Pumpkin Banana Bread Muffins

These Pumpkin Banana Bread Muffins are the perfect cross between cozy banana bread with a festive pumpkin spice flair. They’re made a little lighter with some more nourishing swaps compared to traditional muffins, with healthy ingredients like bananas, pumpkin, avocado oil, and whole wheat flour.

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Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe:

These pumpkin banana bread muffins are perfect if you have overripe bananas that need to get used up, but also are craving cozy, fall, pumpkin vibes.

• Deliciously Cozy – between the pumpkin, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, vanilla, and of course some chocolate chips, these muffins are deliciously cozy.
• Whole Grain – I use 100% white whole wheat flour in these muffins to make them 100% whole grain.
• Lighter and Lower Sugar – while these muffins do contain oil and sugar, they’re lighter and lower in sugar than store-bought or traditional homemade muffins.
• Family-Friendly – between my own kids and other friends’ kids that have tried these muffins, I keep hearing that even the pickiest eaters enjoy every last crumb!

Ingredient Notes & Substitutions:

For a full ingredient list with quantities, please check out the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

• Bananas – depending on the size of your bananas, you’ll need 2-3 overripe bananas. I list the measurement in the recipe for 1 cup mashed bananas to help you make these muffins more accurately, because bananas can vary so much in size!
• Pumpkin – this vitamin A-rich fruit is perfect for fall! Be sure to use 100% pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling (which already contains sugar, spices, and other ingredients not needed).
• White Whole Wheat Flour – traditionally whole wheat flour uses the red grain, but there are white grains, which is what makes white whole wheat flour. I find that in baked goods, white whole wheat flour tends to yield a lighter, fluffier result.
• Brown Sugar – to help keep these muffins as moist and flavorful as possible, I use all light brown sugar. Be sure to pack and level the measuring cup for accurate measuring!
• Avocado Oil – I love to use avocado oil when baking for a neutral tasting, heart healthy oil. You can also use extra virgin olive oil, canola oil, or whatever oil works for you.
• Eggs – two large eggs
• Spices – these muffins are heavy on the flavor to encapsulate both banana bread vibes and pumpkin muffin vibes. You need both cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice, as well as vanilla bean paste or extract and salt to further enhance the flavor.
• Leavening Agents – baking soda and baking powder both help create the fluffy texture of these muffins.
• Chocolate Chips – I suppose these chocolate chips could be optional, but my children strongly disagree. ; ) They really do complement the other flavors perfectly, though!

How to Make Pumpkin Banana Bread Muffins

For complete instructions, please check out the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

To a large bowl, add the wet ingredients and stir until combined. Then add in the dry ingredients and stir again, just until combined.

Gently fold in the chocolate chips, then scoop the batter into a lined muffin tin. Bake, and then let rest a few minutes until they’re not too hot to handle!

Tips and Variations

• Don’t overmix the batter. This can make the muffins tougher and not as fluffy.
• Accurately measure your flour by using a spoon to scoop the flour into the measuring cup, then leveling it off. If you scoop the measuring cup directly into the flour, it often packs more flour in, yielding a dryer muffin.
• Flour Substitutes: you can use a cup-for-cup gluten-free flour and all-purpose flour and achieve similar results. This recipe has not been tested with almond flour, and will not work with coconut flour.
• No Added Sugar: use a brown sugar substitute and chocolate chips without added sugar (or skip entirely).
• Swap in Cinnamon Chips – cinnamon chips make a delicious alternative to chocolate chips.
• Make them Mini – use a mini muffin pan and bake for less time (15-18 minutes).

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