Starbucks Banana & Walnut Muffin Copycat Recipe – deliciously easy jumbo banana and walnut muffins that are light, airy, moist, and bursting with banana and walnut flavor!
These easy banana nut muffins taste just like your favorites from Starbucks – and go from the pantry to the table in less than 30 minutes!
You will love these delicious perfect banana nut muffins – they are moist, sweet, a little crunchy, and to die for delicious.
I hope you love this banana nut muffin recipe as much as I do!
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If you’d like to skip over the tips and tricks to make these easy Starbucks copycat banana nut muffins, please scroll to the bottom of the page.
How To Get Puffy Muffin Tops
Perfect chewy, airy, and deliciously moist muffins are easy with this banana nut muffin recipe – but there are some tips and tricks to get perfectly tall muffin tops (like the muffins you buy at the bakery) every time at home:
Use Baking Powder
First off, pick a recipe with baking powder – not baking soda.
Baking powder gives muffins a nice lovely lift, whereas baking soda gives a good spread.
Use a double acting baking powder – double acting powder starts to work the second it touches liquid, helping your muffins rise before they are even in the pan.
Don’t Overmix
Overmixing muffins can make them tough and dense, not puffy, light, and fluffy.
Use Room Temperature Butter
Using room temperature butter makes muffins easier to mix – especially creaming the butter and sugar together – and helps reduce the chance for over-mixing.
Room temperature butter is my favorite to use in muffins for the perfect texture and lift.
Use a Stand Mixer
If you have one, use your stand mixer with a good scraping paddle.
Make Sure Everything Is Incorporated
Make sure all ingredients are evenly incorporated (no lumps and chunks of butter or flour) for the best lift.
Mix Slowly
Resist the urge to mix too fast – go slow and mix well, instead of overworking batter.
Pre-heat to Perfection
Oven temperature is one of the most important things to determine the lift of your muffins – it is the difference between light and airy muffins and short, dense muffins.
Make sure your oven is hot when you put muffins in (I will set my oven 25 degrees higher than I need it, then place the muffins in and set the temperature where I’d like it so the muffins can get a great blast of hot air without losing temperature when I put the muffins in.)
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Starbucks Banana & Walnut Muffin Copycat Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 overripe bananas
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup finely diced walnuts, to garnish
- 1/4 cup raw sugar, to garnish
Instructions
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and fill 2 muffin tins with liners.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
In a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar together.
Add in banana and mix well to combine.
Add eggs, and vanilla and beat well, scraping down the sides of the bowl once or twice to be sure everything is mixed well.
Mix in the dry ingredients and chopped (not diced) walnuts, just until incorporated.
Spoon the batter into the muffin tins to fill them about halfway.
Sprinkle the tops with finely diced walnuts and raw sugar.
Bake until a toothpick stuck in the muffins comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes.
Let cool for a few minutes before turning the muffins out.
Serve warm or at room temperature with lots of butter!
Nutrition Information
Yield
12Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 247Total Fat 6gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 5gCholesterol 32mgSodium 167mgCarbohydrates 45gFiber 2gSugar 24gProtein 5g
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Dawn
GIRL!! You did your thing on these muffins! They are SO good. Better than Starbucks; of course because they are fresh. Any idea why my tops weren’t glossy looking like your picture? The texture inside of the muffins were spot on. I have been looking for a recipe that produces a crumb like this! I can’t wait to search your other muffin recipes! Thank you!!
Courtney ODell
I brushed mine with some sugar water at the very end for the pictures to be shiny… does nothing for flavor, just makes them easier for me to photograph (lol)! I live in Colorado and baked goods can dry out pretty quick when I photograph them for the site (and it’s just me making these, so sometimes my pictures take a bit…) that’s just a silly thing I do so you can see the texture better.
Kristyn
I need to make these!! They look amazing! Banana muffins are one of my favorites & I love the added crunch from the nuts.
Allyson Zea
These look soooo tasty! Even better than Starbucks!
Anna
Best muffins ever! My whole family loved these!
lauren kelly
I am so excited to make these! These are my favorite!
Steph
These taste just like what you’d get at Starbucks! Great recipe, thanks!