Banana Muffins with Sour Cream
These Banana Muffins with Sour Cream is a banana muffin recipe delicious for breakfast, brunch, snacks, or holidays (makes 24 muffins). Soft Sour Cream Banana Muffins are so tender and moist, and we love to bake and freeze a batch for grab and go treats any time you like!
Do you love banana bread like I do? Instead of a baked loaf, I love to make these moist banana muffins packed with flavor thanks to the bananas, brown sugar, cinnamon and vanilla.
When I feel nostalgic in the kitchen (thinking about my mom or when my kids were little), I bake banana bread. The idea always starts with ripe bananas on the counter. But what I love about these muffins is you don’t have to sit around for an hour waiting for the bread (loaf) to finish baking. These muffins have all the flavor of banana bread – but bake in way less time.
Banana Muffins with Sour Cream
If mom were here today, she’d want a black cup of coffee (Folgers would do), and would want a small sweet “nibble” to go with it. I’m not sure why, but when I think of banana bread, I think of mom. Probably because it’s one of the first recipes she taught me how to bake.
Why we love this recipe
- I love the nostalgia feeling when these muffins are baking.
- They freeze well (bake, cool, and freeze).
- Delicious served on a breakfast board with your favorite jam.
- Uses up ripe bananas on the counter!
Gather these ingredients
- Butter
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Flour
- Baking soda + salt
- Mashed bananas: use the ripest bananas you can find!
- Sour cream
- Vanilla
- Pecans
- Ghirardelli Chocolate Caramel Flavored Chips (optional – you can use any chocolate chips)
How do you bake Banana Muffins with Sour Cream?
- Prepare pans for 24 muffins (either grease, or add muffin papers).
- In a large bowl, cream the butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and mix well.
- Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; combine with the butter mixture.
- Add the sour cream, bananas, vanilla and pecans; stir well. Gently stir in the chips.
- Scoop into prepared muffin cups and bake!
- Cool and serve!
Tips and substitutions:
- These muffins are made with Ghiradelli Chocolate Caramel Flavored Chips, but you can add whatever flavor of chocoalte chips.
- Make in seasonal muffin papers (pink for Valentine’s Day or red and green for Christmas), and they freeze well!
- I like to hold the muffin paper in my hand, and then add 1 large scoop. So much easier than trying to scoop it while in the muffin pan (it sticks and gets all messed up).
- Don’t over bake!
I’ll end with this great quote that I just read … when I think of banana bread recipes or muffin recipes that have been passed down.
“No one who cooks cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice of menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” –Laurie Colwin
Enjoy these muffins with this Baked Oats (without bananas), fruit salad, and these breakfast deviled eggs!
More muffin recipes to try:
- Easy Bran Muffins [Spend with Pennies]
- Chocolate Zucchini Muffins
- Banana Muffins with Hemp Hearts
Get the Recipe:
Banana Muffins with Sour Cream
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter, 1/2 cup, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 ½ cups flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 cup mashed bananas, about 3
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- ¾ cup pecans, chopped (optional)
- ¾ cup Ghirardelli Chocolate Caramel Flavored Chips, optional – or use favorite chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare pans for 24 muffins (either grease, or add muffin papers).
- In a large bowl, cream the butter with sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs and mix well.
- Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; combine with the butter mixture.
- Add the sour cream, bananas, vanilla and pecans; stir well. Gently stir in the chips.
- Scoop into prepared muffin cups and bake for 20 minutes.
- Cool for 10 minutes; serve!
Notes
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These are excellent and so easy to make! Definitely going into the rotation, and a great way to use up extra sour cream. Thank you!
GREAT‼️‼️
Say goodbye to “banana bread” these are the bomb! I will now always make this recipe! Even my hubby who doesn’t usually partake in “muffins” liked them. I made these in the mini form to share with my daughters soccer team. It’s a HIT! Thank you so much! HUGH YUM!
I’ll have to the mini version Andrea :)
These sound really good. I have not heard of the chocolate caramel flavored chips. I will have to look for them :)
Glad you share and have so many happy memories of your Mom.
I also love the quote very encouraging!!!!
xoxo
So good Sandy. I think of my mom often, especially when I’m cooking…even my grandmothers and others who have impacted me and how I choose to entertain and cook. I often think what it would be like if my mom were still here to enjoy this life with us.