Small Batch Sour Cream Banana Muffin have such nice crowns! The high rising muffins, adapted from The Prepared Pantry, have an ingredient list that is a little different than most. There is a high proportion of bananas, not much sugar in comparison to flour, and the recipe calls for egg yolks instead of whole eggs.
Sour Cream Banana Muffin Texture
I was interested in seeing what the texture of banana bread with yolks only would be like, and am very pleased with the results. These were light, textured muffins with just the right sweetness. The topping helped in that department, so I wouldn’t leave it off.
Update: I DO leave the topping off off all the time now and just add walnuts or chocolate chips. The muffins are still great without the streusel.
If you have plenty of bananas and there are people who like banana bread in the house, I highly recommend that you use the original recipe from The Perfect Pantry.
However, if you'd like to scale it down, here's the recipe as I made it.
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Recipe
Small Batch Sour Cream Banana Muffins
Ingredients
- ¾ cup ripe mashed banana 170 grams
- 3 scant tablespoons sugar about 35 grams
- 1 tablespoon plus a teaspoon of vegetable oil 18 grams
- 1 large egg yolk
- 2 slightly generous tablespoons sour cream 38 grams
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract generous
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour 3.4 oz
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ⅛ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
Nut Topping:
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons flour
- Pinch salt omit if using salted butter
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons chopped nuts
- 2 teaspoons unsalted butter melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. and grease five muffins cups.
- Mix together the mashed banana, sugar, vegetable oil and egg yolk. Stir in the sour cream and vanilla.
- Mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. By hand, stir flour mixture into banana mixture.
- Scoop up batter and divide evenly among greased cups.
- Make topping. Mix together brown sugar, flour, salt, and cinnamon. Stir in nuts. Add melted butter and stir until you have moist crumbs. Sprinkle tops of muffins with crumbs (you will have leftovers).
- Bake on center rack at 400 degrees for 8 minutes.
- Reduce oven heat to 350 degrees F and bake for another 15 minutes or until a cake tester or toothpick inserted in the muffins comes out clean. My muffins didn’t really seem done, but the toothpick came out free of crumbs so I knew they were.
Joanne Drown
Receipe is perfect for our small family. The muffins are so moist with a nice banana flavor and we loved the nutty topping. A real keeper. We love love muffins.
Katrina
I said what I meant and meant what I said, I made the muffins yesterday. 40 minis. They are great, high domes, light and perfectly bananay. I added 1/3 cup mini chocolate chips to the batter and a few tablespoons to the streusel topping. (My kids will only eat them if there is chocolate chips, they even overlook the walnuts when there are chips. If I just did walnuts, they wouldn't touch them.
The Blue-Eyed Bakers
Well we're sold on the sour cream and banana title...but the nut topping also sounds just delicious. And love the thought that they're a bit lighter too...always have too many bananas around and love any excuse to bake them into something delish!
Lynn
You're so creative to scale down the recipe. That's something I never think to try. The muffins look craveable, especially with the streusel topping!
Katrina
Making these today. I have 5-6 ripe bananas. I think I'll make minis and freeze them for reunion-family next week. The Prepared Pantry also has lots of fun kitchen items and baking ingredients. I've bought from them before.
Cakelaw
These look fab - I like the streusel topping. Sour cream always gives such a nice texture to baked goods.
vanillasugar
ok these sound good!
Blond Duck
I can't wait to see what kind of pie you make! I never thought of sour cream banana muffins. They sound great!
dani
the prepared pantry has so many good ideas... lovely to see their recipes popping up in the blog world 🙂
Sue
Your first photo looks great!
I'm sure I'd like these muffins. I like the idea that a lot of the sweetness comes from the banana.
Anna
Katherine, you can always play around and try it, but what I liked about these muffins was their light texture. I think whole wheat flour would weigh them down.
Katherine
Do you think I can use all whole wheat flour instead?