These Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins are the best banana muffins ever! They are just a classic banana muffin with a dose of delicious Nutella Chocolate Spread to satisfy your taste buds. I love this recipe and can never get enough of it!
Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins are super moist banana muffins with sumptuous swirls of Nutella in every bite! Great for breakfast or just as a treat, these easy muffins taste as good as they look.
If you’re looking for other yummy muffin recipes, why not also try my Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Muffins and my Blueberry Crumb Muffins!
Why you’ll love these Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins
- Moist muffins. Made with yogurt and ripe bananas, these muffins are wonderfully moist.
- Loaded with Nutella. Each muffins is infused with this chocolate hazelnut spread.
- An easy muffin recipe. Simple to prep and made with kitchen staples, these gorgeous muffins go from pantry to table in around 30 mins.
Ingredients you’ll need
- Ripe bananas
- Flour
- Egg
- Baking soda
- Sugar
- Salt
- Vanilla Extract
- Yogurt
- Cinnamon Powder
- Nutella Spread
How to make these Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins
- Make your batter – In one bowl mix your wet ingredients, in another mix your wet ingredients. Fold everything together to obtain a smooth batter.
- Portion out your batter – In a muffin pan, scoop in your muffin batter then add a tsp of Nutella to the top of each muffin cup.
- Bake – In a preheated over, at 350F, bake the muffins for 20 mins.
- Allow to cool, serve and enjoy!
Recipe notes and tips
- Use a preheated oven.
- When mixing in the bananas, you can leave some clumps of bananas or mash it up all the way.
- For even portions, use an ice cream scoop to divide the batter into the muffin cups.
- Like the muffin cups with liners.
- To make swirls of Nutella on the muffins, swirl around the spread with a wooden skewer or toothpick.
- Don’t over mix your Nutella! You want to keep the spread near the top of the batter, if it mixing is too much the muffin wont fully cook.
- For extra special presentation, add a slice of banana to the top of each muffin before baking.
- Bake muffins until golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack before serving.
FAQ’s
Variations to these Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins
If you like nuts, you can add crushed walnuts to the banana muffin mixture or simply just throw it on top of the Nutella swirl. If you don’t want to use Nutella, you can use the same base mixture and add some chocolate chips instead.
You can also omit all the chocolate options and use this recipe as a regular banana muffin. I love adding at least some walnuts to mine when I make them without chocolate.
What are the best bananas to use?
The best bananas for these Nutella Swril Banana Muffins aren’t yellow, they are almost black. At the very least they are streaked with black/brown, with just the barest touch of green at the stem.
The darker the better, really! There’s no such thing as a too-ripe banana when you’re making these banana muffins!
How can I ripen bananas quickly?
There are plenty of suggestions on how to ripen bananas more quickly.
A tried and tested way is to ripen bananas in a paper bag. If you have more time, place bananas in a paper bag with an apple. Fold and secure closed. You can usually leave bananas like this for a full day.
Can I freeze these Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins?
Absolutely! After baking, allow the banana muffins to cool fully then freeze in zip lock bags and use as needed for breakfast of snack time and even kids lunch boxes!
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Nutella Swirl Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- 3 super ripe bananas
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 3/4 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup yogurt
- 1/2 tsp. cinnamon powder
- 1/2 cup Nutella spread
Instructions
- In a bowl mash up the bananas with a fork or potato masher. You can leave some clumps of bananas or mash it up all the way.
- Add in the sugar, vanilla extract and the egg and whisk very well. You will then add in the yogurt and the melted butter. Give it another good whisk to incorporate the ingredients well.
- In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients together; that being the flower, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder and a pinch of salt. Give it a stir and pour over the wet ingredient. Fold everything together to obtain nice and smooth batter mixture.
- Line some cupcake/muffin liners in a muffin pan. Using an ice-cream scoop, scoop in one scoop of the batter into each muffin cup. You can then add in a teaspoon of Nutella spread into each muffin cup and swirl around with a wooden skewer or toothpick.
- Place and bake in a 375 degree preheated oven for 20 minutes until the muffins are gold and brown on the top. Remove and let it cool before serving.
Notes
- Use a preheated oven.
- When mixing in the bananas, you can leave some clumps of bananas or mash it up all the way.
- For even portions, use an ice cream scoop to divide the batter into the muffin cups.
- Like the muffin cups with liners.
- To make swirls of Nutella on the muffins, swirl around the spread with a wooden skewer or toothpick.
- Don’t over mix your Nutella! You want to keep the spread near the top of the batter, if it mixing is too much the muffin wont fully cook.
- For extra special presentation, add a slice of banana to the top of each muffin before baking.
- Bake muffins until golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Allow to cool on a wire rack before serving.
Tried these last night. Super soft muffins and hit with the kids because of the chocolate. Love how they are not overly sweet. Definitely a winner! Thank you 🙂
Hi Parisa,
Glad to hear you enjoyed the muffins. I am about to make a new batch myself. They are yummy. Thanks for leaving a rating!
Hello
What type of flour all purpose or self raising
Also what type of yoghurt
Hi Frederika!
It’s all purpose flour and regular plain whole milk yogurt.
Hi,
What kind of Yogurt do you use?
Hi Belu!
I used plain whole milk yogurt.
Can I replace the flour with oat flour instead? If so what will the measurement be?
Hi Grace!
Yes you can and it’s equal measurements.