Nutella Swirled Banana Muffins

Nutella Swirled Banana Muffins are moist banana muffins with swirls of Nutella in every scrumptious bite!

Go Bananas for a Breakfast Muffin!

Moist banana muffins with lots of Nutella swirled throughout. The combo is incredible! These Nutella Swirled Banana Muffins make a sweet, delicious breakfast and would be pretty special to bake and take to friends or serve at a special event. Share the muffin love!

What to Bake with Nutella?

Last week, I did a much needed clean out of our pantry and found 5 jars of unopened Nutella. You would have thought I was stocking it for a crisis of some sort. And maybe I was…because it would be a crisis if we ran out of Nutella, wouldn’t it now?!

I bake with Nutella a lot (check out my favorite Nutella recipes), so every time it’s on sale or I might even suspect that we’re running low, I buy a jar. And now we have 5 full jars to enjoy! Oh my! It’s so rich and chocolatey and it adds the dreamiest flavor to baked goods.

The first thing I thought to bake with my surplus of Nutella was my Nutella Swirled Banana Bread recipe. It’s to die for! Ooh, or Nutella Swirled Pumpkin Cake Bars! But since it was early in the morning and since bread bakes for over an hour, I thought it would be great to try baking the recipe into muffins so we could eat them for breakfast.

Smells SO Good

As the muffins were baking, the boys kept asking, “what’s that yummy smell?”! The house smelled irresistible. That familiar smell of banana bread baking with a hint of hazelnut and chocolate filled the house and as soon as I pulled them from the oven, the boys came running to the kitchen.

They turned out so pretty and since I was 100% confident they would taste amazing, I made the boys wait a bit a longer so I could quickly photograph them to share the yumminess with y’all here on the blog. If you’re looking for more banana chocolate goodness, my chocolate chip banana muffins are so tasty!

Ingredients and Supplies

(see recipe card at the bottom of this post for measurements and details. To learn more about specific baking ingredients and how they function in baking recipes, reference my Complete Guide to Baking Ingredients)

Ingredients:

• Unsalted butter: adds richness, tenderness and flavor. Since it’s melted, it also makes mixing easier (no creaming step). It helps create that dense, moist muffin texture instead of a fluffy cake.
• Granulated sugar: provides sweetness, of course, but also helps with tenderness by breaking down the gluten structure.
• Large eggs: helps bind the ingredients together, adds structure, and helps the muffins rise a little as they bake.
• Pure vanilla extract: flavor enhancer that makes everything taste more rounded and cozy.
• All-purpose flour: provides structure.
• Baking soda: leavener that helps the bars rise slightly and keeps them from being too dense. Works especially well since there’s acid in pumpkin.
• Bananas (overripe): Check my ripeness guide! Overripe bananas are key because their starches have converted to sugar, which boosts both sweetness and softness of the bread. The riper the bananas, the sweeter the muffins will be!
• Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread): adds pockets of gooey chocolate-hazelnut. Also makes them look extra pretty when swirled.

Supplies:

• 12-cup muffin pan
• Muffin liners or nonstick cooking spray
• Large mixing bowl
• Whisk
• Wire cooling rack

How to Make Nutella Swirled Banana Muffins

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 12-cup muffin pan generously with non-stick cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, melt the butter and let cool slightly.
• Whisk in the sugar.
• Then whisk in the eggs and vanilla.

• Stir in the flour and baking soda.
• Fold in the mashed bananas until just combined.

• Fill each muffin cup halfway with some batter. Dollop 1 teaspoon of Nutella in a few spots on top of the batter in each muffin cup. Use the end of a chopstick or other small utensil to gently swirl the Nutella through the batter in each muffin cup. Scoop the remaining batter evenly among the muffins cups, filling each muffin cup almost full. Dollop 1 teaspoon of Nutella in a few spots on top of the batter in each muffin cup. Use the end of a chopstick or another small-ended utensil to swirl the Nutella through the top half of the muffin batter.
• Cut the remaining banana into 12 thin slices and place a slice in the middle of the swirled batter in each muffin cup.
• Bake muffins for 30-35 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let the muffins cool in the pan for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Storage

Store muffins in an airtight container on the counter for up to 3 days, or in the refrigerator for up to a week.

Enjoy leftover muffins at room temperature or reheat for 15-20 seconds in the microwave to warm throughout.

To freeze the muffins, let cool completely and then wrap each muffin tightly in plastic wrap before placing in a freeze-safe plastic bag or container to store in the freezer for up to 3 months. Thaw loosely covered at room temperature for a few hours before enjoying.

Pro tip: If you know you’ll be grabbing them for busy mornings or snacks, freeze individually so they’re easy to pull out one at a time.

If you make my Nutella Swirled Banana Muffins, be sure to snap a picture and share it with me on Instagram @thebakermama so I can see. If you’re on Facebook, be sure to join my Friends of The BakerMama group to connect and share all the fun and yummy recipes of mine that you make! 😍 I just love seeing how inspired and creative y’all get with the ideas I share. Enjoy!

xoxo,

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