Your next breakfast upgrade
Banana chocolate chip Kodiak muffins are your next breakfast game changer. Banana and chocolate chips already are a great muffin act, but the protein and fiber added from the Kodiak mix keeps you feeling full and healthy! If you already love banana chocolate chip muffins, I offer you this wholesome upgrade.
My brunch obsessions are probably coming off a little strong lately, but this banana chocolate chip Kodiak muffin bouquet just makes such a lovely arrangement for a brunch buffet. I divided the batter between a 24-mini-muffin tin and a regular 12-muffin tin to get the different sizes.
What is Kodiak Mix?
Kodiak mix–specifically the Kodiak Flapjack & Waffle Mix–is pancake/waffle mix made with whole wheat flour and dairy-based protein powders. It adds extra protein and fiber to anything you want to make with pancake mix, and you can make a lot with pancake mix. All pancake mixes have salt and leavening agents in them like baking soda and baking powder, so you don’t need to add them in when you’re using pancake mix to make muffins.
Ingredients for Banana chocolate Chip Kodiak Muffins
- Kodiak flour – I get it in bulk at CostCo. It’s about a 5 lb box, but you can get it at most grocery stores (except Trader Joe’s, though they have their own brand of high-fiber, high-protein flour mix)
- 3 Ripe bananas – I consider a ripe banana one that is deep golden yellow and has a healthy covering of brown freckles. Anywhere from here to completely brown is perfect.
- Butter and vegetable oil (or coconut oil)
- Sugar and brown sugar
- Cinnamon and vanilla extract
- Eggs
- Mini or regular semi-sweet chocolate chips
How to make banana chocolate chip Kodiak muffins
Make the muffins in this order, and I promise you, you’ll only need one bowl.
Melt butter in a large bowl in the microwave. Add to it the vegetable oil, and then the bananas. Mash the bananas with a fork or potato masher. Add in the sugars, eggs, vanilla, and use a hand mixer to blend them all together. Sprinkle in the chocolate chips, and finally, blend in the flour. Don’t overmix the flour or you’ll have some tough muffins. Fill a regular muffin tin using a 1/4 cup size ice cream scoop and bake.
By the way, I absolutely despise cupcake liners, so I just non-stick spray the heck out of the muffin tins. This recipe makes a 2 dozen muffins or 48 mini muffins, give or take a few, depending on the size of your bananas.
The virtues of honey butter
My husband introduced me to putting butter on muffins, (okay, I guess the movie Mean Girls did, too) and it’s an excellent condiment! If you have cute little jars or serving dishes, honey butter looks adorable at a table. It’s very simple to make, all you need is honey and butter. I also add flakey sea salt for crunch and balance. Slathering a warm muffin with honey butter is a little bite of heaven.
Banana Chocolate Chip Kodiak Muffins with Honey Butter
Ingredients
Banana Chocolate Chip Kodiak Muffins
- 2 cups Kodiak Flapjack & Waffle Mix Buttermilk flavor
- 3 Bananas very ripe
- 1/4 cup Butter melted
- 1/4 cup Vegetable oil Coconut oil works too
- 1/2 cup Sugar
- 1/2 cup Brown sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 cup Mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
Honey Butter
- 1/2 cup Softened butter
- 2½ tbsp Honey plus more for drizzling
- Flakey sea salt for sprinkling
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spray two 12-cup cupcake tins or a 24-mini muffin tin with non-stick spray. There is no need to use cupcake liners.
- Melt butter in a large mixing bowl in microwave. Add to it the vegetable oil and bananas.
- Mash bananas with a fork or potato masher.
- Sprinkle in sugar, brown sugar, eggs, cinnamon, and vanilla. Use a hand mixer to blend well.
- Add chocolate chips to the mixture and blend well.
- Add in the Kodiak mix and blend until just combined. Do not overmix.
- For regular muffins, drop 1/4 cup of batter into each muffin tin cup. For mini muffins, drop 1 tbsp of batter into each muffin tin cup.
- Sprinkle mini chocolate chips on the raw batter in the muffin tins.
- Bake for 28 minutes (one tin at a time--not simultaneously) for regular muffins or 18 minutes for mini muffins. Cool slightly before turning out of the tin.
- While muffins bake, combine butter and honey in a bowl. Stir vigorously with a spatula until blended. Drizzle a bit of honey on top and sprinkle with flakey sea salt. Spread on warm muffins.
