Banana Bread Coffee Cake Muffins

Updated March 2020

In present day, we are stuck at home under Stay At Home orders and I’ve been using this time to read over cringey older posts and update them. Turns out, our days aren’t that much different. We still have oodles of time to kill and we’re passing the time with baking. The only differences are that no one naps anymore and Nolan is my baking buddy.

I wrote this recipe in the height of my sleep deprived, holy sh!t, what do I do with two kids, I think my daughter is on the Autism Spectrum and everything feels like it’s on fire phase of motherhood. Like I said, nothing much has changed! But, if you read the original recipe, it shows that my brain wasn’t in proper working order. Below you’ll find the updated recipe. One that has stuff like, oh, you know, all the necessary ingredients listed and in the proper quantities. Turns out “2 Greek Yogurt” is a little too open ended for a recipe. If you find yourself looking for a fun way to pass the time while social distancing, this recipe really is delicious and a good way to spend an afternoon.

I’ll keep this short and sweet because I don’t know about you, but I never read anything except the recipe when I read these kind of posts.  Bottom line- you need to make these banana bread coffee cake muffins. But, just in case you do like reading the back story…

Do you ever get to a point in the day where you have to keep moving because if you sit down you’re going to hit a wall and be completely useless the rest of the day?  Yeah, that’s me every day during Nolan’s nap.

One thing I do to try and keep myself busy is to bake. I try to bake something at least once a week with Isla.  Since she doesn’t nap, there is a solid 2+ hour window where were stuck at home while Nolan naps.  She likes to dump ingredients I’ve pre-measured into the mixer, but mostly she just likes to watch the mixer spin while she stands on a chair.  This way I feel a little less guilty about the screen time she gets, plus I end up with a delicious treat to go with my afternoon cup of coffee.

One last thing and we’ll get to the deliciousness.  Can we give it up for amazing neighbors?  I thought we had all the ingredients to make these banana bread coffee cake muffins, but of course I was missing the two tablespoons of yogurt.  We always have a giant Costco sized container of Greek yogurt, but it had gone bad. My sweet neighbor was at the grocery store when I texted and she picked some up for me, delivered and would only accept banana bread payment.  Praise hands emojis for having good neighbors, because they’re hard to come by.

Ingredients for Banana Bread Coffee Cake Muffins:

• 3 medium over ripe bananas
• 2 Tbsp brown sugar
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 cup butter, softened to room temperature
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt

• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 6 Tbsp butter, cold

Instructions for Banana Bread Coffee Cake Muffins:

1. Preheat the oven to 350℉. Grease muffin tin or use paper liners. I like these silicone liners too. They also work great in bento lunch boxes as dividers too!
2. In a small bowl, mash bananas, brown sugar, vanilla extract, and ground cinnamon.
3. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
4. Add eggs and beat until mixed.
5. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and mix well.
6. Slowly sift in flour, baking soda, and salt.
7. Stir until just combined. Add in yogurt and stir.
8. Divide evenly into muffin or bread tin.
9. Sprinkle crumb topping (see below) coating evenly over the muffin tops.  You could also layer some in the middle if you’re feeling crazy.
10. Bake for about 18-20 minutes depending on your oven.
11. Allow to cool before moving to a wire cooling rack.

1. Combine cinnamon, flour, and brown sugar. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter (I use my hands because I don’t have a pastry cutter and I think it works better), and mix until the topping looks like coarse crumbs.

I’m usually pretty bad at banana bread for some reason, but these turned out so well!  I think the Greek yogurt makes such a difference!  If you try them leave a comment and let me know how they went!

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