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Chocolate Chip & Banana Muffins using Buttermilk as Egg Substitute
April 15th, 2009 Madhuram Posted in Food Blog Events, Muffins/Cupcakes | 
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I adapted this banana muffin recipe from the book Vegetarian (available in Barnes and Nobles as Bargain Priced). These muffins are easy to prepare, not overly sweet; perfect to start the morning or have it with coffee in the afternoon to avoid mid day snack attack. The original recipe had used 2 bananas and 2 eggs. To make it eggless I used 3 bananas and 1/4 cup buttermilk and the muffins turned out great.
My husband loved these banana muffins so much that he himself packed it in his lunch bag for snack. Usually when I bake something I place a small piece in a ziploc bag and keep it in his lunch bag and that will come back home intact. So I did not pack this muffin for him. But later only I noticed that he had packed it for himself. That’s like “2 thumbs up” for me!
Yield: 12 muffins
2 In a medium size bowl combine together the milk, butter and buttermilk.
3 In another large bowl sift together the flour, salt and baking powder.
4 Add the sugar, chocolate chips and nuts to the flour mixture and stir well.
5 Slowly stir in the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, but do not overdo it.
6 Fold in the mashed bananas.
7 Fill each muffin cup with 3 tablespoons of batter.
8 Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the muffin comes out clean.
2 The original recipe used chocolate chunks. Since I did not have it I went with semisweet chocolate chips. If you have chocolate chunks, chop 5 ounces of semi sweet chocolate into large chunks and use it instead of the chips.
3 The sweetness was perfect for us. Not very sweet like the ones you get in stores. If you have a very sweet tooth you would have to increase the quantity of sugar or chocolate chips.
4 You could substitute vegetable/canola oil instead of butter to make it healthier. I have tried it in couple of other recipes and it works. Since I wanted to finish the butter in the refrigerator I did not do this substitution.
5 You could also substitute whole wheat flour for the all purpose flour. I didn’t do it this time because the brand of wheat flour I’m using right now is not good in banana muffins. A couple of days ago I tried a banana muffin recipe with whole wheat flour and did not like the taste. I liked it when I made something similar a year ago, but that was a different brand of wheat flour, so I went with all purpose flour itself.
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April 15th, 2009 at 5:13 am
Excellent looking Muffins. I know they taste yum!
Anoop did very well y’day, I think he will stay for one more week. We went to Chapel Hill last weekend, his posters were visible on the campus and at Indian stores asking us to vote for him.
April 15th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Looks delicious!
April 15th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Muffins look yummy, I want to make banana muffins from a very long time, may be will make these coming weekend
April 15th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Muffins look perfect.Will make this when i have ripe bananas
April 15th, 2009 at 11:14 am
They look too good Madhu. I too hav planned to bake something for your event..
April 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Lovely muffins Madhu..
April 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
wow ! yummy muffin:)
April 15th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Perfect looking muffins Madhu..Yummy..
April 15th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
I’d love to have it for breakfast Madhu… Looks soo stunning!
Btw, have you been to Salem? I didnt know you could speak Tamil too..
April 15th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Hi Madhuram. Really a superb blog. You always try lot of baking stuffs that too without egg. Even I want to learn from you lot of things, coz I’m also vegetarian. I had been to the eggless cakes and cookies class last week. So I got some knowledge how to prepare cakes and cookies. Will try out some of the dishes from you. You can check my website also. I have some of the North Indian dishes and many south indian dishes. I had subscribed your blog.
Thanks Hema.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Hey Madhu
Delicious..2 thumbs up from me as well.
I just meant regular whole wheat flour found in the baking aisle as opposed to whole wheat atta at the Indian store.
Looks like you’ve got banana cake..oops muffins on your mind too
April 16th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Nice and simple recipe Madhu.:)
Sonu.
April 16th, 2009 at 6:47 am
yummy looking muffins. Wish I knew where to find muffin paper cups in Blore.
April 16th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Oh I forgot to tell you that this month and the next is an eggless month for us. So, we are posting some eggless recipes
I’ve tried this and they are really tasty. The pics are gorgeous!
April 16th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Lovely muffins. So tempting.
April 17th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Simple but yet delicious, muffins makes me hungry!
April 20th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
I made this today with a little twist:
Instead of 3 bananas i used 2 bananas and 2 avocadoes
Instead of low fat milk and butter milk – Soy milk vanilla flavor organic.
came out awesome! great way to make my kids eat avocadoes.
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hi Madhuram,
Can u clarify what is meant by folding of bananas.
regards
meeta
Meeta, folding in means nothing but adding it to the rest of the ingredients and mixing it.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Hello,
Great website! I am trying several recipes from here
I tried this recipe today but some parts of the muffins seemed uncooked. The part that was cooked tasted awesome though 
so i am even more curious to find why did the muffin cook partially?
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks for trying it out Purvi. Maybe the batter was overmixed or it must have required more baking time (another 2-4 minutes). I’m assuming that you cooled down the muffin before tasting it.
Thanks much!
Purvi
September 14th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Hey, I tried these today and they came out great! Used oil for butter and adding a little baking soda too. Thanx for the recipe
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Thank you very much for trying it Maya.