Double Chocolate Banana Muffins

Recently, my almost 4 year old son Emrin suggested that we should make some banana muffins since we had some "brown" bananas sitting around. Hmmm, sure not a bad idea! but then he thought it would be great to make it chocolate banana since he loves both of them. He said it would be really yummy to have both in a muffin that he likes and since my 8 1/2 month old daughter loves chocolate cake too, i said why not?

I have been using a recipe that I saw on foodnetwork channel made by Giada de Laurentiis. tried the recipe once and we love it and since then it's my go to recipe for banana muffins! I didn't have the patience to look around for recipes online at that time so I just went on with the recipe that I have and just started adding a little bit of what I think I would want and need to make the muffins chocolate and to my son's liking. I got lucky this time and it turned out to be pretty good and moist as well! So here's the recipe:


 Double Chocolate Banana Muffins

3 c all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 c brown sugar
1 c granulated sugar
1 1/4 c vegetable oil
3 large eggs
1 c unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tsp vanilla extract
5-6 bananas, mashed
1 c semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 c mini chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line muffins tins with cupcake liners.
2.In a medium bowl, combine all dry ingredients and whisk together. Set aside.
3. Mash bananas.
4.In a large bowl, mix together brown sugar, white sugar, vegetable oil, vanilla extract, eggs. Add half of the dry ingredients. Add  bananas. Then add the rest of the dry ingredients, careful not to overmix. Fold in the chocolate chips.
5. Bake for 25 minutes.