebody brought me these last week & my kids loved them. I tasted & didn’t see why they liked it so much.
THEN I asked for the recipe so I could make it myself. I made this recipe exactly as written, using 100% whole wheat flour and WOW! These are decadent, filling…just Amazing!
I made 1 recipe and after tasting one I had to immediately make another batch so I could share with a friend!
I already added cocoa powder & Greek yogurt to my shopping list this week so I can make these again!
Next, I’m trying your blueberry muffins! So excited!!
Hi Farah! I am so thrilled these were such a huge hit that you and your family enjoyed! 🙂 Thank you! I hope you love the blueberry muffins next; those are my husband’s favorite!
Made these tonight and they are delicious! Another great recipe!
Thank you so much Tanya! 🙂 So glad you enjoyed these!
Wow my message lol i need to slow down with the typing hahaha I kept them in the oven 25 min and still look uncooked I also used wheat flour. I feel like mine dont taste good soo sadl i feel like i copied this recipe perfect too?
It sounds like your oven might be an issue if you cooked them for that long and they were still under-baked. Is your oven calibrated? And did you for sure set it to the right temperature?
I made these today and WOW they are deeeelicous! Chocolaty and moist! I subbed coconut oil for vegetable oil and didn’t have any brown sugar, so l used caster sugar instead. Still turned out awesome! Thanks Chelsea for sharing this recipe x
So glad to hear these were a hit and your substitutions worked out well 🙂 Thank you so much for the comment Leeysha! 🙂
Any idea what the nutritional info is? They seem like a healthier option if you have to have a chocolate muffin but probably still high calorie, fat, carbs?
Hi Amee! I don’t have nutrition stats on these yet. I’d recommend using My Fitness Pal for the stats 🙂 Enjoy!
Thanks so much. These look delicious!
OMG! I never comment on recipes but these were the best ever! I made it exactly as written but as I measuring out ingredients realized that all I had left was Noosa lemon yogurt! So I used that! And I was nervous but they were amazing! My husband can’t stop raving! And to have a muffin recipe so light and flavorful with white whole wheat flour is spectacular! I usually make muffins with half white whole wheat and half all purpose. THANK YOU for an incredible recipe!
Wow! What a compliment!! Thank you so much Alice! I’m thrilled these were a hit! 🙂