Caramelized Banana Muffins

1. Gather all the ingredients.
2. Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly spray muffin tin with non-stick cooking spray or line with cupcake liners.
3. Sift flour and baking powder and cut bananas into thin slices.
4. To make caramel, cook sugar and water over medium heat in a small saucepan. Gently tilt the pan off the heat to distribute color evenly as the sugar caramelizes.
5. When the mixture turns into a nice amber color, immediately add sliced bananas and coat with caramel and turn off the heat.
6. In the bowl of the electric mixer, beat the butter on medium-high speed until soft. Then add sugar and mix until creamy and fluffy.
7. Whisk the eggs in a bowl, stir into the batter and blend well.
8. Add half of the flour to the batter and mix well. Then stir in half of the milk. Add the rest of flour and mix, and finally stir in the rest of milk. Mix well to combine.
9. Add vanilla extract and fold in banana just until combined.
10. Spoon muffin batter into muffin tin ¾ full. If you like, top each muffin with ½ tsp. of Nutella and use a skewer or chopstick to swirl it into the batter.
11. Bake muffins at 350F for about 25 minutes, or until a skewer inserted in center comes out clean. Serve warm or let cool and store in an airtight container until ready to serve.

Recipe Notes: Recipe by Namiko Chen of Just One Cookbook. All images and content on this site are copyright protected. Please do not use my images without my permission. If you'd like to share this recipe on your site, please re-write the recipe and link to this post as the original source. Thank you.