Cream Cheese Banana Nut Muffins
We had friends coming over in the afternoon, and I wanted to make a light snack. I had three very ripe bananas on my counter, so I made this cream cheese banana nut muffin recipe from My Recipes. The muffins were tender and moist with a wonderful banana flavor. These cream cheese banana nut muffins were a big hit with the kids and disappeared quickly.
Cream Cheese Banana Nut Muffins
Ingredients:
- 1½ cups of flour
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter, softened
- 4 oz cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ¾ cup ripe bananas, well-mashed (about 2-3)
- ½ cup toasted pecans, chopped
- 2 tbsp raw or white sugar, sprinkled on top (optional)
How to Make Cream Cheese Banana Nut Muffins:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a muffin tin with cooking spray or liners.
Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and mix until very well combined.
Beat the butter and cream cheese together with a hand mixer until creamy and smooth.
Add the sugars and continue to beat with the hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract; mix well.
Gradually add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir with a rubber spatula, scraping the sides of the bowl, until just combined. Stir in the mashed banana and nuts.
Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin tin.
Sprinkle the tops with a bit of raw or white sugar, if desired.
Bake for 23-25 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then move them to a wire cooling rack to continue cooling.
Serve with ice-cold milk and butter, if desired. Enjoy.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups of flour
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ tsp salt
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter softened
- 4 oz cream cheese softened
- ½ cup white sugar
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ¾ cup ripe banana 2-3
- ½ cup toasted pecans chopped
- 2 tbsp raw or white sugar for sprinkling on top, (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a muffin tin with cooking spray.
- Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and mix until very well combined.
- Beat the butter and cream cheese together with a hand mixer until creamy and smooth.
- Add the sugars and continue beating with the hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract; mix well.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the banana mixture and stir with a rubber spatula, scraping the sides of the bowl, until just combined.
- Stir in the mashed banana and nuts.
- Spoon the batter evenly into the muffin tin.
- Sprinkle the tops with a bit of raw or white sugar, if desired.
- Bake for 23-25 minutes, or until a tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then move to a wire cooling rack to continue cooling.
- Serve with ice-cold milk and butter, if desired. Enjoy.
Perfect for any time of the day, esp. the breakfast!
I really like banana nut bread and assume these would be similar but better with the cream cheese in them – passing this on to the family baker.
A yummy muffin recipe that would be tasty any time of the day.
These look so good! How can I add this to my pinterest page?
Pat,
When you are on my site, click the recipe you would like to see then simply hover your mouse arrow over the photo you like and a big red P will appear. Click the P and it will help you save to Pinterest.
Pam
Now those do look good and I love bananas 🙂 Take care Diane
I’ve started freezing brown bananas exactly for when recipes like this come up in my feed! I know we would LOVE these.
I love muffins and these looks awesome Pam !! xo
oh, i do love it when i already have everything i need for a recipe! these sound yummy!
I like taking muffins in the morning as breakfast.I have know found a perfect snack to take together with a warm cup of milk everyday.
A hot cup of milk will be a great accompaniment with this delicious muffins.
Perfect banana nut flavor! Great texture and moistness too.
Lori,
I’m so glad you enjoyed this muffin recipe. Thanks for taking the time to let me know.
-Pam