These decadent, but easy, Nutella Banana Swirl Muffins start with classically delicious banana muffins that are swirled with chocolate Nutella that bakes into the top of the muffin. The ultimate sweet breakfast treat ready in 30 minutes!
Irresistible Banana Nutella Muffins
Jorge likes bananas as much as I like sugary kid cereal, glittery eyeshadow, Friends reruns and shoe sales — all combined. No seriously, the man eats a banana every single day! So making these Nutella Banana Swirl Muffins was a no brainer. Bananas for him — Nutella for me.
The base of this recipe is a sweet, tender and perfectly moist banana muffin. Then before we bake them, we take a toothpick and swirl in a good dollop of Nutella on top of each muffin. Pop them into the oven and let them rise and bake till perfectly golden with dark, rich chocolatey swirls on top.
If you love these muffins, I have a few more “swirl muffins” I think you will enjoy as well: Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins, Pumpkin Cream Cheese Swirl Muffins and Pumpkin Nutella Swirl Muffins!
What You Will Need
This recipe for Banana Nutella Muffins is a pretty basic banana muffin, so you should have most of the ingredients already on hand in your pantry.
- Flour: Regular all purpose flour is what you will need.
- Baking Soda
- Baking Powder
- Salt
- Bananas: I recommend using over ripe bananas as they are sweeter and softer, making the perfect banana muffin base. You will need to mash the bananas before adding to the muffin batter.
- Sugar: I like to use a combination of brown sugar and granulated sugar. However, you can use all granulate or all brown sugar if you prefer.
- Egg
- Oil: I used vegetable oil, but you can use any mild baking oil you prefer.
- Vanilla Extract
- Pecans: I like to add some chopped pecans (or walnuts) for added crunch, but you can skip them if you aren’t a fan of nuts.
- Nutella: Feel free to use store bought Nutella or Homemade Nutella. Both will work!
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Recipe Tips
This is a super easy Banana Nutella Muffin recipe, but here are a few helpful tips for success:
- Ripe Bananas: I recommend using over-ripe bananas (bananas that have started to soften and have brown spots on them). If your bananas are still green or very newly yellow, I recommend waiting to use them in these muffins until they have ripened more. If you want to speed up the ripening of bananas, you can place them in a paper bag to speed up the process.
- Nutella Swirls: If your Nutella is older, it may be hard to swirl it. Heat it in the microwave for a few seconds and give it a good stir to help soften it. I use a toothpick to swirl the Nutella. I add a good size dollop (about a tablespoon) of Nutella on top of the muffin batter. Then using a toothpick, I swirl the Nutella into the top of the muffin. Watch the video in the recipe card at the bottom of the post for more visual help!
- Do Not Overfill Your Muffin Tins: Be careful to only fill your muffins 3/4th of the way full. If you over fill them, they will spill out the top of the muffin cup and make a mess with the Nutella.
How To Store
If you have any leftovers, these Banana Nutella Muffins can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days. If you want that fresh baked taste back, microwave a single muffin for 7 seconds.
These Nutella Banana Swirl Muffins are one of my absolute favorite ways to use up overripe bananas. Obviously they are tasty (hello, banana + Nutella = match made in heaven), but they also can be whipped up in under 30 minutes from start to finish. Total win-win in my book.
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Nutella Banana Swirl Muffins Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 medium over-ripe bananas, mashed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ cup chopped pecans, optional
- 1 cup nutella, or Homemade Nutella
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line muffin pan with liners.
- In a medium bowl, whisk flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt until well combined. Set aside.
- In large bowl, whisk together banana, sugar, brown sugar. Beat in egg, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. Slowly whisk in the flour mixture, until there are no lumps. Fold in pecans.
- Fill muffin tins 3/4 full. Top each muffin with about 1 teaspoon of Nutella and use a toothpick to swirl it into the batter.
- Bake muffins for 15-17 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Serve warm or store in an airtight container until ready to serve.
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This is now my family’s favorite banana muffin recipe. Everyone who tries it just goes “Wow.” When I first made them, my husband looked at me and went “You have to make this again.” They are so good in fact, I am eating one right now. Thank you for sharing this.
Very nice recipe, what came be used in place of brown sugar please? Thank you
Hi! You can use regular granulated sugar instead.
I love to make these with King Arthur GF measure for measure. The only other adjustment I make is I use equal amount of honey to replace the regular sugar. Delish!
These came out great.
I just made these tonight as I had some banana to use up and I had a bunch of Nutella. They smelled amazing and tasted great. I left out the pecans, and they still were wonderful.
Very tasty. Will definitely try them again.
Quite a tasty result. I reduced both the sugars to 1/3c each since the bananas and Nutella would also add sweetness. Very glad I did this. Used 4 very ripe bananas (as the recipe called for) which measured out to almost 1 1/2c. Again this seemed just the right amount for a moist muffin. My batter only made 12 muffins because we do like them meal size! For the 12 muffins only used slightly less than 1/2c Nutella on top – about 1tsp on each muffin and that was plenty. Definitely need to warm the Nutella to make it easier to swirl – used a fondue fork for this. The banana flavour of the muffin was terrific and almost overwhelmed the Nutella. Definitely will make these again, especially as I have another 1/2c of Nutella to use up lol.
Great suggestions!
Why don’t you just write your own recipe, Irene.
This made me lol!!!
Do these muffins freeze well?
Hi Anna! I haven’t personally tried it, but many readers have commented that they do if you wrap them individually in Saran Wrap then into a bigger ziplock freezer style bag. Hope this helps!
These were easy and So. Good. Will definitely make again.
Can’t wait to try this!
I really want to try this recipe but need the measurements in grams instead of cups, can anyone help?!
Thanks !
TRIED THIS RECIPE, it turned out so well!
Absolutely scrumptious!! I made 24 and everyone loved them! I substituted white sugar with brown sugar and added walnuts instead of pecans. Sooo good!!
Thank you for the recipe. This is really really good!!!!
Soooooo good! Nutella is tough to swirl but the taste is awesome
Does anyone have a cup measurement for the bananas, rather than 2 medium.
2 mashed bananas is equal to about 2/3 cup. Hope this helps!
Just made them for breakfast, super fast and easy
These are so good! I made my kids jumbo size for an after school snack but I think I’m going to make mini muffins using this recipe for our family road trip this summer!
So glad you enjoyed them Sarah!
OMG we can’t get enough of these muffins. So delicious. Will make them again and again
My batter didn’t come out quite as thick as yours looks in the video. Next time I’ll make sure to thicken them up a bit, otherwise the nutella just sinks and is hard to spread around. Either way, I’d recommend others try warming/melting their nutella a bit. It made it much easier to swirl!